Hedgewars - a turn-based strategy game

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Description

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This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play—hilarious fun

that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. **Hedgewars** is a **turn-based strategy

game** but the real buzz is from watching the **devastation caused by those

pesky hedgehogs** with those fantastic weapons—sneaky little blighters with

a bad attitude!

Each player controls a **team of up to 8 hedgehogs**. During the course of

the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use

whatever tools and weapons are available to **attack and kill the opponents'

hedgehogs**, thereby winning the game.

To destroy your foes you can use one out of **over 40 weapons**!

Launch bazookas or homing bees, drop mines, dynamite or explosive rubber ducks,

throw grenades or watermelon bombs, poison them with stinky cheese, send them

flying with a baseball bat, and much more!

Most weapons cause **explosions that deform the terrain**, removing

circular chunks. Hedgehogs can die by drowning, being thrown off

either side of the arena, or when their health is reduced to zero.

Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by

walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the rope

or parachute, to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each **turn is

time-limited** to ensure that players do not hold up the game with

excessive thinking or moving.

Getting started

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For complete beginners we recommend to play in singleplayer mode first.

Start with the Basic Movement Training found in the training menu.

Proceed with the other training missions.

After completing the training, try to play some quick matches against the

computer (also found in the singleplayer menu).

Hedgewars has many weapons, so play a few matches to get a better feeling

for them.

In-depth information about the game can be found online:

* <https://hedgewars.org/start>: Getting Started

* <https://hedgewars.org/wiki.html>: Hedgewars Wiki

Default controls (excerpt)

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The most important default controls are:

* Cursor keys: Walk and aim

* Mouse: Move camera

* Right mouse button: Open ammo menu

* Left mouse button: Select target or weapon

* Space bar: Shoot

* Left shift: Precise (this is a modifier key)

* Precise + Up/Down: Precise aiming

* Precise + Left/Right: Turn around without walking

* Hold down Precise: Prevent slipping on ice

* Enter: Jump

* Backspace: High jump

* Backspace ×2: Backjump

* Tab: Switch hedgehog (after activating the utility)

* 1-5: Set weapon timer

* F1-F10: Weapon shortcuts

* P: Pause, when playing offline, toggle automatic turn skipping when online

* Esc: Quit with prompt (also shows mission panel)

* T: Chat

* U: Team chat

For the full list, go to the Hedgewars settings. Also read the weapon tooltips

for weapon-specific controls.

### Special controls

These are lesser-known controls of Hedgewars, they are based on your

configured controls:

* Precise + Toggle hedgehog tags: Change visible hedgehog tags (team name/hog name/health)

* Switch + Toggle hedgehog tags: Toggle hedgehog tag translucency

* Precise + Toggle team bars + Switch: Toggle HUD

* Precise + Capture (screenshot key): Save current map + mask into Screenshot directory

Installation instructions

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See the `INSTALL.md` file.

Or see our wiki at <https://hedgewars.org/kb/BuildingHedgewars>.

Source code

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Our main repository is located at <https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/> using

Mercurial as DVCS. A Git repository is also available (mirrored daily)

at <https://github.com/hedgewars/hw>.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hedgewars/hw.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/hedgewars/hw)

Contribute

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If you see a bug or have any suggestion please use the official bug tracker at

<https://hedgewars.org/bugs> or the integrated feedback button.

If you want to help or get to know the sources better you can do that with some

easy tasks from <https://hedgewars.org/kb/TODO>. We also have an extensive API

in Lua to customize your adventures. See our wiki at

<https://hedgewars.org/kb/LuaAPI>.

If you know your way through the code feel free to send a patch or open a pull

request. The best Lua scripts get released in the official DLC page and later

integrated in the next version.

Licence and credits

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This game is free software (“free” as in “freedom”). Source code is

distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2;

images and sounds are distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation

Licence version 1.2. See the `COPYING` file for the full text of the licenses.

See `QTfrontend/res/html/about.html` and `CREDITS` for a more complete list of

authors.

Contact

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* Homepage        - https://hedgewars.org/

* IRC channel     - irc://irc.freenode.net/hedgewars

* Community forum - https://hedgewars.org/forum

* Mailing list    - https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/hedgewars-dev