This is the home page for Afternoon Stalker, a robot-killing video game. It is a clone of the 1982 Night Stalker video game for the Intellivision, from Mattel Electronics.

Afternoon Stalker 1.2.0 is out (2024-05-25). This version is based on flatzebra 0.2.x and SDL2. The full screen mode now shows the correct aspect ratio.

Requirements (on a GNU/Linux system): SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_gfx, SDL2_ttf. The sources might compile on other Unix-like systems.

My personal high score is 41800 (June 29th, 2008). If you beat this, write to me and I will display your score here.

Download

You need to get afternoonstalker and flatzebra.

Package	Version	Source	Ubuntu 20.04 package	Ubuntu 20.04 development package
afternoonstalker	1.2.0
flatzebra-dev	0.2.0
quadrupleback	0.2.0
batrachians	0.2.0
burgerspace	1.10.0
cosmosmash	1.5.0

SHA512 signatures of these files.

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

License

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

SDL2 is a free library distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Documentation

Game Play

You should see an entry for Afternoon Stalker in the Games menu. The command afternoonstalker runs the game.

Use the arrow keys to move and the Ctrl key to shoot in the direction you last walked. You can also shoot in a fixed direction with the H (left), J (down), K (up) and L (right) keys (this is the same convention as in vi). The Escape key pauses the game and shows the main menu. The P key also pauses the game the same way.

Alternative Rules

• The game starts with 5 robots instead of 3, and the number of simultaneous robots increases more quickly.
• There are only gray and blue robots, but they move slightly faster.
• The number of bullets in a gun increases as the game progresses.
• Bonus lives do not come as often.

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).