What is iMaze?
iMaze is a multi player, real time, 3D, labyrinth, run & shoot game.
See the README
for a short description of the game and background information.
Where to get iMaze
iMaze 1.4 sources and contrib files are available from
download directory.
There is a German documentation of version 1.0 in
HTML and Acrobat PDF.
Where to play?
If you don't have fellows to play with, you're probably looking
for non-local servers somewhere around the world.
State of Development
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iMaze 1.0 was released on Friday May 27, 1994.
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iMaze 1.1 was released on Saturday July 16, 1994.
It includes:
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Sound support for Sun and Linux
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Joystick support for Linux
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Some important bug fixes
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iMaze 1.2 was released on Saturday December 17, 1994.
Enhancements include:
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X resources
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Client doesn't terminate after disconnect,
can reconnect to same or other server
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Input field for server name
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Timeout for the ninja (some people always forget to kill them)
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Message that is told to the victim when he gets killed,
e.g. the killer's name
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Score
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Some minor bug fixes
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Better Solaris 2 support
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3D bugs fixed
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iMaze 1.3 was released on Friday February 23, 1996.
Enhancements include:
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Motif support
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Support for several new platforms
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iMaze 1.4 was released on Monday December 10, 2001.
Enhancements include:
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new Copyright licence
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Athena Widgets support
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sound for Motif and Athena Widgets
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new command line options
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server options for game speed, reflective shots, autoanswer shots,
quickturns, and faceless, colorless or invisible players
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labyrinth editor xlabed
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camera mode
Of course we have enough ideas for further versions of iMaze, but no time to implement them.
So don't ask for the next version, but add yourself whatever your want.
Related projects
- MidiMaze Fan-Page The original game for Atari ST
- Markus Fritze Developer of MidiMaze II
- MiMaze by INRIA. A Multicast Maze game based on iMaze
- ixMaze derived from iMaze with additional features.
- TheMaze. Another Maze game available for Unix, Dos and Atari.
- glMaze Maze game with OpenGL graphics
Page created: Jul 11, 1994 -
last update: Apr 19, 2002
EMail: imaze@tu-clausthal.de
Hans-Ulrich Kiel,
Jörg Czeranski
