1 Hedgewars - a turn based strategy game.

     1 Hedgewars - a turn-based strategy game

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     3 

     4 Description

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

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

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

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

    10 bad attitude!

    11 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    19 not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.

    20 

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

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

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

    24 weapons quite unique to it alone.

    25 

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

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

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

    29 

    30 Getting started

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

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

    34 It explains the basic controls and gameplay.

    35 

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

    37 planned to create one in future versions.

    38 

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

    40 

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

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

    43 

    44 Default controls (excerpt)

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    46 The most important default controls are:

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    48 * Cursor keys: Walk and aim

    49 * Mouse: Move camera

    50 * Right mouse button: Open ammo menu

    51 * Left mouse button: Select target or weapon

    52 * Space bar: Shoot

    53 * Left shift: Precise

    54 * Left shift + Up/Down: Precise aiming

    55 * Enter: Jump

    56 * Backspace: High jump

    57 * Backspace ×2: Backjump

    58 * Tab: Switch hedgehog (after activating the utility)

    59 * 1-5: Set weapon timer

    60 * F1-F10: Weapon shortcuts

    61 * P: Pause (also shows mission panel)

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

    63 * T: Chat

    64 

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

    66 for weapon-specific controls.

    67 

    68 ### Special controls

    69 

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

    71 configured controls:

    72 

    73 * Confirm: Team chat (if not confirming quit)

    74 * Hold down Precise: Prevent slipping on ice

    75 * Precise + Left/Right: Turn around

    76 * Precise + Toggle team bars: Change hedgehog tabs

    77 * Precise + Toggle team bars + Switch: Toggle HUD

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

    79 

    80 Installation instructions

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    82 See the `INSTALL.md` file.

    83 

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

    85 

    86 Source code

    87 -----------

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

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

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

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

    94 Contribute

     7 See QTfrontend/res/html/about.html and CREDITS for a complete list of authors.

    95 ----------

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     9 Licence:

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    11 Source code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence

    12 version 2; images and sounds are distributed under the terms of the GNU Free

    13 Documentation Licence version 1.2. See the COPYING file for the full text of

    14 the licenses.

    15 

    16 Instructions:

    17 -------------

    18 See our wiki at: https://hedgewars.org/kb/BuildingHedgewars

    19 

    20 You can find an outline of the necessary dependencies in the INSTALL file.

    21 

    22 Source code:

    23 ------------

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

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

    26 at https://github.com/hedgewars/hw

    27 

    28 Contribute:

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    31 https://hedgewars.org/bugs or the integrated feedback

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

    32 button.

    35 easy tasks from https://hedgewars.org/kb/TODO. We also have an

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

    36 extended API in LUA to customize your adventures in our wiki at

   101 in Lua to customize your adventures. See our wiki at

    37 https://hedgewars.org/kb/LuaAPI.

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

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

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

    43 Contact:

   108 Licence and credits

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

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

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

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

   114 

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

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

   117 authors.

   118 

   119 Contact

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   121 * Homepage        - https://hedgewars.org/

    46 * community forum - https://hedgewars.org/forum

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

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

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