Introduction
Timewave is a 2-d space shooter written in C++ using some of the freely available SDL libraries. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX (10.4 or later). The object of this game is to fight through the mass of enemies in each level, defeat the level boss, and finally destroy the (well-armed) enemy space station far from Earth.
It has an interesting “twist” in which you can alter the flow of time. Build up your time meter by playing the game in fast-forward. Playing in slow motion affords you some extra maneuvering room but depletes the meter. If you achieve a high score, you can choose a color flag to represent your ship and have yourself recorded on the high score table.
This game is ‘freeware’ – you can download it and copy it around to anyone you like, you can even alter the graphics to better suit your tastes if you wish, but don’t pull my name off it and try to pass it off as your own work. You can’t get the source code though because it’s a total wreck. I may go and try cleaning it up later for a release, but until then, the binaries in the download should work just fine.
Screenshots
Last updated Aug. 7, 2007 – click for full-size
Recent Changelog
- Reduction in resource file sizes: some items converted to 256-color, optipng and audio editing shaved further bytes.
- Renamed hiscore.dat to config.ini, and added more options.
- New command line options: -f (switch to Fullscreen mode), -c (Create Config: just write config.ini and exit), -w (switch to Windowed mode)
- Added a “Change Keys” button which allows users to alter the inputs.
- Added “Arcade Mode” switch to the config.ini file. This causes the game to simulate an arcade machine on Free Play: the title screen rotates with the high score table.
- The arrow keys now drive the cursor on the high score color picker table.
- Mac OSX port (PPC / Intel Universal Binary, 10.4 or greater).
Downloads
Last updated May 3, 2012
- Timewave Win32 (.zip) – v1.2, 12.2 MB
- Timewave Mac OSX (zipped .dmg) – v1.2, 13.1 MB
- Timewave Linux (.tar.gz) – v1.2, 11.6 MB