flManowar is classic battleship game. It uses FLTK for user interface, supports local (against a computer) and (optional) network game through xmpp protocol and includes basic jabber client. flManowar is tested to work on Linux and Windows.
The desk has 2 10x10 square fields. Left belongs to you and right to you enemy.
Place your ships by left mouse button at the left desk. You have got next 10 ships:
Right click change orientation of placement.
When you've finished ships placement - The Fight begin. Click enemy field and destroy all enemy ships. If the shoot was successful you continue to shoot, otherwise enemy begin to shoot.
Player that destroy all ships win.
To begin network game you must have jabber account.
Setup network by selecting Network - Setup . User Name: - first part of your jabber account.
Domain: - part after @
flManowar support next Proxy's type :
After setup select Network - Connect
Program includes basic jabber client that support messaging and game. It has Contact Window that displays your contacts list. Click on contact rises dialog window (it also raises when you receive message).
Dialog Window contain text field for message history, text input and game invite button. You can type message in window and then press enter for sending.
For Network game you must press Invite Button (at the right on input). and if you friend confirm place ships and begin game.
To build flmanowar you need fltk library > = 1.1.8. and optional gloox - for xmpp support.
NOTE: since xmpp use utf-8 it's recommended use fltk-1.3, that supports unicode.
Installation procedure is standard:
./configure
make
make install
flManowar written by Yury P. Fedorchenko. < yuryfdr@users.sf.net >
flManowar is free software distributed under GPL. You can get a copy of GPL at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htm
You can obtain information of program update on its homepage