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Sound Walk #1: BOFH

This is a 0:46 soundwalk of BOFH . Music not turned off. [ download ogg vorbis ]

BOFH: Servers Under Siege

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BOFH title screen: NINJAS AND PIr.. SERVERS! (and whips and guns) BOFH is a top-down shooter that takes place in a school. You're a mean administrator and have to shoot bad guys, take their weapons and disarm bombs attached to server stacks by finding notes that tell you in what order to cut the wires! Now this might sound overly simple, but the enemy AI make the mindless shooting interesting enough by reacting to gunshots sounds and having non-naive movement patterns. I haven't progressed too far in the game so far, so I can only say that there is a new enemy type on a higher building floor, maybe there's even more, probably at least a boss battle. Music and sounds are just excellent, although I sometimes wish there was more than one in-game track. The game was originally (.exe here) made for c64 and then ported to PC. I tested neuromancer's version which contains fixes and compiles with no problems on my Linux flavor of choice. Forks (and suggestions ) are welcome b...