Ricochet

Ricochet is a puzzle game. You guide a photon of light through 18 levels of fun, using various blocks to control it.

It is written in C++ using SDL.

Download

Ricochet 1.0 (source): http://22bits.exofire.net/downloads/ricochet-1.0.tar.gz

Ricochet 1.0 (Windows executable): http://22bits.exofire.net/downloads/ricochet-1.0.zip

Installation

From source

You'll need the following packages before you can install Ricochet from source.

A C++ compiler
Cmake build tool to generate Makefiles.
SDL
SDL_image
SDL_ttf

Once you've got that installed, get the tarball and extract it. Go to the directory and type:

cmake .
make ricochet

If it compiled successfully you can read on. If not drop me a mail at nsm.nikhil gmail com.

Executable

Extract the zip file to a convenient location and run ricochet.bat

Usage

Linux

Run ricochet.sh from your file manager or shell.

If it doesn't have has executable permissions you can:

chmod +x ricochet.sh

Then you can run ricochet.sh from anywhere and the game will start. It is recommended that you use ricochet.sh and not directly execute src/ricochet since ricochet.sh makes sure Ricochet starts in the right directory so that all the images and level files are found.

Windows

Run ricochet.bat

Todo

Add more levels
Release windows executable

How to Play

See the documentation.

Creating levels

See the Editor documentation.