[HN Gopher] Liero can be played in browser now, for those who re...
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Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember
Author : farseer
Score : 97 points
Date : 2020-04-25 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.webliero.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.webliero.com)
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Liero was amazing as a computer lab game in high school. I think
| it fit on a floppy so you could share it easily. And it bypassed
| our locked down school computers because it just ran without
| being installed or whatnot.
|
| I'm also impressed how well this ran on my budget phone. I can't
| play but spectating was butter smooth.
| Pxtl wrote:
| There's a nice multiplayer online open-source reimplementation of
| it called OpenLieroX.
| farseer wrote:
| Would definitely give that a try, Liero has fond highschool
| memories for me.
| albertzeyer wrote:
| Thanks for mentioning that. I'm one of the main developers of
| it.
|
| I feel a bit sad that I rarely have time to work on it anymore.
| It has evolved into kind of an infinite project. After the
| merge of the technical very nice Gusanos engine (another open-
| source Liero clone, heavily scripted by Lua, with lots of
| advanced graphics effects) into OpenLieroX, it has a lot of
| nice features now, but the code is somewhat bloated (although
| this merge has progressed really far, and was done on a very
| low level). E.g. I would like to get rid of most of the old
| stuff totally and move the whole logic over to Lua. The network
| engine is another part which probably needs a better more
| modern reimplementation. The rendering also could probably be
| improved a lot. It's all software pixels, via SDL, with lots of
| graphics effects, and that's slow.
|
| OpenLieroX homepage: http://www.openlierox.net/ Code:
| http://github.com/albertz/openlierox/
|
| Official and Open Liero: http://www.liero.be/
| jml7c5 wrote:
| >Liero is a video game for MS-DOS, first released by Finnish
| programmer Joosa Riekkinen in 1998. The game has been described
| as a real-time version of Worms. [...] Inspired itself by the
| earlier game MoleZ, Liero provided inspiration for the later
| games Soldat and Noita.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero
| pierrec wrote:
| I'm impressed at how many decent players are in there. Liero
| controls take a while to get used to, so I opened this thinking
| it would be a total noobfest. I'm mostly thrown off by the
| controls being different from what I was used to.
| Geee wrote:
| Somehow I was instantly able to remember the controls almost
| perfectly although it has been 20 years since I've played it.
| emilfihlman wrote:
| You can remap them!
| gabbie wrote:
| This has been Ronny's dream since the exit. Incredible. Thank you
| world:)
| Geee wrote:
| This seems to be an exact replica of the original game. Great
| job!
| therein wrote:
| Incredibly well done. Takes me back to my childhood. Seamless
| multiplayer experience as well, great job.
| rwnspace wrote:
| Anyone here remember LieroM8/Lierokit? Such good times hacking
| away at this game in year 8 with my mate. There's nothing quite
| like an automatic bananabomb-blunderbus and low friction/gravity
| to speed the game up...
| gliptic wrote:
| Glad you liked it. It was fun to figure out all the ways you
| could mod the game too. /Author of LieroKit
| rwnspace wrote:
| Thank you. Your software is a big part of some of my fondest
| memories :)
| dusted wrote:
| oooh yea!
| emilfihlman wrote:
| Liero is THE game to find out who the actual MASTER is.
| hughes wrote:
| Oh my god, I've been wanting this for literally 20 years.
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