Hello, and welcome to the Freedroid page.

FreedroidRPG is an open source role playing game

THE CLASSICAL FREEDROID: Freedroid is a clone of the classic game

The game tells the story of a world destroyed by a conflict between robots and

"Paradroid" on Commodore 64 with some improvements and extensions to

their human masters. Play as Tux in a quest to save the world from the

the classic version. 

murderous rebel bots who know no mercy. You get to choose which path you wish

to follow, and freedom of choice is everywhere in the game.

In this game, you control a robot, depicted by a small white ball with

FreedroidRPG features a real time combat system with melee and ranged weapons,

a few numbers within an interstellar spaceship consisting of several

fairly similar to the proprietary game Diablo. There is an innovative system of

decks connected by elevators. 

programs that can be run in order to take control of enemy robots, alter their

behavior, or improve one's characteristics. You can use over 50 different kinds

of items and fight countless enemies on your way to your destiny. An advanced

dialog system provides story background and immersive role playing situations.

The aim of the game is to destroy all enemy robots, depicted by small

The game is complete, fully playable, and can provide about 10 hours of fun. It

black balls with a few numbers, by either shooting them or seizing

is still being actively developed, and help is welcome in many areas. People

control over them by creating connections in a short subgame of

having - or trying to acquire - programming, map editing, or writing skills

electric circuits. 

will find FreedroidRPG to be an exciting, fast-moving project in which they can

fully express their creativity.

Development of this game is now complete.  The final version came out

in august 2003 and runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Sharp Zaurus and even that

strange Windows wannabe of an operating system.  Thanks to all who 

helped.

Minor fixes and maintainance will of course still continue though...

FREEDROID RPG:  The Freedroid RPG is an extension/modification of the

classical freedroid engine into an RPG.  The main differences to the

classical version are as follows: 

* The Tux is the main character of the rpg.  He is not displayed as a

   ball like in Freedroid but rather as an animated character, while

   other droids and humans in the game are still represented as the balls

   with some number or code in them. 

* Dialogs and chatting with friendly droids and humans:

   Multiple-choice menus and voice samples (with subtitles for those

   without sound). 

* Melee weapons, armour and other items to be equipped have been

   added. 

* An automap feature was added.

* Saving and loading of games.

* A shop to trade things.

* Controls are different:  Mouse can be used to do everything.

   Joystick is not supported for moving around any more. 

* The archive size (including sound samples) is about 10 times as big

   as for the classical version.  I'd like to appologize to all 56K modem

   owners at this point. 

  <upstream>

<use>

    <remote-id type="sourceforge">freedroid</remote-id>

  <flag name="devtools">Compile the additional dev tools</flag>

  </upstream>

  <flag name="profile">Enable the integration of the ingame real-time profiler</flag>

  <flag name="sanitize">Compile with address sanitizer</flag>

</use>