Tux Vs Clippy - New XBox Game

An anonymous reader writes "Just submitted on the XBox developers list, a new Xbox game (iso) is available. 'The battle for world dominance is raging. And now, you can play the game on your xbox(tm). Choose alliance with either Tux or Clippy, and finish the mother of all disputes right here and right now. This game is free (as in beer), and will run on any xbox that has been modified for use with the GNU/Linux operating system. The game runs on top of xbox-linux from Sourceforge's xbox-linux project.' The game features include: Industry heroes like CLIPPY, TUX, BIL, STV, RMS, LNS; Battle cries, each unique to the in-game characters, ranging from "Developers! Developers! Developers!" to "GNU!"; Anti aliased alpha-transparency graphics; Explosions." I have no idea if they're serious, and it doesn't matter.

Comments

Wow... I'm impressed

[Ted_Green]

Not only have they created an unauthorized X box game. They've done so using Microsoft's mascot.

I wonder how many minutes until the cease and desist letter.

Re:Wow... I'm impressed

[thelexx]

I don't know, seems as though this game would qualify as satire and be protected.

Re:Can't be too hard to make it run on a PC

[dreamfactory]

Would you really want to? I mean, this game is pretty poor if you need to bring it out on the xbox. I mean MS are already annoyed about it being chipped/linux'd. But what do we do? Instead of making ourselves look mature and putting out a decent game, we have to bring out silly games like this that give the whole linux scene some very bad light. Now if the game tuxracer was made to run a decent frame rate on the xbox then great, but this game is just another 'wait until we grow up .. we hate m$... we are leet..'

Stuff like this really shows the immaturity of some of the linux community.

Re:Can't be too hard to make it run on a PC

[BluBrick]

An old joke comes to mind here:

Lone Ranger (pressing his ear to the ground):

Uh-oh! Indians headed this way, lots of Indians. It looks like we're in trouble, Kemosabe!

Kemosabe:

Who's we, white man?

While you have a good point about the merits of this game, your attitude is one the main reasons that corporations such as MS have problems dealing with "The Linux Community". The community is not a single entity with a central steering committee. In other words, we did not release this game.

And besides, do you really think that Linux users are the only ones to release games displaying poor taste or immature humour? What about all the really silly Flash games (or whatever they are) that crapflood mailboxes the world over, like the Frog in a blender game? Do you believe that anyone really thinks that those games are released by "The Windows Community"? If not, then why would anyone think that the Tux Vs Clippy game is release by the Linux community?