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Infon Battle Arena

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Playing:

Please visit http://infon.dividuum.de/ There you'll find tutorials, a function reference and example code.

Compiling the Game:

Requirements:

Server: libevent (tested with 1.1a) zlib

Client: libevent zlib

2D SDL based renderer: SDL (tested with 1.2.8) SDL_image SDL_gfx SGE

3D OpenGL based renderer: SDL OpenGL

Type 'make', edit config.lua, run ./infond then ./infon localhost. If you need help, please visit the channel #infon on irc.freenode.net.

Contact:

Florian 'dividuum' Wesch [email protected] Please send me your bots, images of events, patches etc..

License:

The game itself is released under the GPL.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details

The binary release of the 2D renderer (sdl_gui.so / sdl_gui.dll) is linked against:

SDL         http://www.libsdl.org
SDL_image   http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
SDL_gfx     http://www.ferzkopp.net/Software/SDL_gfx-2.0/
SGE         http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8cal1/sge/

  All of them are covered by the LGPL. 
  See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt for details

The binary release of the 3D renderer (gl_gui.so / gl_gui.dll) is linked against:

SDL         http://www.libsdl.org

  This library is covered by the LGPL. 
  See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt for details

The binary releases of both client (infon / infon.exe) and server (infond) include libevent:

libevent    http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/        

  Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Niels Provos <[email protected]>
  All rights reserved.

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  are met:
  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
     derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
  OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
  INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
  NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
  DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
  THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
  (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
  THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The server uses a modified lua 5.1.2:

lua         http://www.lua.org/

  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
  THE SOFTWARE.

The Datafiles included in client and server distribution:

gfx/5x7.fnt      - From SDL_gfx (LGPL)
gfx/font.png     - From SDL_sge (LGPL)
gfx/creature.mdl - From the "Hack and Slash: Y2K Apocalypse Edition" 
                   Quake Mod (GPL). Originally called dog.mdl :-)