#datocurioso

¿Sabían que el mítico videojuego Tux Racer, donde la mascota de Linux se desliza por montañas de nieve, nació originalmente como un simple proyecto escolar de universidad?

Un estudiante llamado Jasmin Patry asistía a la Universidad de Waterloo en Canadá. Para cumplir con una entrega de su clase de gráficos por computadora, decidió programar un juego simple en tres dimensiones protagonizado por Tux, el famoso pingüino de Linux. El objetivo del programa original, lanzado bajo licencia libre en febrero del año 2000, consistía simplemente en controlar al personaje cuesta abajo por colinas heladas mientras atrapaba arenques en el menor tiempo posible.

El proyecto escolar fue tan bien recibido por la comunidad del software libre que el estudiante, junto con varios compañeros egresados de la misma universidad, fundó la empresa Sunspire Studios para llevar la idea a un nivel comercial. En 2002 lanzaron una versión de paga con mejores texturas y opciones de juego, la cual llegó a venderse físicamente en discos compactos dentro de tiendas de computación. Aunque la empresa cerró sus puertas en 2003 debido a las bajas ventas del formato físico, la comunidad de usuarios rescató el código libre original de la entrega universitaria para mantenerlo con vida, creando modificaciones famosas que se juegan hasta el día de hoy en todo el mundo.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#Tecnología #SoftwareLibre #TuxRacer #DatosCuriosos #Linux #Videojuegos

Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.

Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer

As an Internet Archive user, I scour the Web and turn up mainly software and computer data for preservation. For some time now, I have been trying to locate all the files that were ever uploaded to insaneheat.com and tuxracer.fubaby.com, two defunct fan sites for the racing games #1nsane and Tux Racer, respectively. If anyone has all the files stored somewhere, I would greatly appreciate it and remember to leave an attribution.

#datahoarder #dataPreservation #InternetArchive #gaming #TuxRacer

Being around FOSS a while sometimes you don't realize how formative certain games are, like I think mentally because I was around when Linux had nowhere near the spread it does now, being the kid who played Tux Racer feels like a very personal, almost private experience. Who played that?

But then you run across people who say, "Oh, OpenArena was a huge part of my youth, I'd play it all the time after school" and it hits you how important these games are, especially with economies being what they are today. Even dropping ten bucks on an older title like Quake 3 might be prohibitive.

FOSS games and especially FOSS spinoffs of games are even more important now with a growing awareness of the monstrous behaviour of game studios and publishers. I'm super into Quake 4 right now, but can I really ask people who didn't buy it on launch in 2005 to throw money at Bethesda today? I can't.

And that makes me sad. It feels like there's a piece of history being lost here, like I don't expect Quake 4 to have some renaissance on the level of Quake 1, but it does feel like the clock is ticking because it was never open-sourced.

A friend joked we could name a FOSS spinoff "OpenStrogg", heh.

#quake1 #quake4 #quake3 #openarena #arenafps #foss #linux #tuxracer

Un FPS open source frenetico e gratuito: Xonotic. Dopo un piccolo bug iniziale col gamepad, risolto su Linux Mint, il gioco ci ha conquistato per velocità e leggerezza. Perfetto anche su Mini PC economici. Leggi l’articolo completo qui: https://incastro.altervista.org/xonotic-lfps-open-source-veloce-e-gratuito/

#linux #opensource #gaming #fps #minipc #linuxleggero #tuxracer #tecnologia

Screenshot mit Pinguin. Jetzt fühle ich mich alt.

#tuxRacer #gaming