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Torus Trooper – Cool 3D Tunnel Speed Up Spaceship game for Linux

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

Torus Trooper linux tunnel 3d fast pace speed up game screenshot

Whether you're looking for a game to kill some time and enjoy the old "spaceship shoot and run games" check out Torus Trooper.
Originally game was developed for MS Windows and is remake of an old Atari Arcade Game Tempest.

Those who played Tempest know well that this game was revolution for its time and probably remember also a similar world famous Space Duel game.

Arcade atari old scool tunnel game tempest one of atari pre 3d game classics

Atari's Tempest Arcade game

The objective of Torus Trooper is mega simple as in most arcade games. You're speeding up through a tunnel all time with a spaceship with the only goal to kill as many enemies  as you can and survive as longer as possible. Playing the game you can get some memories of demoscene tracked music, future crew Second Reality / Unreal demos. Game was created by ABA GAMES company, authors Tumiki Fighters and GunRoar another 2 nice 2D Linux arcade games.

TUMIKI Fighters the boss level 1, 2d linux arcade game classic

Tumiki Fighters

Gunroar another cool linux arcade 2d game

GunRoar

Probably best thing of Torus Trooper is its nice graphics and superb demoscene like soundtrack.
I truely love the pace of the game, raising up the player adrenaline in minutes.
To install in a bundle Torus-Trooper Tumiki Fighters and Gunroar on Debian / Ubuntu Linux run the usual:

debian:~# apt-get install --yes torus-trooper tumiki-fighters gunroar
...

There is also a variation of torus-trooper called Torus Trooper, install and give it a try as well;

debian:~# apt-get install -yes torus-trooper-pure
...

In my humble opinion Torus-trooper is among golden games every Linux gamer should have installed on his Desktop.
Enjoy 🙂
 

Torus Trooper, Tumiki Fighters and Starfighter one of the best Arcade native Linux games made ever

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

I’m not a big gamer this days, however every now and then I do like playing some fast pace arcade game to cheer up.
The arcade games for Linux are really lot, however most of them are too boring and has a notable bad graphic design or a game play, here is why I decided to blog about two really worthy games to be noted and placed among best arcade games produced so far.

Below you will find a quick game review of the arcade game Linux trio Torus Trooper, Tumiki Fighters and Starfighter

1.Let me begin with Torus Trooper

Torus trooper is an awesome fast pace japanese game a bit in the tradition of the good old Star Wars racer the graphics of course as with most Linux games are not that awesome as with Star Wars racer, however the game is a really nice one 3D tunnel shooter, especially if you’d like to play half an hour to relax from a heavy strained day. In the game you have a spaceship and you have to navigate through a rotating tunnels and kill the enemy’s spaceship, there is quite a lot of action involved and this makes the game really wonderful to lift up your adrenaline 🙂

While navigating though the tunnels and killing enemies you can switch up and down your spaceship acceleration,
you have a limited time for which you have to complete each of the game levels, whether killing a series of enemies
would win you some bonus seconds usually if you get a bonus time an extra +15 seconds is added to your time limit you’re supposed to complete the level.
On certain scores also can grant you extra time bonus of (+15) seconds. If you get killed then a (-15 seconds) are deducted from your level completion time limit.

As every arcade in the game each level has a boss (a base) you have to destroy dependantly the time interval in which you succeed in destroying the end level boss would add up either (+30) or (+45) seconds to your overall game time limit.
The enemy will show up after you kill a previously game defined number of enemy’s spaceship, the remaining enemy’s spaceship to be destroyed is (displayed at the right up corner) of the game.

Below I present you with the screenshot taken from Torus Trooper ‘s official website and hopefully it will give you a brief idea what to expect if you desire to give the game a go on your GNU/Linux.

Torus Trooper Linux game screenshot

The game installation on Debian is pretty straight forward is available as a debian package to install just copy paste in your root terminal the:

debian:~# apt-get install torus-trooper

Now all left is to start up the game in full-screen mode by typing as a non-privileged user:

debian:~$ torus-trooper -fullscreen

What annoyed me a bit was the fact that I couldn’t find a fullscreen option in after starting up the game without the -fullscreen option. But heh, let us not forget we are on Linux, things to be a bit commandish 🙂
Hopefully in future releases of the game (if there are such), the fullscreen will be added as a possible option to be selected from within the game itself.

Another very notable thing about the Torus Trooper game is the addicting music and game play I belive is the real charm of arcade games.

2. TUMIKI Fighters

Is another great japanese arcade game, it’s an interesting fact that both TUMIKI Fighters and Torus Trooper are created by a single Japanese man Kenta Cho

Mr. Kenta Cho has done quite a good job especially if we consider the fact that he is the only one that has developed this two wonderful games.

TUMIKI Fighters‘s also very dynamic, however it’s more a 2D like arcade, each of the ships within the game are actually a toy like (Lego like).

What I find unique about TUMIKI Fighters as a game is the fact that whenever you kill an enemy toy ship you’re able to assimilate the destoying ship before your eyes.
As described in TUMIKI Fighters official game web site ,
“Stick more enemies and become much stronger.”

In other words the more ships you are able to gain to your basis ship the stronger your ship becomes.

Below I present you with a screenshot to get an idea what to expect if you consider installing and playing the game.

TUMIKI Fighters game screenshot Linux

The screenshot is a bit messed and the game looks a way better in reality so I urge you to take few seconds to install and try it.
If you’re on Debian just issue command:

debian:~# apt-get install tumiki-fighters

To start up the game in fullscreen in a similar fashion to Torus Trooper you will have to pass the -fullscreen command option next to the main game binary.

So:

debian:~$ tumiki-fighters -fullscreen

Will start the game in fullscreen.

3. Finally I’ll tell you a few words about Project Starfighter

Project Starfighter is I a class above both Tumiki Fighters and Torus Trooper this is most probably because it was developed by a developers group called Parallel Realities
If you’re a Linux game developer, it’s very likely that checking their website will provide you with a number of precious articles on Game development e.g. making many of the developed Parallel Realities developed games as well as game source code.
Parallel Realities has so far developed a lot of games, they’ve done a great job that each of the games has Linux / Unix ports.

I find Project Starfighter a real game with a class for the Linux platform. Below I provide you with a screenshot from a battle between your own battle ship and an enemy boss:

Project StarFighter on Linux battle scene with a game bossSome of the game includes features (as taken directly from the game’s website) are:

  • 26 missions over 4 star systems
  • Primary and Secondary Weapons (including a laser cannon and a charge weapon)
  • A weapon powerup system
  • Missions with Primary and Secondary Objectives
  • A Variety of Missions (Protect, Destroy, etc)
  • 13 different music tracks
  • Boss battles

Mentioning about the game music here is the time to tell you that the game music of Project Starfighter is among the best game soundtracks I’ve ever heard in my life!
The music is quite much a demoscene like so I’m quite sure if you play the game you will truly enjoy the wonderful game music.
The game would require you to have a succesfully configured and running SDL library on your Linux, along with that you will have to have a properly installed video drivers otherwise the game would run up very slowly.

The game is available for a numerous computer OS platforms including even Microsoft Windows 🙂

Again we the Debian users are favourable because the game has been packaged in a deb for a Debian platform to install the game on Debian GNU/Linux invoke in your root terminal:

debian:~# apt-get install starfighter

The game is started either by navigating to GNOME / KDE menus games menus or directly via a terminal by executing:

debian:~$ starfither

The game has one major drawback, it’s difficulty level is a real killing one, you have to play at least a couple of games until you’re able to pass level 1.
I’ve never ever passed level 2, if the developers work out the too complex game level of difficulty then I believe the game will be a way more addictive.

Anyways each of the 3 reviewed games Torus Trooper, TUMIKI Fighters and Project Starfighter are really addictive and makes the ordinary sys admin / programmer life a bit more enjoyable 🙂