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Hedgewars - a turn-based strategy game

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This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play—hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn-based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons—sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!

Each player controls a team of up to 8 hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game.

To destroy your foes you can use one out of over 40 weapons! Launch bazookas or homing bees, drop mines, dynamite or explosive rubber ducks, throw grenades or watermelon bombs, poison them with stinky cheese, send them flying with a baseball bat, and much more!

Most weapons cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. Hedgehogs can die by drowning, being thrown off either side of the arena, or when their health is reduced to zero.

Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the rope or parachute, to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.

Getting started

For complete beginners we recommend to play in singleplayer mode first. Start with the Basic Movement Training found in the training menu. Proceed with the other training missions. After completing the training, try to play some quick matches against the computer (also found in the singleplayer menu). Hedgewars has many weapons, so play a few matches to get a better feeling for them.

In-depth information about the game can be found online:

Default controls (excerpt)

The most important default controls are:

For the full list, go to the Hedgewars settings. Also read the weapon tooltips for weapon-specific controls.

Special controls

These are lesser-known controls of Hedgewars, they are based on your configured controls:

System requirements

For PC or Mac:

Hedgewars has been ported to other operating systems in the past. Check out https://hedgewars.org/download.html for the latest information.

Gamepads are supported partially (only in-game, not in the main menu).

Installation instructions

See the INSTALL.md file.

Or see our wiki at https://hedgewars.org/kb/BuildingHedgewars.

Source code

Our main repository is located at https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/ using Mercurial as DVCS. A Git repository is also available (mirrored daily) at https://github.com/hedgewars/hw.

Contribute

If you see a bug or have any suggestion please use the official bug tracker at https://hedgewars.org/bugs or the integrated feedback button.

If you want to help or get to know the sources better you can do that with some easy tasks from https://hedgewars.org/kb/TODO. We also have an extensive API in Lua to customize your adventures. See our wiki at https://hedgewars.org/kb/LuaAPI.

If you know your way through the code feel free to send a patch or open a pull request. The best Lua scripts get released in the official DLC page and later integrated in the next version.

Licence and credits

This game is free software (“free” as in “freedom”). Source code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2; images and sounds are distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence version 1.2. See the COPYING file for the full text of the licenses.

Copyright 2004-2018 Andrey Korotaev unC0Rr@gmail.com and others. Click on the Hedgewars logo in the main menu and read the CREDITS text file for a more complete list of authors.

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