One handgun. Eight bots. One room.

The first alpha. A team match in the Arena, a menu, and playing with friends.

• Playing with friends. Pick Host or Join in the menu. You can join a friend on the same network, or one whose address you know. Whoever hosts also plays; whoever joins takes a bot's place. A password is optional. If the connection drops, the reason is on screen.
• Separate server. FlickFrag.Server.exe runs a match with nobody watching it. It is a separate download, not part of the game's zip.
• Menu and settings. A title screen, single player setup, screens for playing with friends, picture, sound, control and game settings, and key bindings. The game speaks English and Turkish.
• The match. Four against four: you and three bots on blue, four bots on red. First to thirty wins. You come back at your own base two and a half seconds after you die. You cannot shoot your own team.
• The handgun. Firing it, its kick, its spread and how it behaves in mid-air were all tuned one at a time.
• The bots. Eight bots and three difficulty levels. They find their way around, take cover and come looking when they lose you.
• Bodies. Everyone in the room has a body you can see. The dead drop to the floor, and when you die the camera goes down with you.
• On screen. The score, who shot whom, the match card, the Tab table, names, hit marks and the direction the damage came from.
• Sound. Gunshots, footsteps, cases, hits and kills come from the direction they happen in. With no sound device the game opens silent instead of stopping.
• Picture. Light and shadow are in. Without a suitable graphics card the game still opens, slow but working.
• The package. No installer, one folder. The zip is 52 MB and 235 MB once unpacked. The game writes nothing outside its own folder; the log, the crash reports and the screenshots go under %LOCALAPPDATA%\FlickFrag.
• When something goes wrong. If a file is missing or no graphics card is found, a window says so in plain words. After an unexpected error the game leaves a single crash file. FlickFrag.exe --report collects everything into one zip.