About:
Frozen Bubble is a game in which you throw colorful bubbles and build groups to destroy the bubbles. In one-player mode, you must destroy all the bubbles to access the next level. In multi-player modes, the goal is to have your opponent die before you. Local one-player and two-player modes are supported, and networked play is supported for modes ranging from two to five players.

Author:
Guillaume Cottenceau <contact [at] frozen [dash] bubble [dot] org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.70/10.00 (56 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/
RPM package:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/
Debian package:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment, Games/Entertainment :: Arcade, Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.1.0	23-Nov-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Linux Games
  by Matt Matthews , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Aug 31st 2002 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Great game, but too easy in one player mode
by Mickaël Rémond - Jun 3rd 2003 13:05:04

Hello,

I think this game is beautiful and really cool. However, I think this game is too easy in one player mode. I can play a long, long time before loosing.
(But maybe did I miss something...)

I do not know if this is possible regarding the game play, but it would be nice to have configurable user level.

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[»] great game!; a few problems
by Ben Crowell - Jun 3rd 2003 12:32:26

This is a fantastic game! Very hypnotic to play.

A few problems:

There is a bug in the two-line shell script that you use to run the program, which prevents it from accepting command-line arguments. It should read like this:
#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc_r.so perl /usr/local/bin/frozen-bubble.pl do-install $*
The script distributed with the game is missing the $* at the end.

The game sometimes crashes X-Windows (!) in 2-player mode, and also in full-screen mode. However, this may be due to the fact that I'm using the latest version of Perl-SDL, rather than the stable version.

There's no documentation.

Running in KDE, the game doesn't respond to clicking on the X (go-away) widget in the title bar. There doesn't seem to be any documentation about how to quit the game. Pressing the Esc key sometimes works, but not always.

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[»] Re: great game!; a few problems
by Ben Crowell - Jun 4th 2003 09:02:09

Oops! My comment about the bug in the shell script was a little off-base. This script is part of the FreeBSD port, and the bug isn't the fault of the original Frozen Bubble developers.

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[»] Awww!
by Sini - Mar 17th 2002 16:32:26

This game is irresistably cute (beats Puzzle Bobble, even, and that says a bit) and it runs like a charm from rpm on Mandrake 8.1 (only needed to dig perl-SDL from the CD to go with it). The music is pleasant, too. More of these!

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[»] Re: Awww!
by Chris Pimlott - Mar 25th 2002 18:27:05

I must agree. The quality of this program is superb. It's easily better than the original Puzzle Bobble (for Windows) which I have wasted hundreds of hours playing. I run Debian and it works like a charm. Kudos to the authors on an excellent piece of work and also thanks to Mandrake for sponsering this program and truly giving back to the community.

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