Strife
Developer(s)	Rogue Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Velocity
Engine	Doom
Release date(s)	1996
Genre(s)	First-person shooter, role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer 2-4 player deathmatch or CoOp
Rating(s)	ESRB: Mature (M)
Platform(s)	PC
Media	CD

Strife, published in 1996, is a computer game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine from id Software. Strife added some role-playing game elements and allowed players to talk to other characters in the game's world. Image File history File links Strife_box_cover. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Rogue Entertainment was a computer game developer based in Dallas, Texas, which was active in the late 1990s. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... A game engine is the core software component of a video game. ... Doom Engine is a psychedelic doom metal band based in Oxfordshire. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Doom, one of the games that defined the first-person shooter genre. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... Online gaming redirects here. ... The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States. ... Time share terminals to central computers were sometimes used before the advent of the PC. (A smart terminal — televideo ASCII character mode terminal made around 1982. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about computer and video games. ... Rogue Entertainment was a computer game developer based in Dallas, Texas, which was active in the late 1990s. ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ... id Software is a computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ...

The world is a comprehensive environment, not divided into levels like most other 3D shooters of the time. Instead, the player travels from a cental hub-like area in the city between various levels which will stay the same as when the player left them.

The player can talk to NPCs and some decisions affect the future gameplay. The game also has several paths to follow (for example, at one point the player can kill Macil, the rebel leader, or decide to still trust him), and can result in one of 3 different endings. A non-player character (NPC) is a character in a role-playing game whose actions are determined by the gamemaster. ...

Even though the game brought many improvements to the Doom engine, it was released too late and could not compete graphically with other games that were being released at that time, including id Software's Quake. Zombies attacking the player. ...

A source port of Strife using ZDoom as a base now contains the code necessary to run Strife. This allows high resolution video modes, better mouselook, and expanded modability. The game was reverse engineered by the ZDoom team. Strife can also be played in the source port program Vavoom. Another source port has also been made by Kaiser based on guesswork entitled SvStrife. A source port is a source code modification to a computer games engine that allows it to be played on operating systems for which it was not originally created or compatible with. ... ZDoom is a port of the official Doom source code. ... Free look (also known as mouselook) is a term that describes the ability to move the mouse to rotate the player characters view in first-person shooter games or flight simulators. ... Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc. ...

External links

• Strife at MobyGames
• Strife at Home of the Underdogs
• Doom Wiki's Entry for Strife
• Vavoom website
• ZDoom website
• Official thread for SvStrife