Friday, December 12, 2008

Solar Wolf Game

Solar wolf is a fun spaceship shooter. It is written in Python and uses Pygame. This makes it a perfect match for the XO and it works excellent.
Steps to install and run:
1. Download the Solar Wolf source from http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz

You can use wget http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz in the terminal if you want, or download it on another computer and use USB stick to transfer it over.

2. Put it somewhere you want it. Creating a folder in the /home/olpc directory with the command sudo mkdir /home/olpc/games might be a good idea. Then use the cp command to put the gzipped tarball you downloaded in step one there.

3. Get into whatever folder you put it in, then use the gunzip and tar commands to extract the source. First uncompress with gunzip solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz. After that, tar -xvf solarwolf-1.5.tar will extract all the files and folders.

4. Type python /(path to wherever you placed the files)/solarwolf.py and press enter. For example, if you created the games folder as mentioned in step 2, then the command would be python /home/olpc/games/solarwolf-1.5/solarwolf.py

5. Play

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