Alien Arena 2007 released!

Irritant · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

Alien Arena 2007 is a fast paced, retro sci-fi themed game jam packed with features such as 37 maps, 5 game modes, 6 game mutators, 10 player characters, 8 weapons(each with an alternate firing mode), and the Galaxy front end that includes a server browser, IRC client, stats lookup, and a buddy list to keep tabs on your favorite players. New for this release is Team Core Assault, a team based mode with frantic action and speed, a dozen brand new maps rich with color and detail, and enormous enhancements to the codebase that improves speed, security, and stability. Enhancements such as weapons stats and winner's podiums add a little new flavor to the game experience. Now at version 6.0, the CRX engine now includes real-time shadows, vastly improved dynamic lighting, more efficient particles and weapon effects, improved shaders, lensflares, fog, music control, and optimizations to make it sleeker and smoother than ever before. With so much content and code being revamped, Alien Arena 2007 bears little resemblance to it's predecessor.

Alien Arena also has a large community that has made available a huge amount of add-on resources, such as maps, models, skins, and other nifty enhancements that are easily applied to the game if the user so wishes. The community can be easily accessed through the Galaxy front end, using it's chat interface, and is always eager to help with any questions or problems running the game. Player stats are globally tracked and accessed either through Galaxy or via the Alien Arena homepage. A number of clans are registered, and each week a tournament is held on Sunday, 6pm Eastern time. Players are advised to show up fifteen minutes beforehand to get the server password. Ladders and cups are in the process of being organized, and more information will be made available soon.

visit http://red.planetarena.org for more details and to download the game!

ravalox · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 217

Rock on! I've been waiting for this as I just got a video card capable of playing it.

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

i wait for an ebuild...

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Ebuilds are available

baigsabeeh · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:01 am Post subject:

Would this go into a local overlay or inserted into the official Portage?
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Use a local overlay.

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

it requires xorg 7???
is a radeon 9200se with free software drivers and a sempron 2500+ enough for the game?

baigsabeeh · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:

Can someone tell me how to use the eBuild? I've done local ebuilds before but this time it's bein' a pain.

Syntax is wrong or something like that.
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baigsabeeh · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

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baigsabeeh · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject:

I was able to install it. Seems I put it in the alienarena directory, not alienarena-bin.

I don't have any sound, it should have compiled with my USE flags, but I don't know.

I have a Cedega subscription. I got started with 4.3 last year and I used that until my subscription ended in October I believe, right before v5. I continued to use that until 8 months later and now I have v5.
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Irritant · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

Thanks for the ebuild Paul - you rock

Rainmaker · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

BTW, I'm not on Gentoo at the moment (my motherboard burnt out), but does this ebuild actually work?

In https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=72264 I see it trying to untar

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Robin79 · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

I get an error on emerge the ebuild

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monade · Apprentice Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 204 Location: Berlin

The lines above are

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Which gcc version? x86 or amd64?

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

I'd suggest posting that compilation error on the Alien Arena forum, and using the alienarena-bin ebuild.

Erdie · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:55 am Post subject:

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Erdie · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:08 am Post subject:

Thanks, I am just downloading ..

-erdie
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