Abuse - Wiki

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.
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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

Page maintained by ​Sam Hocevar

Contact me if you want to help in any way: ​sam@hocevar.net

Links

Unfortunately, most Abuse resources are now dead. Here are a few worthwile links and archived pages that really deserve to be salvaged:

• ​Cypress's Abuse page, with lots of downloads including Satan Paint and additional Abuse levels
• ​Jeremy "Marauder" Scott’s page, with Abuse for Win32, Satan Paint source code and more
• ​abuse2.com archived page, again with lots of downloads
• ​fRaBs archived page
• ​Abuse-SDL archived page

Artwork

• ArtWork?