Chromium BSU
You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling shooter.
Players are expected to shoot enemy aircraft in order to ensure that the enemy aircraft do not reach the bottom of the screen. For every aircraft that reaches the bottom of the screen the player will lose a life. This particular rule makes Chromium B.S.U. unique amongst the usual scrolling space shooters and adds a new degree of difficulty to the genre. Another aspect of the game that makes winning difficult is the lack of ammunition. Ammunition must be utilized efficiently in order to win.When a player is having difficulty destroying foes the player has two options. They can crash into enemy vessels and deal damage to the ship as well as themselves. The other alternative is to self-destruct, thereby destroying all the enemies on the screen.
In the first level of the game there are only three types of enemy ships. More enemy ships are introduced to the player as they advanced through levels. The game was designed to be played on short time intervals as a quick relief. Long hours of dedication is not the goal of the project. However, due to the addictive nature of the game many players play the game in this manner.
Reference accessed HERE 3rd Sept 2012
prerequisites
1) ... Hardware accelerated OpenGL and GLU
2) ... Simple Direct Media Layer version 1.1.6 or greater (GLUT is an alternative)
3) ... OpenAL and ALUT
You can read more about Chromium BSU via Wikipedia HERE and there's a decent review on one of the Linux sites HERE.
You can see a video of game play HERE
Download:
You can get Chromium BSU for windows and Linux HERE or via the Desura clent HERE