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Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game
- tobyhinloopen 6y agoI bet this game was only built as “See? You can game on Linux” and it just stuck around
- sukilot 6y ago[deleted]
- tomc1985 6y agoMaybe the 1.0 release. But now I see a "Story Mode", locked characters, and lots more game-y stuff
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoI wonder if "Story Mode" is like Diddy Kong Racing with an overworld hub, or more like F-Zero GX's "Just races but with the occasional dialogue/cutscene inbetween."
- drunkpotato 6y agoThere is an overworld you drive around with various races you can enter, some of which are locked off until you've accumulated enough wins.
- santoshalper 6y agoLinux Gaming is the equivalent of Christian Rock.
- gspr 6y agoNo. https://store.steampowered.com/linux https://store.steampowered.com/linux
- Shared404 6y agoCheck out Proton. Linux can run almost any windows game at this point. On the subject of Christian Rock, check out Skillet.
- dependenttypes 6y agoI think you mean wine. Honestly though, a lot of games are now native for linux. There are very few games that I need wine for nowadays (and there is no game that I want but can't play)
- Shared404 6y agoYes, wine underlies proton, but Proton makes it accessible for those who don't have the time/desire to debug games individually. Proton "Just Works(tm)", whereas vanilla Wine takes setup. > Honestly though, a lot of games are now native for linux. There are very few games that I need wine for nowadays (and there is no game that I want but can't play) I have to agree here. Almost every game I play can run natively.
- dependenttypes 6y agoIsn't Proton Steam-only? Plus there are quite a few other wine front-ends (playonlinux and lutris come to mind). Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks")
- Shared404 6y agoI don't remember for sure. It is it's own open source project however. I do use lutris as well, but mostly for emulators. > Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks") To each their own. Almost all of my Window's only games I have in my steam library and I've just been able to click install and play, so I haven't looked in depth at any of the other options yet.
- lmedinas 6y ago
- ISL 6y agoThis seems like a challenge to a developer to make the death-metal of open-source games. If it were written, would it make it into the major distros? :). Are there any titles that would meet that definition written in Scumm?
- Shared404 6y ago> to make the death-metal of open-source games. The original DOOM is open source, I think. Update: Found it! It's here, but it's the engine only: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
- chungy 6y agoUnfortunately they only pushed the non-open source licensed one. It was relicensed as GPLv2 a couple years later. https://github.com/Doom-Utils/historic-ports/tree/linuxdoom https://github.com/Doom-Utils/historic-ports/tree/linuxdoom
- Andrex 6y agoWith Unreal becoming verboten on macOS, and Google working with Valve directly on Steam + Linux for Chrome OS... What does that make Mac Gaming? Insane Clown Posse? Brokencyde?
- agustif 6y agoWould this run on my rPi 4 with 8gb of ram?
- Shared404 6y agoQuite possibly. The android build ran for me on a cheap fire tablet, which has much less than 8gb of RAM iirc.
- monocasa 6y agoI've run it on a Pi2. Pi4 should be fantastic.
- fullstop 6y agoI ran it on a pi4 and it runs okay-ish compared to a desktop PC. You might need to reduce the graphics quality, though.
- missblit 6y agoLinux had a pretty strong amateur game scene back in the day before Steam came along. I spent so much time trying out different games from The Linux Game Tome. SuperTuxKart is one of those games that has been in development for years and years. It was originally forked from TuxKart by passionate people with overly optimistic plans. Looks like it's come a long way now though. Another similar project is https://www.supertux.org/ https://www.supertux.org/. Tux Racer is another notable Tux game, but it's commercial fork meant it felt less collaborative than the others.
- Lammy 6y ago> Tux Racer is another notable Tux game, but it's commercial fork meant it felt less collaborative than the others. Don't forget the arcade version! It was the first (I assume proof-of-concept) arcade machine by RoXoR Games, running on Debian Linux. They got rather famously tied up in legal drama with Konami for their second arcade machine, In The Groove, based on a 2004-era codebase of the FOSS “Dance Dance Revolution” simulator StepMania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Corp._v._Roxor_Games_Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Corp._v._Roxor_Games_In....
- hyakosm 6y agoThe original TuxKart website is still alive: http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/ http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/
- Fnoord 6y agoIcculus.org's Ryan C. Gordon was instrumental for the Icculus community, many (proprietary) ports of software and Loki Software. For some history on Linux gaming, see his Wikipedia entry [1]. There have been fantastic games and emulators (and Wine) for Linux, its only getting better and better. Back in the days I played the original Counter Strike in Wine and it ran more stable than Windows 9x. I remember playing Dune 2 in Dosbox. I played Tetrinet in Gtetrinet. And something simple as Mahjong was part of Gnome and KDE. The problem has always been that particular games didn't work on Linux, and that's now less and less, mainly thanks to Steam and Proton, and the long breath of Wine/Codeweavers itself. The only reason I currently use Windows to game is that in World of Warcraft I use a repeater (so that when I press '1' it spams '1'). I'm unable to get that to work on Linux, it works with AutoHotKey. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon
- 0XAFFE 6y agoAt my current company we play the "soccer" mode after the sprint planing and we have so much fun. Whats really nice that it is cross platform and has very low requirements, so it runs on every computer without a hitch and there is no excuse to ditch the little round.
- mlacks 6y agoIt would be cool to see - like it’s console-karting counterparts - characters from the universe of the hardware. I realize Linus Torvalds isn’t licensable IP, but would love to see him throw bananas out back for Stallman to avoid. I wonder what other “characters” would fit in
- seqizz 6y agoLennart Poettering
- LEARAX 6y agoPerhaps as a counterpart to Nintendo's Wario, complete with maniacal laughing.
- Shared404 6y agoOne in ten times you try to cross the finish line you get [ * ]A stop job is running for ... [ *]A stop job is running for ... [* ]A stop job is running for ... and can't cross the line. Side note: While I joke about this, I respect Poetterings determination and engineering skill, even if I disagree with him.
- chungy 6y agoYou just made me laugh hard. Good job :D
- nitrogen 6y agoWait, it's not just my PC that does that? Why is this error message so vague and self contradictory?
- Shared404 6y agoMy understanding is that it usually occurs whenever a daemon is unable to shut down correctly, so it locks up the entire process of shutting down. The networking daemons were what used to cause it when I had Fedora installed, iirc. I would start looking there. As for why it's so vague and self contradictory, I couldn't say.
- haunter 6y agoAnd there was Tux Racer too from 2000. Dead but stil works fine http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/ http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/
- monadic2 6y agoI probably put hundreds of hours into this game!
- xellisx 6y agoAnyone know if the online multiplayer is up to snuff yet?
- drunkpotato 6y agoThis game is pretty charming and fun. My young kids love it, and it's great to play with them. It works with my xbox 360 usb controller with no setup required.
- lmedinas 6y agoThis brings me good memory from early 2000 where this game was one of the first who had good 3D support back then and it was kinda of a benchmark to test if 3D acceleration was working under Linux. Good old times. Congrats to the developer and thank you for those great moments of fun.
- based2 6y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SuperTuxKart-1.2-Released https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SuperTux...
- aasasd 6y agoWhat baffles me is that there aren't any (widely known) mods to turn STK gameplay into something else, like NFS or Wipeout. I've seen one vid on YouTube about increasing karts' speed, which proves that it's at least possible (rather obviously with an open-source game). Maybe the physics engine doesn't lend itself to that, dunno.
- bArray 6y agoIMO the tough part isn't in finding some game/physics engine (there are many out there), but in getting/creating suitable assets.
- aasasd 6y agoYeah, but there are plenty of additional cars and tracks for STK, and I think it's got some workflow for converting models from Blender (you can certainly convert tracks, which some people used to create maps of real places).
- muterad_murilax 6y agoThe problem I have with this game (other than it being a shameless rip-off of Super Mario Kart) is that all in-game character models look so utterly lifeless.