This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play—hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn-based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons—sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!
Each player controls a team of up to 8 hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the rope or parachute, to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.
A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game. Hedgewars features the standard artillery-genre classics (such as grenade, cluster bomb, bazooka, shotgun), but also boasts a host of other weapons quite unique to it alone.
Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. Hedgehogs can die by drowning, being thrown off either side of the arena, or when their health is reduced to zero.
For complete beginners we recommend to start with the the first 2 or 3 missions of the campaign “A Classic Fairytale” in the singleplayer menu. It explains the basic controls and gameplay.
Note that Hedgewars doesn't have a complete tutorial yet, but it is planned to create one in future versions.
In-depth information about the game can be found online:
- https://hedgewars.org/start: Getting Started
- https://hedgewars.org/wiki.html: Hedgewars Wiki
The most important default controls are:
- Cursor keys: Walk and aim
- Mouse: Move camera
- Right mouse button: Open ammo menu
- Left mouse button: Select target or weapon
- Space bar: Shoot
- Left shift: Precise
- Left shift + Up/Down: Precise aiming
- Enter: Jump
- Backspace: High jump
- Backspace ×2: Backjump
- Tab: Switch hedgehog (after activating the utility)
- 1-5: Set weapon timer
- F1-F10: Weapon shortcuts
- P: Pause (also shows mission panel)
- Esc: Quit with prompt (also shows mission panel)
- T: Chat
For the full list, go to the Hedgewars settings. Also read the weapon tooltips for weapon-specific controls.
These are lesser-known controls of Hedgewars, they are based on your configured controls:
- Confirm: Team chat (if not confirming quit)
- Hold down Precise: Prevent slipping on ice
- Precise + Left/Right: Turn around
- Precise + Toggle team bars: Change hedgehog tabs
- Precise + Toggle team bars + Switch: Toggle HUD
- Precise + Screenshot: Save current map + mask in Screenshot directory
See the INSTALL.md file.
Or see our wiki at https://hedgewars.org/kb/BuildingHedgewars.
Our main repository is located at https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/ using Mercurial as DVCS. A Git repository is also available (mirrored daily) at https://github.com/hedgewars/hw.
If you see a bug or have any suggestion please use the official bug tracker at https://hedgewars.org/bugs or the integrated feedback button.
If you want to help or get to know the sources better you can do that with some easy tasks from https://hedgewars.org/kb/TODO. We also have an extensive API in Lua to customize your adventures. See our wiki at https://hedgewars.org/kb/LuaAPI.
If you know your way through the code feel free to send a patch or open a pull request. The best Lua scripts get released in the official DLC page and later integrated in the next version.
This game is free software (“free” as in “freedom”). Source code is
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2;
images and sounds are distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
Licence version 1.2. See the COPYING file for the full text of the licenses.
Copyright 2004-2015 Andrey Korotaev unC0Rr@gmail.com and others.
See QTfrontend/res/html/about.html and CREDITS for a more complete list of
authors.
- Homepage - https://hedgewars.org/
- IRC channel - irc://irc.freenode.net/hedgewars
- Community forum - https://hedgewars.org/forum
- Mailing list - https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/hedgewars-dev