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Lix: Lemmings-like game with puzzles, editor, multiplayer

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Lix

Lix is an action-puzzle game inspired by Lemmings (DMA Design, 1991). Lix is free and open source.

Assign skills to guide the lix through over 600 singleplayer puzzles. Design your own levels with the included editor.

Attack and defend in real-time multiplayer for 2 to 8 players: Who can save the most lix?

Lix screenshot

Download

Download icon Download Lix for Windows or Linux

Mac or other systems: Build from source, see below.

License/Copying/Public domain

Lix's code, graphic sets, sprites, levels, sound effects, and some music tracks (but not all music tracks) are released into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication.

The text font DejaVu Sans and some music tracks have their own licenses. Full license/copying text

Networked multiplayer

Lix has competitive multiplayer: Route as many lix as possible into your exit, even if they're your opponents' lix.

The easiest way to play networked games is on our central server: From Lix's main menu, go to Network Game and check “Play on the central server”.

Alternatively, you can host private games independently from the central server. Check “Host a game yourself” in the Network Game menu, then tell your friends to connect to your machine via “Connect to somebody else”. To host, UDP port 22934 must be forwarded to your machine, or you can agree on a different UDP port with your players.

It's possible to run your own standalone server outside of Lix. To build this server program, $ cd src/server/, then $ dub build, switch back to Lix's base directory with $ cd ../../ and run the server with $ bin/server. The server will listen on UDP port 22934; you can choose a different port by $ bin/server --port=<number>.

Build instructions

Detailed instructions:

Quick build instructions:

  • Install a D compiler and dub, the build system:
  • Install Allegro 5.2 and enet 1.3:
    • On Windows, follow my detailed build instructions .
    • On Arch Linux, install the packages pkgconf, allegro, and enet.
    • On Debian or Ubuntu, install the packages pkg-config, liballegro5-dev, and libenet-dev.
    • On Fedora 29, install the packages pkgconf-pkg-config, allegro5-devel, allegro5-addon-acodec-devel, allegro5-addon-audio-devel, allegro5-addon-image-devel, allegro5-addon-ttf-devel, and enet-devel.
    • On other Linuxes or Mac, follow my detailed build instructions .
  • Build Lix: $ dub build -b release or, on Windows, run win-build.bat.
  • Download the game music, extract in Lix's directory.
  • Run Lix: $ bin/lix

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