Space Nerds In Space is an open source multiplayer networked spaceship bridge simulator game inspired by another game called "Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator" It is still a work in progress, but it is substantially far along, and reasonably free of bugs as far as I know (the game should not crash, in other words.)
Here is some video from February 2019, at HackRVA in Richmond, Virginia:
Features:
- Terminals for Navigation, Weapons, Engineering, Damage Control, Comms, Science, and Game Master.
- Multi-crew (multiple bridges) supported
- Terminals may join/leave/re-join games at any time.
- Asteroid mining
- Bounty hunting
- Travel between instances of the game via warp gates in an arbitrarily large universe of solar systems.
- Dock at starbases to repair your ship, buy/sell various commodities, sell mined ore, obtain warp gate tickets, etc.
- Lua scripting API for mission scenarios.
- Voice chat
- And of course, fly around and shoot stuff.
Note: This game is meant to be played on a LAN with all players in the same room. Bandwidth requirements are on the order of 100k/s per client.
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How to build the game from source (or see below):
https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/#buildinstructions
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How to run the game on a single machine (single player):
https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/#singlemachineinstructions
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How to run with a multi-player LAN setup:
https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/#multiplayerinstructions
If you would like to help work on this project, see CONTRIBUTING.md. There is also a guide to the code here: Hacking Space Nerds In Space. Here is documentation for the Lua scripting API intended to be used for creating "mission scripts".
Here is a long, boring video demonstrating how to install
These instructions are a duplicate of what is found here: https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/#buildinstructions
This is a linux game. You will need a computer running linux. A raspberry pi doesn't count, it's not powerful enough. The game is currently developed using Mint 17.3 It is within the realm of possibility that the game could be made to build and work on Mac OSX (it has been done before, but not within the last couple years.) You're on your own if you want to try to run it on Mac.
Build dependencies
Perform these steps as root:
apt-get install build-essential;
apt-get install portaudio19-dev;
apt-get install libpng-dev;
apt-get install libvorbis-dev;
apt-get install libsdl2-dev;
apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0;
apt-get install liblua5.2-dev;
apt-get install libglew-dev;
apt-get install libssl-dev;
apt-get install libttspico-utils; # for text to speech
apt-get install sox; # for "play" command, used by text to speech
# (The following are optional)
apt-get install espeak; # optional alternative to libttspico-utils
apt-get install alsa-utils; # optional alternative to sox, for "aplay" command
apt-get install openscad; # optional, only needed if you intend to work on 3D models.
# Also, it is recommended to get it from http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html
# as the version in the repos tends to be out of date.
apt-get install git; # Version control, useful if you're hacking on the game
apt-get install stgit; # Useful for making patches if you're hacking on the game. It's like "quilt" but on top of git.
If you want to try the optional pocketsphinx based local speech recognition, you will want the following packages:
apt-get install pocketsphinx-utils;
apt-get install pocketsphinx-lm-en-hub4;
apt-get install pocketsphinx-lm-en-hub4;
apt-get install libpocketsphinx1;
The above list may be incomplete, and these are the package names on mint 17.3 / ubuntu, so may be different on RPM based systems.
NOTE: problems building on SuSE Leap 15.1. The following problems/solutions have been conveyed to me regarding SuSE Leap 15.1. This information is not very complete or accurate, but it is the best I have for now. Please feel free to send me improvements to these instructions. See Bug 222.
- Need to install pkg-config and pkg-config_files.
- Need to set pkg-config-path environment variable
- All references to lua 5.2 in the Makefile need to be changed to lua 5.3. Note, we only compiled snis_client (via "make bin/snis_client") which shouldn't need lua at all. I don't know if the differences between lua 5.3 and lua 5.2 are significant enough to break things. I normally use lua 5.2 on my systems. Changes to Lua 5.3 -- at a quick glance I didn't see anything that I think will be problematic.
The source code is here: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space
NOTE: Do NOT perform these steps as root!
To get the source code, there are three methods:
If you are a registered github user, type (as a non-root user):
git clone git@github.com:smcameron/space-nerds-in-space.git
If not a registered github user, you can still use git with https. Type (as a non-root user):
git clone https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space.git
Finally, you can just download a snapshot zipfile without using git at all: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/archive/master.zip
After downloading the zip file, you must unpack the zip file. Type (as a non-root user):
unzip space-nerds-in-space-master.zip
cd space-nerds-in-space-master
To build the code, make sure you are in the top level directory for the game ("space-nerds-in-space" if you got the source using git, or "space-nerds-in-space-master" if you downloaded the zip file), and type (as a non-root user):
make
You should see quite a lot of output, like this:
COMPILE mathutils.c
COMPILE snis_alloc.c
COMPILE snis_socket_io.c
... many steps omitted here ...
LINK bin/snis_server
LINK bin/snis_client
LINK bin/snis_limited_client
LINK bin/snis_multiverse
If you have problems building the code, it likely means there is some missing dependency. Double check that you have all the required dependencies installed.
You can also file a bug report if you think you have discovered a problem with the build process, or the instructions here. I believe you will need a github account to file a bug report.
Click here to file a bug report.
Or you can skip to step 5 and download them (recommended). This step will take a long time and requires that you installed OpenSCAD. In general, unless you are working on the models, you can skip this step. (Again, as a non-root user):
make models
If you skipped step 4 and didn't build the openscad models, they will be downloaded in this step, along with some other things. This step requires an internet connection. If you performed step 4, you may skip this step though it is not recommended, as you will be missing some additional solarsystem assets. As a non-root user:
make update-assets
(Try this before trying multiplayer)
Type (as a non-root user):
$ ./snis_launcher
Welcome to Space Nerds In Space
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No SNIS processes are currently running.
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1. Launch SNIS lobby server
The lobby server allows clients to find servers
There should be one lobby server total.
2. Launch SNIS multiverse server
The multiverse server stores player ship data
There should be one multiverse server total
3. Launch SNIS server
There should be one snis server per solarsystem.
There should be at least one instance of snis_server.
4. Launch SNIS client process
There should be one snis client process per player
plus one more per ship for the main screen.
5. Launch limited SNIS client process (no Open GL required).
6. Stop all SNIS processes
7. Stop all SNIS clients
8. Stop all SNIS servers
9. Check for asset updates
10. Enter Lobby Host IP addr (currently localhost)
0. Quit
Choose [0-10]: _
Choose option 1, then option 2, then option 3, then option 4 (taking defaults for any questions you might be asked.)