[TuxKart-devel] Thoughts on TuxKart Characters

[michel v. <vi...@ya...>]

Hi,

First time contact with the list, so please be gentle
with me....

TuxKart currently uses a mix of character:
Open Source characters (Tux, Geecko)
Made up characters (Gown)
Concepts (BSOD)

As it is a racing simulation,  I would expect to see
'real' characters the player can identify with. As a
nod to Open Source. I would also lire the game to
stick to OpenSource characters. This would give us
both recognisable, distinct characters (a penguin, a
Gnu, a little devil, a Dino,...) and still have a
level of 'geekiness' in there (Linux! GNU! BSD!
Mozilla!)
Of course, one (or more) visibly distinct characters
like the squid (even not having a OSS background)
would be OK for me and thus, by extrapolation, for
everybody ;-).
I don't see how people can identify with BSOD, the
Mac-icon or even an ice-cube so I would propose to
drop the concept/abstract/surreal characters.

As example of a visibly distinct character/kart, I
would propose the Ape-driven trike I uploaded to the
Wiki (done with a mouse in MSPaint, so pretty crappy).
If we use the Gnome foor icon with it (or the
Ximian-logo) we could pass him off as 'Simian' As he
would probably be created in Blender, he might even be
called Suzanne (Blender has a monkey-head 'primitive'
called just that)

I sure hope the GotM has some effect on TuxKart. Just
cleaning up the bugs (falling through the floor would
be my n°1) and updating the karts/tracks would already
be a great result to me. (Plus things like the ground
shadows) 
No need to rewrite the game from the ground up. If the
GotM changes could reinvigorate TuxKart development,
such a next-generation TuxKart (with ODE, character
anim, network play, SDL,...)could then be tackled in a
follow-up project by other parties.

Any thoughts? Feedback?

I'll crawl back under my rock now...

UglyMike





		
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