BSD Ports

games/gemdropx 0.9_12 DragonFly

Interesting one-player puzzle game for X (SDL)

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
games
Package size
731.1 KiB, 1538.6 KiB installed

Description

"Gem Drop X" is an interesting one-player puzzle game using the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) libraries.

It is a direct port of "Gem Drop," an Atari 8-bit game written in Action! (a very fast C- and Pascal-like compiled language for the Atari).

It was originally ported to X11, using SDL for sound and music. Eventually, the Xlib graphics calls were removed and replaced with SDL calls.

The concept of the game "Gem Drop" is based on an arcade game for the NeoGeo system called "Magical Drop III" by SNK.

If you're familiar with games like Jewels, Klax, Bust-A-Move or Tetris, this game is similar to them all. I consider it closest to Klax. Some people have compared it to "Tetris meets Space Invaders."

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlygames/gemdropx0.9_12
FreeBSDgames/gemdropx0.9_12
OpenBSDgames/gemdropx0.9p0
NetBSDgames/gemdropx0.9nb7

Install

Binary package:

pkg install gemdropx

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/games/gemdropx && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The gemdropx port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing