Frozen Bubble

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Frozen Bubble

Developer(s)	Guillaume Cottenceau
Publisher(s)	Guillaume Cottenceau
Designer(s)	Guillaume Cottenceau
Engine	SDL, Perl
Release date(s)	February 8, 2002 February 17, 2003 (version 1.0) October 27, 2006 (version 2.0.0) November 23, 2006 (version 2.1.0)
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single player, Two player, Multiplayer (2 to 5 players)
Rating(s)	N/A
Platform(s)	Linux, Windows(version 1.0.0 only), Mac OS X, Java, Symbian, gp2x
Media	open source package
System requirements	SDL compatible platform, 64MB RAM
Input	Keyboard and joystick

Frozen Bubble is a free software Puzzle Bobble style computer game which is available on several operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and the Symbian Series 60 line of smartphones. There is also a single player Java applet version.

The original Frozen Bubble was written in Perl by Guillaume Cottenceau, and uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library. The game features 100 levels and includes a level editor. Like many popular free software/open source games, it features penguins a la Tux, who in this game shoot the coloured frozen bubbles to form groups of the same colour. Such groups disappear and the object is to clear the whole screen in this way before a bubble passes a line at the bottom.

Version 2.0 offers multiplayer play via LAN and Internet. This version is presently for Linux only.

The game is released under the GNU General Public License.