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Alien Pool Alien Pool is a compelling space shooter written in C++, and using SDL. It supports many interesting features: Colorful ray-traced graphics, immersive sound effects, digitally sampled music, and joystick control. Andromeda 9 Andromeda 9 is a 3D multiplayer-only action space-sim. Spaceships fight in each other in: deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, domination and race. ARYDOX (commercial) ARYDOX is a 2D vertically scrolling top-down view retro style space shooter, similar to Raptor, Tyrian and the AMIGA classic SWIV, featuring high quality graphics, CD quality music and 18 levels of adrenaline pumping action. AstroMenace (commercial) AstroMenace is a modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities. You can improve your ship configuration by installing new weapons, defensive systems, power stations and much more. AstWar Astwar is a ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other. The concept is simple but addictive. Planned features include network support and Scheme scripting via Guile. Black Hole Invaders Black Hole Invaders is a simple shooting game for X11 with Qt and XSpriteWorld++. License: GNU GPL. CGCB Cgcb is a simple game in which you are once again called to save the earth form the evil aliens. Cosmic Assault Cosmic Assault is a retro-pimpin' space shooter. Your job is to fly your spacecraft into the unknown and mow down hordes of ruthless enemies. Escape of the Unicorn Escape of the Unicorn is a space shoot'em up written using SDL. Falsoyd Falsoyd's A Little Shoot-em-up On Your Desktop. Fire At Little Ships Or You Die! An entirely plotless game for hours of frivolous and violent entertainment while working. SDL for graphics/audio. Fly Hard Fly Hard is a game resembling Thrust, but with lots of shooting and puzzles. Gammarace Gammarace is a simple game that you can jump into and out of with no instructions. It is a vector graphics shooter. Gate 88 A fast-paced, frenetic blend of real-time strategy and 2D space shooter. Gentor 915 Gentor 915 is a basic 2D space shooter. GNUfo GNUfo is a shoot'em up game (galaga like). Graviton Graviton is a 2D spaceship combat game (in the style of Gravity Force/Power and Bratwurst). The idea is to defeat the other players in combat, using the various weaponry available to you. However, the graphics are 3D and vector-based. ii-esu Your ship is surrounded by two circles. You shoot in the direction of your mouse points, and you move if the mouse pointer is outside the inner circle. Kobo Deluxe Kobo Deluxe is an enhanced version of Akira Higuchi's game XKobo. It adds sound, smoother animation, high resolution support, OpenGL acceleration (optional), an intuitive menu driven user interface, joystick support and other features. Kobo Deluxe uses SDL for graphics, sound and input, which makes it possible to run the game on pretty much anything. KOPS KOPS is a two-dimensional gravitational shoot'yer'friend game in 640x480x256 graphics mode. The original version was made back in 1996. Max Fighter In Max Fighter you need to keep control of your spaceship as you go ever deeper into the asteroid field and the gameplay reaches breakneck speed. Shoot asteroids and containers and collect power-ups, shield energy and special weapons. And last but not least - beware of the pirates! No Gravity No Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more! Operation Blacksun 2 Operation Blacksun 2 is an overhead spaceshooter with support for online multiplayer experience. Phavon Phavon aims at the creation of a 2D vertical scrolling progressive-weapon shoot 'em up (following in some way the style of the old-time classic Amiga game Xenon II). Map and level editors will be released, as well. Protector Protector is a defender clone. You fly a single ship against a suspiciously familiar Evil Empire. Bugs, lawyers, bundles, red tape and even more evil creatures will try to stop you. PySpaceWar PySpaceWar is an open-source game, loosely inspired by Spacewar, Gravity Wars, and a bit by Star Control (I and II). Two ships duel in a gravity field. Gravity doesn't affect the ships themselves (which have spanking new anti-gravity devices), but it affects missiles launced by the ships. Raj Horizon Raj Horizon is a 3d subspace style goal based team deathmatch. rRootage rRootage is a Linux port of the side-scrolling game rRootage. Sable Sable is a frantic 3d space shooter inspired by games such as After Burner and Space Harrier. You pilot a ship through an obstacle-laden landscape and attack or evade swarms of enemies. Scum of the Universe Scum of the Universe is a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy. On one side, it's a classic vertical-scrolling space shooter game. On the other side, it is an adventure and strategy. ships ships is a space shooting game for one or two players. You can take weapons from enemy ships. Your energy is regenerating. Shooting Star Shooting Star is a topdown shooter made especially for the Assembly 2003 gamedev-compo. Game works on Linux and Windows. Sources included, we are using the GPL license. Space Maze Space Maze is a shooting game in which you'll have to go around several mazes built in space to save our galaxy from an evil alien named "Fortress". To get to the place of Fortress, you must collect three keys to open the door. Keys are located and guarded in three mazes each. Space Renegades: The Series (commercial) Space Renegades is an arcade style vertical space shooter that will give you goose bumps! It also has several tracks of toe tapping original music to keep the action going throughout both games that are bundled in this space shooter package. spacerider spacerider is a 2D space-shooter written in C++, using the SDL. SpaceWarpy SpaceWarpy is a version of the classic game SpaceWar. It's written in Python and the Pygame library. SpaceWarpy is released under the GNU GPL license. Sparklet Sparklet is a multiplayer networking client-server, top-down view, space shooting game for 2 or more remote players. Different maps, space ships and game modes are available. It is written in pure ansi c++ and runs well on linux and Windows. Star Control TimeWarp Star Control TimeWarp is an open source clone/sequel to the epic cross-genre game Star Control II. Currently it includes only a combat portion, although there are some plans to expand it to include an epic adventure. The plot of such an adventure would not have anything to do with the name "TimeWarp". stardork stardork is a console based game where (.)'s represent stars and are randomly placed on the screen. (X) represents your space ship and you move in in all directions, including diagonally, to position yourself to shoot the goal (@). You can also shoot missles in all directions. StarQuest - Sole Surviver StarQuest: Sole Survivor is a starship combat game. You are the guardian of the solar system with the duty to protect earth from invading aliens. Stellar Duel Stellar Duel is a SVGA space ship game which features 640x480x256 graphics, full screen 2D game play, 3D rendered graphics, and sound. Target Acquired Target Acquired is a top-scrolling space shooter which uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer. Torus Trooper Torus Trooper is an abstract shooter where you race against the clock as you pass though tunnels. Tumiki Fighters Tumiki Fighters is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up where you can salvage enemy ships, attaching them to your ship to give more firepower. TuxFighter TuxFighter is an asteroid-like shooter written in python/pygame. Twisted Shootout Twisted Shootout is a 2D shooter game that take place in the far future. It is inspired by the proprietary game Metal Slugs. The aim of Twisted Shootout is to replicate the fun in that game. XPilot XPilot is a X11 based multiplayer space combat game. You guide a triangle shaped space craft through a two-dimensional cave-like environment. Your vehicle has a very simple steering system: a rear mounted engine provides forward propulsion, while two thrusters (one mounted on each side) are used to rotate. The space you fly through has no resistance, but plenty of gravity. Learning to fly is one of the most challenging aspects of XPilot. Yar's Revenge Yar's Revenge is a rather wierd shoot-em-up game that originated on the Atari 2600. It's more fun than it looks. ZeroPointII ZeroPointII will feature the same retro game themes and fast action style ov play, whilst improving on the original zero point game in every way.
