Mutant Storm by PomPom is a retro Robotron-alike, in the spirit of Windows' Crimsonland and Phobia series, done in 3d madness and with awesome gameplay. It's been celebrated by a few gaming sites, most notably Edge; unfortunately a commercial release, but most definitely worth the $20. I'm submitting the ebuild I made for myself and a few friends. The prefered category would be games-action. Unsure about the Gentoo policy for such packages, I'm requesting inclusion in the official tree on the following grounds: - the demo is already in the tree; - there are loads of commercial titles, as well as commercial apps there; - maybe not a lot of people will actually use this ebuild, but the community is quite alive and there are lots of user-made levels around, besides, shareware games startups don't usually support Linux so PomPom deserves us to support back. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 50865 [details] the ebuild
Created attachment 50866 [details] digest Digest provided, since probably the devs aren't going to buy it. Though they really really ought to ;) .
games-action/mutantstorm-demo
WHAT about the demo??
Spanky, the keyword is "demo" - it often means "less than fully functional" and "not all content included". Once people try the demo, they pay for the full game - and then they want an ebuild to do its magic. Cease and desist. Gentoo NEEDS this game.
Just curious... what's with all the ${target} stuff?
eh, i didnt read the original report ... thought this was about the demo feedback: - whats with the ugly newlines all over the top of the ebuild ? - no point in doing all the ugly stuff with $PACK - pkg_setup doesnt run games_pkg_setup like it should - drop the USE=bundled-sdl ... binary-only packages should always use bundled libraries when available - wtf with $target like wolf said ?
Created attachment 50981 [details] next ebuild.. - Pointless ugly stuff with $PACK was there to make changing the base source cleaner, since ppl may have (bought) other tarballs but these still have similarly structured content; removed - games_pgk_setup now there, sorry - reversed the logic of bundled-sdl, now no-bundled-sdl -- the bundled version screws the game on my machine but not on the other - $target was a shorthand for ${GAMES_PREFIX_OPT}/${PN}, removed - removed both offending newlines; just for the record, gentoo-syntax made me do it! -- I noticed you didn't read it. Maybe try Ritalin? Ritalin good, make ADHD cornered. If I missed a neat do*-style function that does recursive copy please correct. Hope we're beginning to approach the ever-elusive Gentoo standard of bash scripting.
- no point in having src_unpack since the default will handle it fine - dont do `dosym` to create the exe in $GAMES_BINDIR, use `games_make_wrapper`
src_unpack isn't needed. error check the cp and doexe (...|| die "...") inherit games after eutils don't einfo "", just einfo take out the empty DEPEND line
Created attachment 51000 [details] next ebuild... Mmkay..?
I suggest removing the no-bundled-sdl thing completely... also, since none of us have a copy of this game, are you willing to be a co-maintainer for it? We'll also need a copy of the POMPOM license file.
nah, the license is already in portage as part of the demo
I am getting an error when trying to play /opt/mutantstorm/mutantstorm-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory curl is however installed
Website has changed. Also looks like there's no Mutant Storm now, and sequels (?!) are not available for PC right now.
Hard to believe it's been almost 14 years... :)
