Hedgewars - a turn-based strategy game

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Description

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This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play—hilarious fun

that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. **Hedgewars** is a **turn-based strategy

game** but the real buzz is from watching the **devastation caused by those

pesky hedgehogs** with those fantastic weapons—sneaky little blighters with a

bad attitude!

Each player controls a **team of up to 8 hedgehogs**. During the course of

the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use

whatever tools and weapons are available to **attack and kill the opponents'

hedgehogs**, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain

in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using

particular tools such as the rope or parachute, to move to otherwise

inaccessible areas. Each **turn is time-limited** to ensure that players do

not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.

A large **variety of tools and weapons** are available for players during

the game. Hedgewars features the standard artillery-genre classics (such as

grenade, cluster bomb, bazooka, shotgun), but also boasts a host of other

weapons quite unique to it alone.

Most weapons, when used, cause **explosions that deform the terrain**,

removing circular chunks. Hedgehogs can die by drowning, being thrown off

either side of the arena, or when their health is reduced to zero.

Getting started

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For complete beginners we recommend to start with the the first 2 or 3

missions of the campaign “A Classic Fairytale” in the singleplayer menu.

It explains the basic controls and gameplay.

Note that Hedgewars doesn't have a *complete* tutorial yet, but it is

planned to create one in future versions.

In-depth information about the game can be found online:

* <https://hedgewars.org/start>: Getting Started

* <https://hedgewars.org/wiki.html>: Hedgewars Wiki

Default controls (excerpt)

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The most important default controls are:

* Cursor keys: Walk and aim

* Mouse: Move camera

* Right mouse button: Open ammo menu

* Left mouse button: Select target or weapon

* Space bar: Shoot

* Left shift: Precise

* Left shift + Up/Down: Precise aiming

* Enter: Jump

* Backspace: High jump

* Backspace ×2: Backjump

* Tab: Switch hedgehog (after activating the utility)

* 1-5: Set weapon timer

* F1-F10: Weapon shortcuts

* P: Pause (also shows mission panel)

* Esc: Quit with prompt (also shows mission panel)

* T: Chat

For the full list, go to the Hedgewars settings. Also read the weapon tooltips

for weapon-specific controls.

### Special controls

These are lesser-known controls of Hedgewars, they are based on your

configured controls:

* Confirm: Team chat (if not confirming quit)

* Hold down Precise: Prevent slipping on ice

* Precise + Left/Right: Turn around

* Precise + Toggle team bars: Change hedgehog tabs

* Precise + Toggle team bars + Switch: Toggle HUD

* Precise + Screenshot: Save current map + mask in Screenshot directory

Installation instructions

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See the `INSTALL.md` file.

Or see our wiki at <https://hedgewars.org/kb/BuildingHedgewars>.

Source code

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Our main repository is located at <https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/> using

Mercurial as DVCS. A Git repository is also available (mirrored daily)

at <https://github.com/hedgewars/hw>.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hedgewars/hw.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/hedgewars/hw)

Contribute

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If you see a bug or have any suggestion please use the official bug tracker at

<https://hedgewars.org/bugs> or the integrated feedback button.

If you want to help or get to know the sources better you can do that with some

easy tasks from <https://hedgewars.org/kb/TODO>. We also have an extensive API

in Lua to customize your adventures. See our wiki at

<https://hedgewars.org/kb/LuaAPI>.

If you know your way through the code feel free to send a patch or open a pull

request. The best Lua scripts get released in the official DLC page and later

integrated in the next version.

Licence and credits

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This game is free software (“free” as in “freedom”). Source code is

distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2;

images and sounds are distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation

Licence version 1.2. See the `COPYING` file for the full text of the licenses.

Copyright 2004-2015 Andrey Korotaev <unC0Rr@gmail.com> and others.

See `QTfrontend/res/html/about.html` and `CREDITS` for a more complete list of

authors.

Contact

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* Homepage        - https://hedgewars.org/

* IRC channel     - irc://irc.freenode.net/hedgewars

* Community forum - https://hedgewars.org/forum

* Mailing list    - https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/hedgewars-dev