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Try Out Tux Racer This Weekend
Forager writes: "Tux the Penguin is no longer just a logo. He's also a racecar. Sort of. Sunspire Studios has just released the game Tux Racer for the Windows and Linux operating systems (OpenGL required). From their website: "Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the abilty to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds." Great graphics. Slick gameplay. Cool stuff. Getting great reviews, too. Oh, and did I mention it's totally free? Very cool stuff indeed." Quite cool looking. It's in apt so Debian users can just 'apt-get install tuxracer' and check it out. It ain't no Mario Kart 64, but then again, what is? Screenshots are impressive too.
I'm the Debian package maintainer for TuxRacer, getting /.ed by mail asking for potato (Debian 2.2) packages.
And I am currently looking for an adequate potato machine to recompile my package, that does have the apropriate -dev packages installed or where I can have them installed easily. If I can't find one, I'll try to create an chroot() potato environment. So be patient and wait a few more days. Unfortunatly, I can't afford to keep an extra machine running potato.
Of course, you can always recompile from source. Do a s/stable/unstable/ on your deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update and apt-get source tuxracer tuxracer-data Don't we just love Debian?
PS: Potato binaries won't have sound and joystick support, unless you use libsdl* from unstable.
But he's also Super Mario!. Fun for all us fanboys.
These comments and opinions are mine and mine alone, although they shouldn't be.
Gaming industry is just the same as IT. Everyone expects the same company to churn out quality software all the time, mayit be ID Software or someone else. But sometimes some unknown group of people put together a gem and it takes the industry by its balls. There are quite a few of them which has proved that it doesnt always take an established company to churn out something good.
Sometimes individuals or groups of people are enough. For eg. Serious Sam, the new First PErson Shooter from Croteam, a small group of people in Croatia has put out a beautiful engine which could handle vast detailed areas, just like what Doom used to do. I get incredible framerates with 32 bit color on my GTS card. Its rumored that Croteam could very well have put out an engine which would rival the Quake3 engine when it comes to OpenGL.
Same goes for another demo called XIsle, which could be found from the Nvidia downloads page, which should be coming out soon, which again is truly a work of art. Last but not the least, GunMan Chronicles, which started out as a mod for Quake2 and then got ported to be a Half Life mod, is not being released by Valve as a new Game.
Its gonna be a "take no prisoners" battle ahead for 3D Game Engines. And when ID comes out with their new engine for Doom, I could only wait breathlessly because every day of my life, I fall in love with Quake3 Engine.
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i don't think that TuxRacer for windows will have quite the desired effect.
maybe it's just me. What they should do is have a real small linux kernel hidden in the binary and if you beat the game, it loads it into memory. If you lose, well, you get windows.
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