Artillery games

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Artillery games involve the aiming of a turret, handheld gun or creature's firing trajectory as a core mechanic, usually (but not always) taken in turns.

List of Artillery games[edit]

This is a list of free/libre artillery games:



Game Screenshot Last Release Genres Description
Hedgewars Hedgewars.png 2019-10-09 TBS
Hedgewars
Hedgewars.png
Hedgewars 1.0.0
GenreTBS
Latest release1.0.0  (Announcement)
Release dateOctober 9th, 2019
DeveloperHedgewars devlopment team
Code licenseGPLv2[1]
Media licenseGFDLv1.2 (images & sounds)
GPLv2 (rest)[1]
P. languageFree Pascal (game), Haskell (game server), C++ (Qt front-end)
LibraryQt, SDL, PhysFS
Homepagehttp://www.hedgewars.org/
Contribute
Hedgewars is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
Arch Linux "Crystal" icon.svg Arch: hedgewars 
Openlogo-debianV2.svg Debian: hedgewars 
Fedora logo.svg Fedora: hedgewars  
Flatpak logo.png Flatpak: org.hedgewars.Hedgewars 
Daemon-phk.svg FreeBSD: hedgewars 
Gentoo Linux logo matte.svg Gentoo: games-strategy/hedgewars 
Mageia logo small.jpg Mageia: hedgewars 
Slackware logo.svg Slackware: hedgewars 
Snapcraft-logo.svg Snapcraft: hedgewars 
OpenSUSE Logo.svg openSUSE: hedgewars 
UbuntuCoF.svg Ubuntu: hedgewars

Hedgewars is a turn-based artillery game featuring fighting hedgehogs. The player has to equip their team of hedgehogs with a choice of numerous silly weapons like hellish hand grenades, homing bees or melon bombs in order to combat the enemy.

Hase Hase sc5.png 2020-08-07 TBS
Hase
Hase sc5.png
GenreTBS
Latest release1.6.8  (Announcement)
Release dateAugust 7th, 2020
DevelopertheZiz
Code licenseGPLv3[2]
Media licenseCC-BY-SA[3]
Enginesparrow3d
P. languageC
LibrarySDL
Homepagehttp://ziz.gp2x.de/hase/index.htm
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Hase is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Hase is an open source (GPL) gravity based artillery shooter. It is similar to WarMUX, Hedgewars or other artillery games, but the gravity force and direction depends on the mass nearby, similarly to WarHeads (1997). It is optimized for mobile game consoles like the GP2X, Open Pandora or GCW Zero, so it doesn't make use of the mouse even on the PC. Hase features:

  • Awesome mix of real time and turn based action
  • 20 unique weapons
  • Arbitrary number of characters per team
  • Hotseat play with an arbitrary count of players
  • Also network play, even mixed with hotseat play
  • 25 different spritesets to choose your character from
  • Masses of particles, which are also influenced by gravity
  • An action point based system to use stronger or more weapons per turn
  • Different randomly dropped items to spice things up
  • Forgot the button mapping? Just activate the ingame overlay help


WarMUX Wormux 0.8beta4 halloween.png 2011-01-21 Turn-based strategy, Artillery
WarMUX
Wormux 0.8beta4 halloween.png
Wormux 0.8 beta 4
GenresTurn-based strategy, Artillery
Latest release11.01
Release dateJanuary 21st, 2011
Code licenseGPL
Media licenseGPL
LibrarySDL, formerly ClanLib
Contribute
WarMUX is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
Openlogo-debianV2.svg Debian: warmux  
OpenSUSE Logo.svg openSUSE: warmux

WarMUX (Wormux until November 21st, 2010)[4] is a Worms-like game that is licensed under the GPL, including its data.[5][6] The latest version of the game is 11.01 released on January 21st, 2011.[7] This game does not require 3D hardware acceleration.

Scorched 3D Scorched 3D 40.1 screenshot 2.jpg 2014-08-01 TBS
Scorched 3D
Scorched 3D 40.1 screenshot 2.jpg
GenreTBS
Latest release44  (Announcement)
Release dateAug 1, 2014
Code licenseGPL
P. languageC++
Homepagehttp://scorched3d.sourceforge.net/
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Scorched 3D is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
Openlogo-debianV2.svg Debian: scorched3d 
Fedora logo.svg Fedora: scorched3d  
Daemon-phk.svg FreeBSD: scorched3d 
Gentoo Linux logo matte.svg Gentoo: games-strategy/scorched3d 
Mageia logo small.jpg Mageia: scorched3d 
Slackware logo.svg Slackware: Scorched3D 
OpenSUSE Logo.svg openSUSE: scorched3d 
UbuntuCoF.svg Ubuntu: scorched3d

Scorched 3D is a 3D turn based artillery game and based on the DOS game Scorched Earth. It is licensed under the GPLv2.[8] The latest version of the game is 44 released on August 1st, 2014[9] [10] It is written in the C++ programming language.[11]

Childish Cannoneer Childish-Cannoneer.png 2012-09-15 Artillery, Graphical adventure
Childish Cannoneer
Childish-Cannoneer.png
GenresArtillery, Graphical adventure
Latest releaseSource Release 2  (Announcement)
Release dateSeptember 15th, 2012
DevelopersWhite Island Software, Piga Software
Code licenseGPLv3
Media licenseGPLv3, GFDL
EngineGambas (picture boxes)
P. languageGambas 3.x
LibrariesQt/GTK, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment.
Contribute
Childish Cannoneer is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Childish Cannoneer is the first venture of the "Indie Games" project hosted by White Island Software at the Gambas Forum, and participated in by Piga Software through Graham L. Wilson. The aim of the project is to make computer games to show off the Gambas language, with the eventual hope of inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle for maximum attention. It is to feature a little boy building a makeshift air cannon from spare parts only to terrorize his older sister, and potentially the whole neighbourhood, while evading the wrath of his father. The majority of the game's multimedia are derived from vector graphics taken from OpenClipart and sound effects taken from SoundBible. Contributions to this project, or the creation of other entities for the Indie Games project, are more then welcome.

Slingshot Slingshot 0.8.1p p1-p2m.png 2007 TBS
Slingshot
Slingshot 0.8.1p p1-p2m.png
Player 1 tries to hit Player 2’s ship, but the large planets below change the trajectory
GenreTBS
Latest release0.8.1p
Release date2007
DevelopersJonathan Musther, Bart Mak
Code licenseGPLv2+
Media licenseGPLv2+
EnginePygame
P. languagePython
Homepagehttps://web.archive.org/web/20090930033315/http://slingshot.wikispot.org/
Contribute
Slingshot is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Slingshot is a gravity‐based TBS, written in Python by Jonathan Musther and Bart Mak using Pygame. The latest version is 0.8.1p, released in 2007 under GNU General Public License 2 or later.

Atanks Atanks - scrnshot28.png 2021-08-12 Action
Atanks
Atanks - scrnshot28.png
GenreAction
Latest release6.6  (Announcement)
Release dateAugust 12th, 2021
PlatformsWindows, GNU/Linux
DevelopersJesse Smith, Juraj Michalek, Thomas Hudson
Code licenseGPLv2
Media licenseGPL
P. languageC++
LibraryAllegro
Homepagehttp://atanks.sourceforge.net/
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Atanks is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Atanks or Atomic Tanks is a tank shooting game similar to Wormux. It is licensed under the GPL.[12][13] It uses the game library Allegro.[14] It is written in the C++ programming language.

Ballerburg Ballerburg ss1.png 1989 Artillery game
Ballerburg
Ballerburg ss1.png
Ballerburg, Atari ST Version 1987
GenreArtillery game
Latest release'89er Version
Release date1989
PlatformAtari ST
DeveloperEckhard Kruse
Code licensePublic Domain[15][16]
Media licensePublic Domain[15][16][15]
P. languageC
Homepagehttps://www.eckhardkruse.net/atari_st/baller.html?en
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Ballerburg is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Ballerburg is an artillery game developed by Eckhard Kruse in 1987. The latest version is from 1989.[16]

Ballerburg SDL Ballerburg SDL.png 2025-03-09 Artillery game
Ballerburg SDL
Ballerburg SDL.png
Ballerburg SDL, web version
GenreArtillery game
Latest release1.2.3  (Announcement)
Release dateMarch 9th, 2025
PlatformsWindows, GNU/Linux, Web
DevelopersEckhard Kruse, Thomas Huth
Code licenseGPLv3[17][18]
Media licenseGPLv3[17][18]
P. languageC
LibrarySDL
Homepagehttps://baller.tuxfamily.org/
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Ballerburg SDL is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Ballerburg SDL is an artillery game by Thomas Huth based on Ballerburg.

Zero Ballistics Zero Ballistics.jpg 2010-12-18 Artillery game
Zero Ballistics
Zero Ballistics.jpg
GenreArtillery game
Latest release2.0
Release dateDecember 18th, 2010
PlatformsWindows, GNU/Linux
Developerquanticode
Code licenseMIT[19]
Media licenseMIT[19]
P. languageC++
LibraryBoost, RakNet, SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, CEGUI
Homepagehttp://www.zeroballistics.com/
Contribute
Zero Ballistics is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Zero Ballistics is a multiplayer only tank combat game.

As the developer team did not find a publisher for Zero Ballistics, development was halted and the game released as an unmaintained Open Source project.[20]



  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 README file at the code repository
  2. ↑ LICENSE file at the code repository
  3. ↑ the fairly well hidden media license
  4. ↑ Wormux becomes Warmux (November 21st, 2010)
  5. ↑ Copyright text file on WarMUX' SVN repository
  6. ↑ Wormux-data's copyright file at Debian packages
  7. ↑ WarMUX blog post on 11.01
  8. ↑ Scorched3d copyright file at Debian packages
  9. ↑ Github release of 44
  10. ↑ Sourceforge release of 44
  11. ↑ Sourceforge project page for scorched3d
  12. ↑ sourceforge page
  13. ↑ atanks' copyright file at Debian Packages
  14. ↑ Requirement page accessed August 31th, 2009
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 English Ballerburg section of Eckhard Kruse's homepage, acc. 2023-12-31
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 README.TXT of the package baller_sources.zip, acc. 2023-12-31
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 README.txt, acc. 2023-12-31
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Homepage of Ballerburg SDL, acc. 2023-12-31
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 https://sourceforge.net/p/zeroballistics/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/LICENSE
  20. ↑ http://quanticode.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=172#p519
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