Awesome
AstroMenace
AstroMenace on YouTube, a video is worth a thousand words.
Immerse into a decisive battle against tons of cunning foes, face the terrifying bosses and protect your homeland throughout 15 diverse levels of the game. The hardcore gameplay of AstroMenace, packed with pure non-stop action, will become a full scale test for your basic instinct of survival.
<p align="center"> <img src="./share/preview1.png" alt="preview"/> </p>The game provides a wide variety of armaments and weapon upgrades for discharging the retributive wrath upon the hordes of enemies, besides it has a great number of improvements for enhancing the defensive abilities of your spaceship. Collect money during the combat and invest them into turning your spaceship into an ultimate weapon of mass destruction.
<p align="center"> <img src="./share/preview2.png" alt="preview"/> </p>More information and screenshots could be found at AstroMenace website.
Installation
Installer for Windows could be found in Releases.
Almost all popular Linux distros already have a stable version of the game in their repositories. Install the "astromenace" package with your distro's package manager. We do not provide packages for any Linux anymore, contact maintainers of your Linux distro.
Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives
sudo apt-get install astromenace
OpenSuse
sudo zypper install astromenace
Fedora
sudo yum install astromenace
Gentoo
sudo emerge astromenace
FlatPak
AstroMenace is also available as a FlatPak package from FlatHub.
Build (Windows)
- Install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org (follow step-by-step instruction on first page in order to install MSYS2)
For Windows 32bit build. Start MSYS2
> MSYS2 MINGW32
terminal session from Start
menu. Install all necessary packages and download prebuilt dependencies:
cd ~/
pacman -S git unzip mingw-w64-i686-{toolchain,make,cmake,ninja}
wget https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace-windows-prebuilt-dependencies/releases/download/latest/prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit.zip
unzip ./prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit.zip
For Windows 64bit build. Start MSYS2
> MSYS2 MINGW64
terminal session from Start
menu. Install all necessary packages and download prebuilt dependencies:
cd ~/
pacman -S git unzip mingw-w64-x86_64-{toolchain,make,cmake,ninja}
wget https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace-windows-prebuilt-dependencies/releases/download/latest/prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit.zip
unzip ./prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit.zip
- Clone git with latest source files
git clone https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace.git
- Compile game binary (game data file will be created automatically):
mkdir ~/astromenace/build
cd ~/astromenace/build
For Windows 32bit build:
cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDEPS_PATH=$PWD/../../prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit
For Windows 64bit build:
cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDEPS_PATH=$PWD/../../prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit
cmake --build . --target install
- Create desktop shortcut or start AstroMenace
~/astromenace/bin/astromenace
Note, in case of default MSYS2 path, all AstroMenace binary files will be stored into folder C:\msys64\home\user\astromenace\bin
. You can copy this files into folder you want and remove MSYS2 from your system.
Build (macOS, Linux, BSD)
Build dependencies: libSDL2 (ver 2.0.5+), libopenal (ver 1.0+), libalut (ver 1.0+), libogg (ver 1.1+), libvorbis (ver 1.1+), freetype (ver 2.1.6+)
The easy way to get up to date AstroMenace on your computer:
1) Make sure all necessary packages with development headers installed in your system:
gcc or clang or any compiler with full ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (C++11) support, cmake, make, git, libsdl2, libogg, libvorbis, openal, alut (freealut), freetype2
For macOS:
Download and install "Command Line Tools for Xcode" or "Xcode". Install HomeBrew package manager: https://brew.sh/
brew install ninja cmake sdl2 git libogg libvorbis freealut freetype
For Ubuntu/Mint/Debian:
sudo apt-get install g++ cmake make ninja-build libsdl2-dev libogg-dev \
git libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libalut-dev libfreetype6-dev
For Mageia:
sudo urpmi gcc-c++ ninja cmake make git libsdl2.0-devel libogg-devel \
libvorbis-devel libopenal-devel libfreealut-devel freetype2-devel
For OpenSuse:
sudo zypper install gcc-c++ ninja cmake make libSDL2-devel libogg-devel \
git libvorbis-devel openal-soft-devel freealut-devel freetype2-devel
For Fedora:
sudo yum install gcc-c++ cmake make git SDL2-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel \
ninja-build openal-soft-devel freealut-devel freetype-devel linux-libertine-fonts
For FreeBSD:
sudo pkg_add -r -v gcc cmake git ninja sdl20 libogg libvorbis openal freealut freetype2
2) Clone git with latest source files
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace.git
3) Compile game binary (game data file will be created automatically)
mkdir ~/astromenace/build
cd ~/astromenace/build
cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build . --target install
4) Create desktop shortcut or start AstroMenace
~/astromenace/bin/astromenace