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"The Castle" is a first-person shooter style game in a dark fantasy setting. Your main weapon is a sword, so the fight is mostly short-range. 3 main levels included, packed with creatures, items and sounds.
Also a couple of bonus levels are available, for fun and to show off some engine features. In particular, there's the classic DOOM E1M1 level — I know you always wished to had a sword and a bow in DOOM :) Enjoy !
Requirements to run: fast and stable OpenGL (read: good graphic card with up-to-date drivers). At least 512 MB RAM is recommended, although on some graphic cards even 256 MB may be enough. The game was tested with various graphic cards and OpenGL implementations: NVidia, Radeon with closed drivers from ATI and open-source ones, Mesa OpenGL also works (although Mesa will usually be too slow).
For ambitious future plans about this game, see my goals for this game.
This is free software, so if you're interested you're also welcome to download game sources. This contains all Pascal sources, blender models, some Makefiles, GIMP xcf files, etc. You will also need Kambi VRML game engine if you want to recompile the game, see here for more info.
Linux, FreeBSD:
To hear game sounds you should first install OpenAL and vorbisfile library. If installing the older OpenAL Sample Implementation from Loki be sure to install also libvorbis-dev package (i.e. with developers symlinks) too (otherwise SI reports that vorbis extension is present, but will fail to use it). This problem is not present with newer OpenAL-Soft, as it doesn't have vorbis extension and we will use our own handling then. If you don't want to hear sounds, you don't have to install OpenAL.
Installing actual game: extract downloaded archive to /usr/local/share/castle/ or $HOME/.castle.data/. You can move or symlink the executable castle to any place you like (e.g. $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin).
Run the game by running castle.
Mac OS X:
The game requires X11 server, libpng and (if you want to hear sound) OpenAL with vorbisfile. See Mac OS X dependencies for simple instructions how to get them.
Install actual game like on any other Unix: extract downloaded archive to /usr/local/share/castle/ or $HOME/.castle.data/. You can move or symlink the executable castle to any place you like (e.g. $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin).
Run the game by running castle.
Windows:
OpenAL and vorbis libraries are already included in the archive. So you don't have to install OpenAL yourself.
Installing actual game: extract downloaded archive to any directory. Run the game by running castle.exe.
Note that from the game you will be able to choose various audio devices (see menu Sound options). I advice to check both devices. Under Windows Generic Software device often sounds better than the default one. On the other hand, as far as I know, only Generic Hardware can produce sound better than stereo, if you have more than 2 speakers.
Just delete the directory where you unpacked the game. You may also want to delete configuration file:
| Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X) | $HOME/.castle.conf |
| Windows >= NT / 2000 / XP | Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\castle.conf |
| Windows 95 / 98 / ME | <program's directory>\castle.conf |
Here's a link to "The Castle" entry on freshmeat. You can use this e.g. to subscribe to new releases, so that you will be automatically notified about new releases of "The Castle".
| Copyright Michalis Kamburelis. This page is considered part of documentation of my programs, and you are free to modify and further distribute it on terms of GNU General Public License. |
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