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Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL
TuringTest writes "LinuxGames reports this news update at the Soul Ride game site. Soul Ride is a snowboarding game with real character physics, and its engine is now released under GPL and available for download. You may see its beautiful screenshots until it gets /.ed. Note that only the engine is GPL'd, not the artwork and data. Can you imagine a GPL game with the Fellowship of the Ring crossing the Caradhras with these graphics?" I hope this release spawns a Linux-friendly snowboarding simulator -- Soul Ride is limited to Windows (9X, NT, 2000) for now.
Hobbit-feet should easily handle the job!
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Check out these screenshots. Lots of polygons and the FPS is good even on old hardware.
Seriously, sometimes reality is better.
From: Bill Gates
to: DirectX_Devel
ALERT! - VERY IMPORTANT - ALERT!
There has been a GPL game engine released! Consider it your top priority to make our next release of DirectX incompatible with this new viral-licensed package.
Long live Me,
-Bill
Trolling is a art,
Lets hope the engine gets more FPS than the webserver can take hits...
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
I'm sorry, but those screenshots look like ass.
This saying baffles me. "Looking like ass" could be good (J Lo) or bad (Goatse guy).
Sorry, but "look like ass" conveys no information.
Me too. This is exactly the killer app Linux needs to fully make it onto the desktop. Just last week I was telling my grandmother she should install Linux, and I told her about OpenOffice, Mozilla, KDE, etc. But when she asked "is there a snowboarding simulator?" I knew I wouldn't be winning her over to the Linux side.
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Guess I know what the next version of Tux Racer is going to look like..
It uses a 'real physics model', huh?
Yeah every time I go boarding I launch myself 20 feet in the air and do a 720 backflip. And then I launch over a 300 foot vertical drop and hit the ground running without being phased.
Real physics? On one of Mars' moons maybe.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
To whomever takes over development of the engine: Please, please, please, do not fill it with frickin' penguins everywhere.
Can you imagine a GPL game with the Fellowship of the Ring crossing the Caradhras with these graphics?
Yes, I can, and it's awful.
These graphics remind me of an old landscape generator I had back on my 486. It generated a plasma-looking sky and a 3d landscape you used your mouse to fly over.
Big whoop, but I guess it's cool that the engine was released.
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Clearly you're not drinking enough Mountain Dew.
I'm curious: Does the Bill Gates in your world of fiction send one of these memos
In my wee world Bill Gates cheats at cards, steals candy from children and pees on the toilet seat.
Thanks for asking.
Trolling is a art,
Really? Every time I go boarding I barely manage to link two turns before hitting a mogul, launching myself into the air upside-down until I finally find myself planted head-first in the mountain with my Phantom pointing at the sun.
That could just be me, though.
+++ATH0