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Welcome to the Bitfighter wiki pages. Bitfighter is a community project, so please help build these pages out where you can.

Bitfighter is a multi-player team-based space combat game. It's fast, fun, and frenetic. There are many game modes and unique maps. Players can (and do) create maps by using the built-in map editor. It's space exploration for warfare, construction, and beyond!

Bitfighter is designed for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and has an active development team.

Playing

• What Is Bitfighter?
• Game types
• Ship configuration (weapons & modules)
• Scoring
• Hosting a game
• How team locking works (not in 019 -- will be included with 020)
• Playing tips
• How to be a good teammate
• INI File
• Command line parameters
• Bitfighter:Current events - This is where games are scheduled. Also check the "Announcements" subforum of the Bitfighter forums for more announcements about events!

Creating Levels

• Level file syntax
• Creating hostile objects

Below are some community-created guides to level design:

• Level Design Fundamentals
• Three Keys of Level Design
• The Levelmaker's Guide to the Galaxy

Levelgen Scripts

• Karamazovapy's levelgen tutorial
• Using a levelgen script
• Programming levelgens
• Levelgen gallery

Managing Servers

• Hosting multiple servers on Linux
• Hosting a Dedicated Server in OS X
• Hosting a dedicated server on Windows
• Updating a Linux server to the latest code

Robots

• Using robots
• Programming robots
• Robot gallery
• Adding robots while in-game

Editor

• Creating plugins
• Add the Bitfighter logo in your levels
• Change the delay time for teleporters
• Make a SpeedZone rotate

Adding robots to a level

Lua Bitfighter Programming Utilities

• Lists

Bitfighter Projects and Social Media

• Pleiades Online Level Database!
• Game Reports
• Player Statistics, curated by kaen
• Bitbuntu Spectator Feed, developed by Fordcars
• PlayBitfighter Twitter Feed, maintained by sky_lark and community
• PlayBitfighter Facebook Page, maintained by sky_lark and community
• PlayBitfighter Steam Group, maintained by Little Apple and community

Development

Want to get involved? Then we want you! See the "Get Involved!" section (above) to see what we need done, and the "Contact" section to get in touch with the devs.

• History of Bitfighter
• Development roadmap
• Getting the source code
• Building Bitfighter
• Contribute using Mercurial
• Contributors/Credits
• Release checklist
• Ideas for triggers
• Ideas for Achievements
• Bitfighter Wikipedia Submission
• GSOC ideas
• Online reviews and links

Wiki notes

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list