GridWars

About

GridWars is a game built with the BlitzMax game engine (a BASIC-like scripting language), maintained here to improve compatibility with embedded systems such as the Raspberry Pi; it runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Getting started

Building it requires the BlitzMax compiler — either the official one or the BMX-NG fork, which has better ARM and cross-compilation support. Linux and Raspberry Pi builds need several system libraries installed first, and cross-compiling to the Raspberry Pi requires manually creating cross-compiler symlinks and patching a build flag that otherwise fails.

History

GridWars was originally created by Mark Incitti in 2006.

Media

Additional notes

Build note

The last compiler version confirmed to work with this project is BMX-NG 0.138.3.53.