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= About =

Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful lighting, realistic animation and nasty alien-like creatures to destroy.

This is the new home to Abuse and Abuse-SDL. I took over maintenance of that game to prevent it from vanishing from the Internet.

Since Abuse's public domain release in 1997, the following improvements were made:
 * video output uses the SDL library, with optional OpenGL rendering
 * 64-bit platforms support
 * lots of crashes, memory leaks and general bugs fixed

= Plans =

There is no precise roadmap yet. See the [wiki:Development development page] for information about development and the [/timeline timeline] to see what’s going on right now.

My current plans are:
 * get network play to work again
 * merge back the CTF code that was developed for Abuse Win32
 * merge back the Mac Abuse high-resolution screens
 * allow easier edition of graphic files
 * merge `abuse-lib`, `abuse-frabs` and `abuse-data` into one big dataset
 * create free (as in speech) sound effects (my previous attempts at getting Bobby Prince to put them in the public domain didn’t get far)

I have no plans for 3D effects, a new game engine or complete rewrites. That would be an entirely separate project and I know I don’t have enough energy to lead such a project. But if you do, let me know, I’m willing to help.

= Contact =

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Page maintained by [http://sam.zoy.org/ Sam Hocevar]

Contact me if you want to help in any way: [mailto:sam@zoy.org]

= Links =

Unfortunately, most Abuse resources are now dead. Here are a few worthwile links and archived pages that really deserve to be salvaged:
 * [http://members.tripod.com/nickvrenna/about.html Cypress's Abuse page], with lots of downloads including Satan Paint and additional Abuse levels
 * [http://www.rocket-surgery.net/abuse/ Jeremy "Marauder" Scott’s page], with Abuse for Win32, Satan Paint source code and more
 * [http://web.archive.org/web/20020601032818/www.abuse2.com/ abuse2.com archived page], again with lots of downloads
 * [http://web.archive.org/web/20060427023310/http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~cass0664/fRaBs/ fRaBs archived page]
 * [http://web.archive.org/web/20070205093016/http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~trandor/abuse/ Abuse-SDL archived page]