
Eaters Of Coins.

Copyright 2004  Erik Johnson
erikejohnson@gmail.com

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 Circles are coins.
 Squares are eaters of coins.
 It's all part of the circle of life.
		-Dumple

Race against your rival to collect the most coins.  The more coins you collect,
the more random your movement.  Bump your rival to transfer some of your energy
to them.  Play against the computer, or against a friend.


Running:
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Good luck.  In theory it should be possible to build cross platform binaries
of the game.  All that is in this distribution is a perl script that 
requires perlSDL.  Unfortunately, this is probably going to limit the audience to 
a small set of Linux users.

The perl SDL module on cpan doesn't want to install for me, so I used the 
Debian package.

If you can get Frozen Bubble (www.frozen-bubble.org) to run, my game should 
run.

Although they wouldn't qualify for the ld48 comp, I might try to post binaries
some time next week at:
http://www.opennet.ca/~erik



Hardware requirements:
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It was developed on a Celeron-466mhz with 256mb of ram.  It might suck on 
slower hardware.


About the game:
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This was my first game written in perl.  It was my first game using SDL.  It
was also my first action game.

It was developed in 48 hours as part of the fifth ld48 competition.  For more
info about the comp. see:
http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/ld48/

For more info about the game see the timelog.txt file and:
http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/ld48/home/erik
