Luola

Jul 20, 2023

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Luola is a 2D arcade game where you fly a small V shaped ship in different kinds of levels. It’s genre “Luolalentely” Cave-flying is or was very popular here in Finland. Though cavern-flying games are not originally Finnish, nowdays most of them are.

Features

  • 2-4 players
  • Team play
  • Ability to eject the pilot and walk around the level as a human
  • Supports truecolor level artwork and over a dozen terrain types ranging from watercurrents to explosives
  • Supports custom level palettes thus can load levels from practically any caveflying game such as V-Wing or Wings
  • Level specials such as snowfall, critters, auto-turrets and jump-gates
  • Supports keyboard and gamepad input
  • Sound effects and background music thru SDL_mixer library
  • Transparency and antialiasing effects thru SDL_gfx library
  • Can use Truetype fonts thru SDL_ttf library
  • Multiplatform supports Linux and Windows


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