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Liquid War 5

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Liquid War is a unique multiplayer wargame. Its rules are truely original and have been invented by Thomas Colcombet. You control an army of liquid and have to try and eat your opponents. A single player mode is available, but the game is definitely designed to be multiplayer, and has network support.

If you have any questions or remarks about Liquid War, you can get help and informations on the Liquid War user mailing list:

Have a good day,

U-Foot

Status

Build Status

Liquid War 5 is now (at least) 20 years old. Some files probably remained unchanged through all those years but yet, apparently, still compile and run. Don't trust the git log for activity, this thing used to be on Source Forge and even before that it was developped without any source control system, back in 1998.

Since 2005, Liquid War 6 has been released, trying to get a better interfaces and technology to that program.

It happens Liquid War 5 is still the de facto best implementation around, usually available for major Linux distros, and Windows or Mac binaries usually work. Your mileage may vary, I'm definitely not actively developping this, however I'm still experimenting on new Liquid War ideas, I even have a liquidwar7 folder somewhere on my laptop where I'm hacking random things.

My overall advice would be to use this game and have fun with it, but if you want to hack around, there might be better things to do than touching this old and dusty code base. Please contact me if you want to know more.

Install

Get files here for Windows or Mac users. For GNU/Linux users, most of the time, something like this is enough:

sudo apt-get install liquidwar   # .deb distro (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
sudo yum install liquidwar       # .rpm distro (Fedora, ...)

Documentation

License

Liquid War is a multiplayer wargame. Copyright (C) 1998-2018 Christian Mauduit (ufoot@ufoot.org)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA