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Linux/Mesa 3D Game Beta

Posted by Hemos on from the c'mon-and-get-it dept.

Steve Baker writes "Tux-the-Penguin - A Quest for Herring. A full 3D game for Linux/OpenGL (Mesa). Released with full source code under GPL. This is a first public beta and the start of a web-based project to bring this to completion. What's available now is a couple of playable levels. You *WILL* need a 3D accelerator that Linux can support under OpenGL (that pretty much means a Voodoo-1 or 2 or a RUSH).

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  1. Wow, this is a great game! by Fizgig · · Score: 4

    I just downloaded it and got it to compile (I had to comment out a line calling XMesaSetFXmode to fullscreen to get it to compile, but it did eventually, and this is an amazing game! It's not really much of a game yet. You just walk around and eat fish, but Tux can jump and dive and burp like he never could before! Don't try it on software Mesa, though. It's SLOW. I was getting about 5 seconds per frame. But I did get it to work with the in-development G200 driver, and it was more than playable (except that there's not much of a point to the game yet). It's far from finished, from the looks of it, but the graphics engine is very impressive. I can see the game ending up with great appeal for kids.