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Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL

Posted by timothy on from the hurts-less-than-the-real-thing dept.

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.

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  1. memo by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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

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    Trolling is a art,
  2. Slashdotted... by cerebralsugar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets hope the engine gets more FPS than the webserver can take hits...

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    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!
  3. Woohoo by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I hope this release spawns a Linux-friendly snowboarding simulator

    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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    "People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
  4. One small request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To whomever takes over development of the engine: Please, please, please, do not fill it with frickin' penguins everywhere.

  5. Re:fizzy by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly you're not drinking enough Mountain Dew.