Horizontal Shooter: a sweet, small, beautiful & free game

Horizontal Shooter is a free, little but beautiful game.
Just watch the video to get the idea. You control with the mouse, shoot with the left button and destroy enemy bullets with your colorful tail.

The game is free & works with wine. (F3 to switch from DirectX to OpenGL)

clipped from jayenkai.socoder.net H~S : Horizontal Shooter download H~S : Horizontal Shooter here. Watch Video Fly about, shoot the bad guys, guard the good guys. Your ship now stays firmly onscreen, there’s lots more explosions, and the good guys on the left are now additional lives incase you need ‘em. Of course, if they get hit, they still blow up, so you’d better be extra careful protecting them. As before, you use your tail to catch incoming enemy bullets to shield the little fellows. Meanwhile, the onslaught continues, and you can splash your nice laser at the enemy using the left mouse button. Sweeeee!!! Your weapon’s temperature is on the top left, let it reach 99 and you’ll have to cool it down. It’s fairly rapid, though, so shouldn’t take to long to do so. In fact, there’s little segues between each attack wave that are nicely timed to a full cool-down. Handy! In between waves, you’ll also score extra points for each ship you’ve kept alive. A little like missile command, only with ships!

What & How To install in a fresh Ubuntu

I recently re-structured all my partitions on all my harddrives & re-installed Ubuntu 8.04 (among other OSs) from scratch. Every time I do this, I need to stop & think on what software I want installed. So I compiled a little list on stuff to do & to install after a fresh setup as a personal reminder. While I don’t plan on repeating this experience – I’ve cloned an image of the freshly installed & set up Ubuntu with Clonezilla – it still might be handy to have such a list lying around (online), so I decided to share it.

This is by no means a definitive list, or the only way to install these applications, but more a personal preference, as I want some specific applications to be the latest version, not the one in the default ubuntu repositories.

From the default Ubuntu repositories:

• Ubuntu restricted extras (mp3, dvd, flash, java, ms fonts…)
• lame, mp3gain, gstreamer plugins (various)
• Abiword (gnome edition) + plugins
  • lightweight word processor
• Amarok (1.4.9.1)
  • KDE app, but essential
  • Amarok Scripts:
    • ConTEXT
    • CopyCover
    • WikiLyrics (through Amaroks Script Manager)
• Armagetron Advanced (0.2.8.2.1)
  • addictive tron-cycle game (online multiplayer)
• Bluefish editor
• Chm viewer
• Compiz advanced desktop effect settings
  • to personalize eyecandy & tweak usability
• Compiz fusion icon
  • easy switching between window managers (useful for certain full screen games)
• DeVeDe
• Easy Crypt (a TrueCrypt GUI)
  • encrypt folders & filesystems for privacy & security
• EasyTAG
• gedit-plugins (for gnome text-editor)
• GIMP Image Editor
• Gmount-iso
  • easy mounting of ISO files
• Gnome Partition Editor (gparted)
• GnuCash
• GTetrinet
  • online multiplayer tetris combat
• Inkscape
• Iso Master
  • read, write & extract iso files (among others)
• K3b
  • KDE app for burning CDs/DVDs
• k9copy
  • KDE app for shrinking/converting DVDs
• kdissert
  • treebuilding/mindmapping tool
• KeePassX
  • password manager
• Miro Internet TV
• Mozilla:
  • Firefox (+extensions):
    • Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 (+ Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3)
    • Add to Search Bar 1.7
    • All-in-One Gestures 0.19.1
    • All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.4
    • Better GReader 0.4
    • BugMeNot 2.0
    • Clipmarks 3.5.0
    • CustomizeGoogle 0.75
    • Diigo 3.1.6.1
    • DownThemAll! 1.0.3
    • Greasemonkey
    • Image Zoom 0.3.1
    • NoScript 1.3.2
    • PDF Download 2.0.0.0
    • ScrapBook 1.3.2.5
    • StumbleUpon 3.18
    • Tabs Open Relative 0.3.3
    • Undo Closed Tabs Button 3.0.3
  • Thunderbird (+extensions):
    • Display Mail User Agent
    • Quote Collapse
    • Quote Colors
    • Show Address
    • Web Mail (& hotmail, maildotcom, yahoo)
      • pop3 access for webmail accounts
• Mplayer
• nautilus actions (gedit, sudo, scripts & other)
  • right-click nautilus extensions
• netspeed applet (for gnome panel)
• Open Office (full suite)
• Prism (Google Docs, Google Talk)
• Soundconverter
• Sun Java
• Tellico
  • all round collection manager
• Tilda
  • a quake/yakuake clone
• Totem Media Player
• Wireshark
• Xchat

Third Party Repositories

For the following applications I added their repositories, since these offer either software that you cannot find in the default Ubuntu repositories or later versions of that software. I prefer adding repositories to downloading .deb files or other, because this way you get notified of updates.

• Deluge Bittorrent 1.0
  • deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ubuntu hardy main
• Electric Sheep
  • deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/flam3/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/flam3/ubuntu hardy main
• Google
  • Picasa 2.7
    • wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
      apt-get update
    • deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
• Gnome-Do 0.6
  • deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main
  • You might want to install the version that comes with the default ubuntu repository, as this 0.6 version seems to have some bugs.
• Medibuntu
  • Google Earth 4.3, Adobe Reader 8, libdvdcss2, etc.
    • sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
• Playdeb (recent games):
  • deb mirror://www.getdeb.net/playdeb-mirror/hardy/// hardy/
    • Alien Arena
    • atanks
    • Open Arena
    • Nexuiz
    • Second Life
    • Sauerbraten
    • Wormux
• VLC Media Player (latest 0.9.3)
  • deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main
• Virtualbox 2.0.2 (non-free)
  • deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
  • (+ add yourself to the vboxusers group)
• Wine 1.1.5
  • wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

Downloaded from separate sites:

• Easy Stroke
  • mouse gestures for the gnome desktop
• Zattoo Player (Internet TV)
• Nautilus Scripts

Windows Apps:

• Babo Violent 2.11
  • an online multiplayer top-down shooter