Purple Martians
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
A really cool platform game like Bubble Bobble, Lode Runner, or Super Mario.
Its completely free. (released under the zlib license)
Features:
- many fun and challenging levels
- LAN networked game mode with up to eight players
- many unique enemies and items
- bombs you can carry and throw
- rockets you can ride and steer
- movable lifts you can ride
- switches that change blocks solid and back
- springs that let you jump very high
- keys that open locked blocks
- doors to transport you to other places in the level
- cloners that copy enemies and items
- podzilla plants that pop up and shoot at you
- helpful pop-up messages to help you figure stuff out
- user definable setup for keyboard and/or joystick
- homemade sound effects
- a music track by Russel Hoy
- fancy scrolling help screens with images and animations
- the game can handle almost any screen or window size
- very smooth moving graphics
- zoom in and out, fullscreen or windowed while game running
- you can choose between 15 different colors for your player
- nice graphical level selector
And the best feature of all: The Level Editor to make your own levels!
If you create new levels, please send them to me.
The only levels I get to play are ones that I created myself, and how challenging could that be?
System Requirements (or systems that I tested it on):
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 10
ubuntu-16.04.4-desktop-amd64
ubuntu-17.10.1-desktop-amd64
linuxmint-18.3-cinnamon-64bit
elementaryos-0.4.1-stable.20180214
antergos-18.4-x86_64
CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1708
CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1708
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6
The netgame works identically across all platforms
See the help file for more details, or email me. (mweiss001@gmail.com)
If you play it, please take a few minutes to send me some feedback.
Send your comments to:
mweiss001@gmail.com
Email me your new levels as e-mail attachments.
Created with:
Allegro 5.2.4
MinGW-w64 7.2.0
Code Blocks 17.12
libnet-0.10.11
zlib-1.2.8
Install instructions
The game does not need to be installed.
Simply extract and run pm.exe.
Nothing is stored or accessed outside of the games folder.
Download
Development log
- Version 7.05 releasedMay 19, 2018
- Version 7.04 releasedMay 04, 2018
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In the file called readme_linux:
The executable is called 'pm'
But you can't run it directly until the libraries are set up.
Option 1:
Use the script 'pml' to run the game:
The contents of pml are: "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./linux_libs ./pm"
Option 2:
Copy the contents of /linux_libs to /usr/lib
Then you can run 'pm' without needing the script
Currently only 2 libraries are needed:
liballegro_monolith.so.5.2
libdumb.so.1
>error while loading shared libraries: liballegro_monolith.so.5.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Debian 9Great idea, I wanted to adapt this into a manic miner multiplayer style platformer if thats ok?