Re: [TuxKart-devel] Thoughts on TuxKart Characters

[Charles G. <ch...@ve...>]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 02:20 -0700, michel vilain wrote:
> 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!)

The new character proposals are all in the wiki.  Geeko and possibly
BSOD are going to be dropped (only 'possibly' BSOD because there's a
very nice BSOD model available, so it would be a shame to waste it).

> 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).

Interesting.  Are you going to grab Blender and have a go? :)

> 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)

Why not just 'Simon' or something simple. ;)

> I sure hope the GotM has some effect on TuxKart. Just
> cleaning up the bugs (falling through the floor would
> be my n1) and updating the karts/tracks would already
> be a great result to me. (Plus things like the ground
> shadows)

It will.  Ingo has done a massive amount of design work and doesn't show
any signs of letting up (the man is a juggernaut!) so TuxKart will have
a very large boost.

> 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.

Yup, that's (roughly) the plan!
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <ch...@ve...>
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