Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @07:26AM 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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Meh by bogie · 2003-02-12 07:50 · Score: 1, Troll

It's cool that the engine is gpl'd (think we'll ever actually see a really good game using it?), but the screen shots for this particular game don't look that great to me. It looks like something from 1999. The terrain looks decent, but the character is god-awful looking. Really generic and jaggy.

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