GROUPS SHALL NOT BE TOLERATED

Reons is a reflex and strategy game based in an electronic themed environment.
You are the Creator. Reons are Your creatures. They were designed for solitary life, as You are in front of your computer. Until they became gregarious and reproductive. Their grouping is an insult to Your Solitude. You must disband them.

THEY ARE TOGETHER. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

Reons was developed under the Global Game Jam 2009 rules:
"As long as we have each other we will never run out of problems"

Paris timezone adjectives to be implemented:
- developing
- falsifying
- trapped

The theme and adjective were implemented from the Reons point of view instead of the user point of view. As long as Reons have each other they can reproduce, heal, but will be subject to the user's wrath, seen as a godly figure who has decided that Reons must live alone, as he is.

The applied adjective is developing, as Reons develop as long as they are together.
Additionally trapping and isolating a Reon is a weapon usable by the user.

Game Submission

Version: 

1.0

Installation Notes: 

Reons works on 32bit GNU/Linux systems.

Distribution for other systems will be developed at a later stage.

Reons requires the following to work:
* Python (2.5 preferred) http://www.python.org/
* Pygame (1.8.1 preferred) http://www.pygame.org
* python-opengl (3.0.0 preferred) http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/
* SDL and SDL-mixer (1.2) http://www.libsdl.org/

These packages are probably provided by your
favorite Linux distribution...

A Graphic Card with OpenGL capabilities is needed.
(Tested on Nvidia GeForce7400 and
ATI Radeon 7500)

For an obscure reason, the archive file has been renamed after upload, so you will have to rename it to "reons.tar.bz2" to decompress it easily.

After extraction, Reons can be played by running "reon.sh" from the release directory.

Brief Play Description: 

You must separate the groups, even if it means their deaths.
Three weapons are available, bombs, viruses and walls.

• Bombs do not kill but scare the Reons away.
• Viruses can be inoculated to a Chosen Reon to help him live in Your Solitude, as the others will flee him.
• Walls to isolate Reons in Your Solitude.

Controls are mouse and keyboard based:

• Click to act.
• UP & DOWN ARROWS to change action
• LEFT & RIGHT ARROWS to circle around the world.

Game Files: 

reons.tar_.bz2