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What is egg-O-shOOter?
What are the requirements of egg-O-shOOter?
Where do I get 'Cheats' for egg-O-shOOter?
How can I detect the grafic card of my computer?
What is behind the menus?
Grafic cards supporting OpenGL, Part 1 - Linux drivers
Grafic cards supporting OpenGL, Part 2 - Windows drivers
How to install egg-O-shOOter
How to remove egg-O-shOOter.
What is egg-O-shOOter?
A funny little game. The meaning of the game is to hit eggs and thus to collect points. To make the game become more interesting, there are some special eggs containing additional playing time, ammunition, increasing game speed and so on. Because of that you don't get the highest amount of points just by shooting at all the eggs you can see. Instead you should have a special strategy for each level.
Even if the idea of the game sounds simple, it can fascinate you for several hours. It is not easy to keep the overview, especially whenever the playing field is crowded with birds like the sky over London Heathrow. Being an air controller is a big advantage. You have to stay concentrated until the last second of the game has passed by, because you can loose all your points by just one shot. Sometimes it is better not to shoot to avoid an unnecessary risk.
In the egg-O-shOOter kitchen you can shoot with a blowgun using peas as ammunition. In contrast to the (mostly justified) discredited 'First Person Shooters' you are not allowed to shoot at creatures! Is the destination of Doom, Quake & Co to harm or kill humans, daemons, or aliens with the help of all available resources, the egg-O-shOOter wants to propagate a better understanding of living together. If you hit birds, dogs or humans, the game ends immediately and your score is canceled.
You can try to find out how much fun a non violent game can generate.
You can also modify this game completely. With the help of the full version you can replace graphics, sounds and even the whole game procedure. How to do this is described at the column 'Insight'.
What are the requirements of egg-O-shOOter?
This game was developed at a computer containing a 800MHz Intel Celeron CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 2GB harddisk and a 8MB graphic card. The operating system is Windows 98. I try to keep the game running at this machine during the further development. It is also running at a computer with a 450MHz Intel II CPU, 256MB RAM and a Matrox Millenium G200 graphics card running Windows 2000. Here at the depth is reduced to 16Bit, because the OpenGL driver does not support a higher color depth. Here at the frames per second are a little low if there are many birds at the scene (many great tits at Level 5 - 'Dolls kitchen').
The driver of the graphic card has to support OpenGL (most manufacturers do so). You can read more about OpenGL drivers further below.
Egg-O-shOOter has been tested with Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Linux (SuSE and KNOPPIX/Debian).
The game is controlled by mouse and keyboard: Left mouse button=shoot, right mouse button=reload and scrolling is done by the cursor keys.
Download the free version and try it out! If the free version runns at your computer, the full version will work also.
The free version needs about 130MB of free disk space, the full version needs 110MB...
Where do I get 'Cheats' for egg-O-shOOter?
'Cheats' are add ons, allowing players of 'First Person Shooters' or other games to modify the program code and to get more points, become invulnerable and so on. Those cheats are mostly downloadable from less confidential sources (including trojans, viruses or backdoors). The egg-O-shOOter is much more easy to modify: Read the documentation, activate the full version and alter the game the way you want. You want more points per egg, you think there are not enough eggs in the air or like to reduce the appearance of birds? Or do you think the game is too easy to play and the eggs shold be smaller and faster? No problem - just edit the file 'themes.txt' with the help of a simple text editor.
Learing to create games by playing a game - I hope you will like it.
How can I detect the grafic card of my computer?
That is very simple when using Linux as operating system: Open a terminal and type 'sudo /sbin/lspci'. After confirming the root password all PCI components are listed. 'VGA compatible Controller' is the line with the used graphic card.
When using Windows you can use the program 'HardWareDetect.exe' referred to at the column 'Download'. Unpack the zip file to a directory of your choice. Start HardWareDetect.exe and a file named 'HardWareDetect.txt' will be created where at you will find the informations.