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This was fun! Anyone else feel this is kind of a real-time Worms 2D?

Wonderful to see "Download for Linux" on the frontpage, even better to see it's available in the Arch repos.

Where is the donation button, though?

Yeah it does look like RT Worms 2D but I think the real first game of this genre was Liero http://www.liero.be/ Pixelated but fast and responsive as console games (ex SNES). I have spent countless hours in the past playing Liero with my brother on the same monitor sharing a keyboard. Fun times :)

Would that still work in modern keyboards without N-key rollover?

Yes. Sometimes, laptops with crappy keyboards have issues, but a standard keyboard should work just fine if the right player uses CTRL, SHIFT, ENTER and the arrow keys (those are usually connected with an extra wire, increasing the possible amount of keys pressed simultaneously.) Of course, it depends on the keyboard, I'm sure you can find one that's particularly bad and doesn't work well.

There's also an open source Liero: http://www.openlierox.net/

OpenLieroX is not Liero. There is an open source Liero on the site (I'd suggest https://gitorious.org/lierolibre at the moment).

Thanks for mentioning that game! :) (I'm one of the core developers, from our small team of mainly 3 devs, where all of us are currently busy with other things.)

A while ago, I also added support to load TeeWorlds levels. Also, Gusanos level/scripting support was added. (Gusanos was another Liero-clone.)

After all, the concept of TeeWorlds and OpenLieroX aren't too different, except that TW is played with mouse and OLX purely with keyboard. Also, the rope is much longer in OLX and there is destructible terrain.

Liero is distinct though in that it's balanced for 1v1. This creates tremendous differences in terms of the cat-and-mouse mechanics, the long reload times, the tricks to digging and covering your exit.

Once you switch to a deathmatch-style, the time-intensive mechanics of cat-and-mouse fall apart because DM requires you aggressively chase the next kill above all else. This makes them very different games.

We removed the donation button because we don't really have any running costs to cover.

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