KRaptor a Raptor free software (open source)
arcade game clone for GNU / Linux
Kraptor is another Raptor Shadow of Death free software,
open source clone
arcade game for GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows
(98, XP etc.).
The game is
not under active development anymore since 2004. Kraptor features a
powerful engine for creating quickly 2D shooter games, so the game
should be a good learning curve for people interested into creation
of arcade game shooter games.
The game just like Rafkill is built upon
DUMB sound
engine.
The game intro is quite entertaining
The intro plays
one by one the text:
Near Future:
Blobalization
Imperalizm
Corporations
Megalomaniacs
Money and Power. Slaves of the New Millenium!
After years of oppression, the slaved people of the world
have raised against their masters. You, has a mercenary pilot, has
been
contacted by the popular rebellion to fight against the forces of
oppression.
In the morning, you jump into your cockpit and start up the
engines. It's time to get airborne and start the attack. Get ready
to
scramble the scum hired by the masters. Murder for freedom is the
only way, you're on a mission, don't defraud us...
Like
Rafkill,
Kraptor is one man masterpiece created by a
free software Argentinean geek known under the Kronoman artistic
pseudonim. The game is really incredible for a one man work ... a
true masterpiece.
The game is licensed under MIT License.
Even though Kraptor is older game than Rafkill, the design is more
resembling the original Raptor game. The game music is high quality
stereo. Besides that music and fx sound effects are quite awesome.
After each level you have a Raptor like weapons "blackmarket",
where you can buy new weapons, recharge ship energy, upgrade ship
etc.
The blackmarket implementation part of the game is probably the
worst moment in the game along with the game menus (in my
view).
Talking about graphics Kraptor supports really high number of
resolutions ranging from 320x240 to 1280x1024! 640x480 is
the standard resolution in which the game is running.
Something I really like in the game is the number of multiple
weapons your ship uses during play. Even if played in Easy mode it
is taught.
There are game Saves after each level, so thanksfully you don't
have to start again from zero once death.
At the end of each level there is a huge bad BOSS you have to
destroy ;).
Installing Kraptor on Debian / Ubuntu and deb derivatives is
with:
debian:~# apt-get install kraptor
On most rpm based Linux distributions, you can install the game by
converting the deb package to rpm with alien or by building
from source from Kraptor's sourceforge page
Its interesting the game name e.g. Kraptor is also a death / grind
metal band name, (Maybe Kronoman is metalhead big fan of Kraptor
and that's how he came up with the playful name. For all the old
school game addicts there is the joystick support. I've tested it
with my Genius analogous joystick and it works fine.
The game is lacking .desktop gnome definition and after once
installed it only appears through Debian (section) GNOME menus and
not in Applications -> Games :
<
Applications -> Debian -> Games -&act; Action
-&t; Kraptor
Just like Rafkill on Debian the game exacutable binary is located
in /usr/games/kraptor . Also like with the Rafkill case when
launched the game has troubles with choppy sound and music caused
by the stupid buggy! pulseaudio
Analogously like with Rafkill's case, the work around to the
problematic music en sound is to use a little bash shell script
like:
#!/bin/bash
pulseaudio -k;
/usr/games/kraptor
pulseaudio --start;
You can dowload Kraptor
fix sound issues wrapper here
To install it on your Debian / Ubuntu and hence make the game sound
play good issue with root:
debian:~# cd /usr/bin
debian:/usr/bin# wget
http://pc-freak.net/bshscr/kraptor.wrapper.sh
...
debian:/usr/bin:# chmod +x kraptor.wrapper.sh