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Blockbomber is a port of bomberman to minetest.
It is a fast-paced multiplayer action arcade game.
The Goal, always, be the last Blocker standing!
You will have to get powerups to help you. You can get them by blowing things up; specifically, crates and bricks. Crates always drop an item, bricks sometimes do.
Items are not always good for you; some are usually beneficial, others usually a pain to have. Most annoying items are removed from your inventory after a time or after you get another item.
Blockbomber differs from other minetest games in many ways. First of all, you cannot jump. Your jump key is now your control key. It allows you to place bombs where you are standing, and if you have the coilspring item, it allows you to throw bombs you have placed.
Secondly, you get items just by standing on them. They appear in your hotbar.
Last, you should understand that your inventory is just an HUD, you cant select items in it. It lets you know your abilities such as how fast you can go, how big an explosion you will make, how many bombs you can place at once, whether you can throw bombs, or push them, or if you have a bad item which will affect you adversely.
Controls
regular movement keys
space or whatever your jump key is: place bomb
jump while in a bomb: throw bomb in look direction (if you have coilspring item)
Powerups
Its worth saying again: GET LOTS OF POWERUPS!!!!
each powerup does a different thing. To find out what they do, open the ingame menu with your inventory button, and scroll down past the leaderboard to the in-game help. There you will find a list of all the powerups and what they can do for you.
Some Highlights:
Spring allows you to throw bombs.
Getting the Fist allows you to push bombs. Stand within 1 node and punch it (Left mouse button).
Shoes make you faster
Extra bombs let you place more bombs at once. To start out, you can only place one at a time and must wait until it explodes to place another.
TNT makes your bombs' explosions bigger
Firebird resurrects all dead players
I'll let you find out what the rest do [insert evil laughter here]
How Do I play it?
You can download it and run a local server, if you have multiple computers and people at home to play with. No, you cant play singleplayer (what's the point?) Hey, maybe we will add bots to play against sometime in the future, no guarrantees though.
Your best option is to join an online server. There are several online already (Search for blockbomber in the serverlist)
The server we maintain is called MisterE's Blockbomber Server. It will have the latest fixes and new arenas.
Join the community
Threehymns and MisterE developed Blockbomber under the name "Blocknerd Games". You can join the chat protocol of your choice to join the community, to find people to play with, make suggestions and give feedback, get help with blockbomber, submit your arenas to be added to the game, and chat with other Blockers. Ingame chat is also bridged. Almost all channels are bridged together across platforms:
Discord: https://discord.gg/fqcEMNenhA
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#minetest---minigam ... matrix.org (also includes other games we run in the same space)
IRC: irc.freeirc.org
#blockbomber-chat
#blockbomber-dev
#blockbomber-ingame
#blockbomber-match
Make your own arenas!
You can use the Blockbomber editor game to make your own arenas. Follow the instructions in the readme. Its simple enough that I *think* even non-modders could do it, but a very small amount of modding experience will go a long way. Arenas are published as a mod, and we can add arena expansion packs to blockbomber as submodules upon request, assuming they actually work and have a compatible license. Otherwise they can still be installed on the server as a regular mod.
Download the editor here: https://content.minetest.net/packages/M ... er_editor/
Gimme the Download
content database: https://content.minetest.net/packages/M ... ockbomber/
Git: https://gitlab.com/blocknerd-games/blockbomber
Issues: https://gitlab.com/blocknerd-games/blockbomber/-/issues
installing from the command line:
cd into the minetest games folder:
Code: Select all
$ git clone --recursive https://gitlab.com/blocknerd-games/blockbombersome arena expansions are included in the game.
misteresarenas (by MisterE)
StarNinjas: https://github.com/starninjas/sn_expansion
Whats the License?
Blockbomber is mostly written under the MIT license, but because of a library we used, the game is under the :
GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
The media included is CC0, various authors, with attribution given in the mods they are used in. Most/all textures were made by us. Some audio was too.
