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Dave Gnukem is a retro-style 2D scrolling platform shooter. It is inspired by & similar to Duke Nukem 1, a famous 1991 classic. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, OpenPandora, MorphOS & more. It's not a clone or remake; it's more like a parody.
~2022/2023: New packages for Debian, Ubuntu etc.! https://repology.org/project/davegnukem/versions
3 Apr 2018: Version 1 out!
As of 8 Oct 2016, this project is active again. Source: https://github.com/davidjoffe/dave_gnukem
Dev LiveStream: http://twitch.tv/david_joffe
https://www.liveedu.tv/david_joffe/l98yv-dave-gnukem-side-scrolling-shooter/
Level Editor HowTo: https://youtu.be/xiznDqg2BHg
What reviewers are saying: "Worth the price you paid for it" "Not the worst game I've ever seen"
AWARDS: Won the arin_j "i think your a good programer award", 6 Jan 2018 live-stream; "FIVE STARS amazing programer at work" - https://www.liveedu.tv/david_joffe/R8JV2-miscellaneous/4zxMn-miscellaneous-49/
❤️Please donate, thanks!
Features
- Now with less crashes
- Game taking forever to complete, like Duke Nukem Forever
- Shootable bananas
- Integrated level editor
- Subliminal messages
- Clever pun in game title
- Evil SuperTux
- SystemD integration
- Big rockets
- Something that sort of resembles a cannon on wheels
- Arcane command-line parameters nobody will use
- Cutting edge lighting effects you'd expect from 1990
- More or less family friendly
- Teleporters
- Nostalgic references to technology nobody uses anymore
- A surprisingly bearable 18 frames per second
- Red balloons
- Overweight hero to represent rise in obesity rates since original 1991 release
- Fans that blow you (no not what you're thinking, you dirty mind)
- Detects and corrects wrongthink
- Software doesn't spy on you
- Now with extra-retro simulated EGA/CGA, you'll feel like you're in the 90s again or your money back
- Bugs older than your children
- Floors
- Walls
- Doors
- Much much more!
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