DeepRunner

A 3D 6DoF underground maze shooter for the Silicon Graphics O2 workstation, and other computer systems old and new.

Supported platforms:

• SGI IRIX
• GNU/Linux
• FreeBSD
• MS Windows

Links

• Website: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/games/deeprunner
• Game page on itch.io: https://nuclear.itch.io/deeprunner
• Source code repo: https://github.com/MutantStargoat/deeprunner

Credits

• Code: John Tsiombikas (Nuclear).
• Graphics/Levels: dstar.
• Music: Robin Agani.

Controls

6DoF Spaceball/Spacemouse

The game supports 6DoF spacemouse input on SGI IRIX and other UNIX systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, etc). Make sure the spacemouse driver is running and has detected your 6dof device, before starting the game. You can use either the free spacenav driver (https://spacenav.sf.net) or the official 3Dconnexion driver.

Use the spacemouse to navigate, and the regular mouse to shoot at enemies.

Keyboard and Mouse

If you don't have a spacemouse, you can still run the game with just keyboard and mouse. If you're not in full-screen mode, press ~ to capture the mouse and start navigating; press it again to release the mouse.

Keybindings:

• W/A/S/D: move forward/back and strafe left/right.
• 2/X: move up/down.
• Q and E: roll left/right.
• ~: Capture/release the mouse (toggle mouselook).
• Left mouse button: shoot lasers.
• Right mouse button: shoot missiles.
• +/-: adjust sound volume.
• Alt-Enter: toggle between fullscreen/windowed.
• Esc: quit game and return to the menu.

In future versions of the game, these will be re-bindable from an in-game menu.

Options

Configuration options are read from game.cfg. If it doesn't exist, run the game once and exit, and it will create one with the default options commented out. Comments begin with the # symbol, to change one of the default options, remove the # from the line and change the value. Here's a list of all options and their possible values.

video

Video output options:

• xres and yres: set the resolution for windowed mode. Ignored in fullscreen.
• fullscreen: 0 or 1 for windowed or fullscreen. Fullscreen does not switch video modes; resizes the window to cover the entire screen.
• vsync: 0 or 1 for vsync off or on.

gfx

Graphics options:

• drawdist: set the draw distance in game units.
• texsize: choose texture quality, value between 0 and 2.
• texfilter: 0 = no filtering, 1 = bilinear, 2 = trilinear mipmapping.

audio

Audio settings:

• volmaster: master volume, 0 to 255.
• volmusic: music volume, 0 to 255.
• volsfx: sound effects volume, 0 to 255.
• music: 0 to disable music, 1 to enable music.

controls

Control options:

• invmousey: set to 1 to invert the vertical mouse axis, 0 for normal.
• mousespeed: mouse speed, 0 to 100.
• sballspeed: 6dof spacemouse/spaceball speed, 0 to 100.

License

Code

Copyright (C) 2023 John Tsiombikas [email protected]

This program is free software. Feel free to use, modify and/or redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3, or at your option any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING for details.

Graphics & levels

Copyright (C) 2023 dstar [email protected]

Game assets are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA). See LICENSE.assets for details.

Music

Copyright (C) 2023 Robin Agani [email protected]

Game music is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA). See LICENSE.assets for details.

Build instructions

Data files are in a separate subversion repo. Grab them with:

svn co svn://mutantstargoat.com/datadirs/deeprunner data

UNIX build

Just type make.

On IRIX you can use any compiler and make utility, system make and MIPSPro are supported as well as GCC and GNU make.

Windows build

Install msys2, start a mingw32 shell, and type make. The windows version can also be cross-compiled with make crosswin.