This is a space shoot arcade game. Download: http://gridwars.marune.de/ Homepage of the author: http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/ More info about the game: http://happypenguin.org/show?Grid%20Wars%202 I guess it can't be added to portage. There is no source code available and no license for it. However it's so impressive and addictive that I'd to make an ebuild. I've found a little problem while making the ebuild: the application is creating a hiscores.dat file the first time it's run but it can't be written. I've worked around this by touching that file in the ebuild and giving proper permission but that's ugly because It's creates an empty file an the hiscores are ugly until you play 10 times at least. Well, any advice on this or the ebuild will be appreciated. Of course, I suggest games-arcade for this one although we can't include it ;)
Created attachment 98503 [details] games-arcade/gridwars-2.ebuild
Not sure if it's a good idea, have you seen author's homepage? Sorry folks... I've had to remove the link to the download. Email from BizarreCreations: "We're beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales via Microsoft now and are beginning a process to begin to more robustly protect our copyright and intellectual property. Therefore, I'd like to ask you in an amicable fashion to stop infringing our IP and pull the game 'Grid Wars' from the internet for download. I hope you understand and are able to do this without us having to take further steps."
Well it looks like downloads are back again, if they did disappear they are back. http://gridwars.marune.de/bin/gridwars_win.zip http://gridwars.marune.de/bin/gridwars_osx_ppc.zip http://gridwars.marune.de/bin/gridwars_lin.zip
It really depends on who came out with it first, and i'd say that microsoft was second.
Actually, upon doing some more research the game MS produced came in 2003, but it looks like they came to some sort of agreement or something because the notice is gone.
Notice is still here: http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/
Ah okay, I was looking at gridwares.marune.de Technically you could say Microsoft and Bizarre copied Atari as a game called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Duel exists with a lot of similarities. Atari even provide a free Java based version on their website. http://games.atari.com/playgames/arcade/spaceduel/spaceduel_400.jsp Also found this article: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/11/bizarre-tries-to-stop-geometry-wars-clone/ As it is it's for a different target of operating systems, XP/OSX/Linux and it has that powerup feature apparently not available in Geometry Wars. Got to love the stupidity of this situation :P
gridwares.marune.de is not the official site. Also 5.4 is the latest version, that's an old build of 4.1, it also used propiatory BlitzMax for compilation. Ebuild is wrong version its gridwars 2.
Had a chat to one of the people in the beta team. Basically I'd not support this package for two reasons: 1. no free compiler toolchain (any sourcecode you have is useless the trial versions for Windows and OSX are about 10 versions behind purchased versions) 2. they seem to have this nazi idea that you should make everyone pay for it, rather than doing something similar to microsoft when i suggested how they have Visual Studio 2005 (which you have to pay for) and of course Visual Studio 2005 Express, (just includes a compiler toolchain) In actual fact the beta tester from their beta team blocked all aim transmissions with me after this suggestion on the grounds "how would they make money then"
as for the first comment about no source code. There is: http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm except that it uses the BlitzMax language and the only way to compile this code is to 'buy' their compiler, even if for a single purpose.
Created attachment 165818 [details] gridwars-2.ebuild Changed dependencies and added ~amd64 architecture.
"gridwars 9.3.2006" on homepage - is it last release date?
