Comments on: Tron in 3D And Awesome: Armagetron

By: 2020

2020 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:34:17 +0000

zing

By: ACardboardRobot

ACardboardRobot — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:45:40 +0000

Love this game. Always playing it when I’m booted into Ubuntu.

RPS multiplayer on this would own

By: Gryffin

Gryffin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:22:44 +0000

I freaking love this game. Playing at a fairly fast speed with a medium arena is heaven. And turn off that rubber junk, whatever it is, that gives you a free second or so to turn after hitting a wall. Explosion on impact is mandatory. The perfect lan party game.

By: jasper

jasper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:13:00 +0000

how do i actually play this game, I really want to but cant find out where I paly it

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:16:24 +0000

Well, armagetron crashed twice on my computer and seems to have simultaneously totally fucked it over! :(

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5894064#post5894064

By: MadKat

MadKat — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:06:12 +0000

@Andreas:
I’m glad to see you posting. Armagetron is a good, solid game. But back in the day when we all sat around playing Lightbike games in high school, the one that stood out was GLTron. It was fast. It was crazy. And it was even more crazy with 2 or more of us crammed around one keyboard trying to control our bikes and get the upper hand.

Thank you for some hilariously good fun.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:59:34 +0000

Armagetron and GLtron (I’m the author) are different projects. GLtron is ‘in hibernation’ for couple of years now, (I’ve worked on it sporadically, adding features, but never got to a point where a release was practical)

The main differences are:

- GLtron’s multiplayer mode is only split screen, no networking (although getting 4 people to share a keyboard can be hilarious!)
- GLtron’s gameplay has more of an ‘arcade’ feel then Armagetron. The default settings are faster paced, and there’s no ’speed hit’ for making turns.
- I spent too much time on gimmics like correct doppler acoustic effects.

By: Itaint

Itaint — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:47:57 +0000

It isn’t freeware, it’s Free software. There’s a huge difference.

/pedantry_mode

By: Nallen

Nallen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:00:08 +0000

Stuck this on my PC last night. And so began a 3 way LAN battle that lasted an hour. When typical games are 30-60 seconds long, that’s a lot of playing. Perfect.

By: Tichinde

Tichinde — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:27:31 +0000

Sooo many games of this at Urban Chaos and so many people screaming at me with pure hate as I escaped their traps via double sparking.
I wasn’t great at the game as a whole but by god I could fit my bike between them narrow gaps :D

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:20:52 +0000

Sounds awesome. At school, four player Tron-clone gathered around a single Acorn Archimedes keyboard was our game of choice. It didn’t have this nifty acceleration mechanic, though, and obviously it was in 2D.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:35:53 +0000

@Alex: It really doesn’t need them.

@Smee: I’d suggest you’re wrong on theTron 2.0 part at the very least. That was a bloody awful version of light cycles, IMO. Gl Tron I’ve forgotten – I’m assuming because I think Armagetron is so much better (I’ve got a piss-poor memory, and it throws away stuff I think I no longer need to care about).

Regardless, we always used to play Armagetron with a strict “no brakes” policy – made it more fun.

And real men’s rules is no brakes and 1st person view. :)