BurgerSpace Home Page

http://sarrazip.com/dev/burgerspace.html

By Pierre Sarrazin

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Last update to this page:
2013-03-17 14:53:50 EST5EDT

See also:
• Quadrupleback: a Doubleback clone.
• Batrachians: a Frog Bog clone.
• Afternoon Stalker: a Night Stalker clone.
• Cosmosmash: an Astrosmash clone.
• BoolStuff: a C++ disjunctive normal form boolean library.
• Verbiste: a French conjugation system.

This is the home page for BurgerSpace, a hamburger-smashing video game. It is a clone of the 1982 BurgerTime video game by Data East.

BurgerSpace 1.9.2 is out (2013-02-25). Selecting a slot number when loading or saving games can now be done with the up and down keys, to accommodate keyboard layouts where digits are shifted, like the French keyboard. A GCC 4.7 compilation issue related to the close(1) function has been resolved. Since version 1.9.0, a two-player, experimental network version is included. More details here. (This version still provides the stand-alone single-player game.)

Requirements (on a GNU/Linux system): SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer. The sources might compile on other Unix-like systems.

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You need to get burgerspace and flatzebra. Your system is assumed to already have the required SDL libraries.

Package	Ver.	Source	SRPM	RPM
burgerspace	1.9.2
flatzebra	0.1.6
flatzebra-devel	0.1.6
quadrupleback	0.1.0
batrachians	0.1.6
cosmosmash	1.4.6
afternoonstalker	1.1.5

(MD5 and SHA1 values of these files.)

The RPM packages were produced on a Fedora 16 GNU/Linux system.

If you want to build binary RPMs by yourself and need an introduction to the subject, I wrote a brief RPM Building Crash Course (also available in French). All of my source archives contain an RPM .spec file.

The sources are in C++ and can be compiled and installed with the familiar ./configure && make && make install sequence.

Reported High Scores

Name	Score	Level	Date
Edgardo Cerretti and Matteo Giordano	8,353,750	570	2009-03-10
Marat Saldakov	2,177,500	167	2012-10-30
Chris Lilly	1,337,050	140	2007-09-28
Chris Cowell	755,350	84	2013-01-26
Robert C Robinson	615,050	62	2010-01-10
François "Cuisinier en chef" Benoit	609,550	68	2007-03-31
Chris Lilly	508,800	52	2005-07-14
Chris Stephany	396,850	25	2005-05-11
Chris Lipe	301,050	20	2004-05-31
Candice Adams	285,000	26	2005-07-15
Tommy Etling	204,050	20	2008-12-09
Robert C Robinson	187,250	20	2008-04-25
Julian Doan	172,900	18	2004-05-09
Pierre Sarrazin	167,050	18	2003-11-19

License

BurgerSpace and the "flatzebra" library are free software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

SDL is a free library distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Documentation

Known Bugs

If BurgerSpace crashes when starting, it may be due to SDL_image 1.2.5, which is buggy concerning .xpm images. You should see if your GNU/Linux distribution has issued a patch for 1.2.5.

See my bug report for this on the SDL web site. It includes a patch for the SDL_image sources.

If your distribution is Gentoo, there is a bug report about this here.

The bug does not happen with SDL_image 1.2.4.

Game Play

The command burgerspace runs the game. Use the arrow keys to move, the Ctrl key to throw pepper, and P to pause the game and resume it. The Escape key quits the game. If you use GNOME, you should see an entry for BurgerSpace in the Games menu.

There is a command-line option --z-for-pepper which allows you to shoot with the Z key instead of Ctrl.

Thanks

Most images were drawn by Luce St-Amand with the GNU Image Manipulation Program. She also did a lot of testing (for this game as well as for Cosmosmash.)

Contact

I can be reached (in French or English) by email at sarrazip at sarrazip dot com. My main Web page is Pierre and his Poor Pathetic Page (or La Petite Page Plate de Pierre in French).

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