This is a game which contains not only fish but also squash. You may look at it and think "Hey, this game looks a lot like ChuChu Rocket for Dreamcast, only not as good!".
Here's how the game works:
The game takes place on a grid. Each player has their very own Tux which sits in one of the grid spaces. The grid will also contain refrigerators, which produce fish and squash. These foodstuffs will wander around the grid in a deterministic manner (mostly clockwise), and Tux will eat anything that lands on him.
Tux is a penguin, so he likes fish. I, on the other hand, strongly dislike yellow squash, so I have decreed that Tux does too. So you get points for fish and lose points for squash.
So what's the game? Well, each player also has a hand (flipper?) which
can be used to place arrows on the grid. If a piece of food hits an
arrow, it goes in that direction. So you want to put down arrows so
that the squash will go towards your opponents' Tuxes and the fish
will go towards your own Tux. You can only have 3 arrows on the board
at once, though, so when you place your fourth arrow, the first
disappears. Simple, yet fun. Well, it's certainly simple. I'll work on
the fun part some more.
Screenshots
Here is a screenshot of version 0.3. It's
not nearly as ugly as it used to be! Here is
another.
News
I have created a webpage, which is much better than just a tarball and
a png file sitting in a directory somewhere. Maybe someone will
actually try to install it now. The game is currently mostly playable,
though there is not much variety yet. In particular, the rate and
makeup of the things coming out of the refrigerator is constant, and
the sprites are not animated. I would also like to add sound at some
point and the ability to specify which keys to use.
Requirements
Fish 'N Squash requires SDL,
SDL_image, and SDL_ttf. I think that's it. My configure script is
probably pretty bad, though, so let me know if you have trouble
building. It has only been tested on modified Red Hat 7.0
computer. I'd be pretty surprised if it built on anything but Linux,
but I don't think I've put anything Linux-specific in there.
Oh, and I'm releasing it under the GPL.
Download
Just source for now. It has a specfile in it, though, so you should be able to build an RPM for yourself pretty easily by doing rpm -tb fishnsquash-version.tar.gz.
Andrew H. Chatham
