NEWS

2003/02/06 KOTH 0.8.0 released - Download here
Check the new screenshots
2003/01/15 Mailing List created, click here to subscribe
2002/12/30 KOTH 0.7.7 released ! Download it here
or if you have Debian, try: apt-get install koth

KOTH ?

King of the Hill (KOTH) is a multiplayer, networked artillery game of little tanks with really big weapons set out to destroy one another. Best-known games of this type include the classic DOS game "Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games" and "Scorched Tanks" for the Amiga, but the concept has been implemented on everything from the TI-85 graphing calculator on up. KOTH seeks to build on the best ideas from these games while also taking a fresh, approach including an open, network-centric architecture and concurrent progressive event modeling.

Features

Supports up to ten players at once, with unlimited observers (ten only because beyond that the game would get unwieldy, not an architectural limitation)
Players can join and leave at any time without disrupting the game
Pregame and In-game color-coded chat
Buy and sell various types of neat weapons to use against your enemies
Fractal-tessalation terrain generating algorithm produces endless variations of interesting terrain (before you start blowing massing craters into it that is
Falling dirt and falling damage to tanks
Lightweight, asynchronous networking protocol - perfectly playable on a modem over the Internet even with high pingtime
LibGGI for portable graphics. Currently supports 8/15/16/24/32 bits per pixel in any resolution
Free software so anyone can and is encouraged to add in their own favorite weapons, equipment, and other features.

Download

Atention: Currently download area is down. The latest source is here
Download area
KOTH is also available as Debian package, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/koth DISTRIBUTION main
Replace "DISTRIBUTION" with your Debian version (stable, testing or unstable); and run apt-get update ; apt-get install koth
Obs: Yes, there are official packages in the debian distribution, the unstable one is up-to-date, but don't try the stable and testing packages, they are obsolet.
CVS Snapshot (updated every night...)

If you need the LibGGI graphics library, get it at ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi/ggi/current/. You need both libggi and libgii.

Contact

Current Maintainer: Allan Douglas <allan_douglas AT gmx.net>
Original Autor: Peter Amstutz <tetron AT interreality.org>