Game of Roots

In "Game of Roots" you play a plant, or rather its roots on a quest for minerals and water. The roots can be send down, left and right and, additionally, they can split up. Handling all of the roots simultaneously with the same four keys, collecting water and avoiding poisonous waste is the main difficulty of the game.

Basically the roots always do what you want - except if they can't. Then they do something else, so watch out! With four or more roots at the same time, this can happen quite often.

=====HOW TO RUN:=====

- Windows: unzip and double-click start.bat

- Linux: Needs libsdl, libsdl-mixer, libsdl-ttf, libsdl-image and liblapack3 as dependecies. Then untar and run start.sh. If it does not start, try to run start.sh in a terminal to get an error message. The package should work under *Ubuntu 12.04+/Debian 7. Others might not work.

- OS/X: I got it working under OS/X but you have to use the source version, install python3, numpy and pygame yourself. Bundling a standalone application doesn't work :-(.

Let me know if you have problems.

----- IMPORTANT: If the screen is too big, You can SET THE RESOLUTION and other gameplay parameters in settings.txt

Created during three days with Python3 + pygame, Inkscape, Anvil Music and sfxr

by

Code: Marcus Hoffmann, Eric Zimmermann

Graphics: Stephan Waeldchen, Marcus Hoffmann

Music: Stephan Waeldchen, Eric Zimmermann

Changes:

- Fixed music not stopping in win32 build.

- Added a hopefully much more compatible Linux build. Also added dependency checking in the startup script.