Sockit

Introduction

Sockit is a little game where you play a football player. It is designed to be a multi-player game, so that you can play a game with up to nine friends. It runs as a single process displaying X displays on each players machine (you have to organise X authorisation yourself for this). It can be played with just one person (see screen-shots!),as the computer players are (quite!) intelligent. There is a complete league system.

How to run

• Download the binary (see below), and decompress in a suitable directory.
• Sockit options are as follows:

      sockit [-display]<display>... [-team <team1> <team2>] [-help]
      

  Normally, it is best to run sockit using play_last, e.g. type

      ./play_last [display1:0] [display2:0]
      

  where each display is an X display you can bring a window up on. You can add displays from the play_last menu (see the picture).
• Type your name in. Wait for everyone else to type their name.
• Play the game (each game last 3 minutes). Keys are as follows:

  Shift              - accelerate
  Ctrl               - when you have the ball, increases kick power. 
                       When released whilst the player still has the ball, the player kicks it.
  Alt key            - quick quit game key ;-)
  Left mouse button  - turn left
  Right mouse button - turn right
  

There are various utility programs that can be run. play_last can run most of these:

• create_team <team filename>. Allows you to create a new team to play football. Just follow on-screen instructions.
• print_team <team filename>. Prints a team's attributes.
• print_league <team filename>... Usually run as

  ./print_league *.team

  . Creates and prints a league table from the specified teams.
• top_scorers <team filename>... Usually run as

  ./top_scorers *.team

  . Creates and prints a table of top scorers from the specified teams.

Download

I am currently only making the binaries available. This program compiles OK under Solaris, Digital Unix and Linux.

Digital Unix (Alpha) binary (approx 87k) . Note this is really a .tar.Z file, but geocities have stopped supporting this file type!
Solaris 7 (Sparc) binary (approx 130k) . Note this is really a .tar.Z file, but geocities have stopped supporting this file type!
Linux RedHat 7.1 (2.4 kernel/i386) binary (approx 384k) . Note needs Open Motif installed to run.