Solar Conquest
Beta 0.2, April 2, 2006

Copyright (C) 2005 Greg Beaman

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Notice:
This program uses the SDL, SDL Image, and SDL Mixer APIs.
These libraries are distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL license:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

The source is available from the libraries page at the SDL website:
http://www.libsdl.org/

The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platfrom library
designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and
emulators.

The Simple DirectMedia Layer library source code is available from:
http://www.libsdl.org/

Install:
If the pre-compiled binary doesn't work, you *should* be able to just run make in the folder with the makefile. It might be necessary to twiddle
with the library and include directories (some distros stick things in /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, etc).

The game also has to be run from a terminal instead of a file manager, as far as I've seen, so that it loads the media correctly.

About:
Solar Conquest is a space-based action game. You are a fighter pilot helping a rebellion fend off
a corrupt Admrial. The game features 2 teams, with your team being colored blue, and the enemy team
using a red color scheme. This version has 5 levels, a skirmish mode, and a variety of enemies and
allies.

Controls:
W and S keys move your ship forward and backward.
A and D keys move your ship sideways.
Move the mouse to point your ship, and left mouse button to fire.

Goal:
The overall goal of each mission is to destroy several large stations or carriers. You must keep your
carriers alive, otherwise you lose the mission.

Hope you enjoy the game! If you have any problems, you can e-mail me at rrf_machine@sajthelper.com (also works as an MSN address).

Credits:
Sweden-MB - Website hosting and layout
Greg Beaman - Programming, Design

Libraries:
SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer - http://www.libsdl.org/