OpenMortal

About the game

OpenMortal (also called Mortal Szombat) is a fighting game and is a parody of the proprietary game Mortal Kombat. It is licensed under the GPL. The latest version of the game is 0.7.1 released on June 15th, 2006, while the earliest listed is 0.2 from February 21, 2003. It is written in the Perl and C++ programming languages.

Instructions are provided on how to create new, realistic characters, so players and their friends could serve as actors for the game. As of 2008-05-30, there were 24 characters at http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/characters.cgi. Although the assets are released under the GPL, the re-use of the character graphics are complicated by personality rights issues. This has not stopped versions of the characters being released for the proprietary M.U.G.E.N engine (possibly compatible with Ikmen).

The game is not available in Debian, because its would-be maintainer found that it seemed dead since 2006, and thus he would have to deal with all the potential bug reports. It was removed for Fedora Extras from similar reasons. The game was included on the LinuxCenter Game Collection from 2004.

Technical notes

Imported from LibreGameWiki. Verify platform-specific requirements on the linked project/download page before installing.