kafkahoi

Kafkahoi is a little shooter game with a special concept of controlling your charaktars.

You are a team of two little asterisks anywhere out in the wild -trying to survive and to collect the little sweet letters of a beautiful poem. One of you is the hunter, killing murderous flies with his sharp arrows and protecting you from a big ugly bug. The other one is the gatherer, never tired to find and collect the precious little letters.

But keep your powder dry! Your two little asterisks are a twirly little bunch, and you cannot control their movements directly -only influence their woozily fuss...

Latest Version

The latest version of this project can be found at : http://github.com/thomst/kafkahoi.

Installation

You need:

• pygame (http://pygame.org) and
• Tkinker (http://docs.python.org/2/library/tkinter.html)

On Linux/Ubuntu do :

sudo apt-get install python-pygame
sudo apt-get install python-tk

Get the zip-archive from github :

wget https://github.com/thomst/kafkahoi/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd kafkahoi-master/

Or download the tarball at http://sourceforge.net/projects/kafkahoi/ and unpacking it :

tar -xzf kafkahoi-1.0.4.tar.gz
cd kafkahoi-1.0.4/

Install kafkahoi :

sudo python setup.py install

Start the game with just typing :

kafkahoi

Gameplay

Collect all letters and complete the poem! Kill the flies and lame the bug with your hunter's arrows. But beware of touching them!

Gamecontrol

The movements of the asterisks are influenced by the position of the mouse. Tip: keep the mouse near the asterisks to minimalize their movements.

playing-mode:

• <s>/<f> or ←/→:

  rotate the hunter (white asterisk) for aiming

• <space> or ↓:

  throw the collected letters. They will find their right place if they are enough to build or complete a whole word.

• left mouse-button:

  shoot with the hunter (white asterisk)

• right mouse-button:

  collect letters with the gatherer (lilac asterisk)

• mouse-scroll:

  quick correction of the hunter's movement

• mouse-scroll + right mouse-button:

  quick correction of the gatherer's movement

• <p>:

  pause

menu-mode:

• <p>:

  choose poem

• <d>:

  choose level of dificulty

• <e>:

  start editor (there you can add/delete poems)

always:

• <s>:

  on/off sound

• <esc>:

  quit the game

Contribution

Every kind of feedback is very welcome.

Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs at github issue tracker: https://github.com/thomst/kafkahoi/issues

Author

thomst <thomaslfuss@gmx.de> Thomas Leichtfuß

• http://github.com/thomst