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Elvin · Jan 19, 2002, 10:34 PM

http://www.informatik.uni-jena.de/~zwoelf11/egoboo/ http://egoboo.sourceforge.net/

It's a Rogue game ported from Linux, with some really cool OpenGL graphics. The controls take a while to get used to them, and I wish it had an auto-panning camera, but other than that, I think it has a lot of potential. Glad to see other games (like Tux Racer too) getting ported to the Mac.

seanyepez · Jan 19, 2002, 10:44 PM

Interesting. However, it requires a lot of optimization. Graphics are still a little bit slow on my 667-megahertz TiBook.

Elvin · Jan 19, 2002, 11:45 PM

Slow? On a 450MHz G4, I was getting an average of about 120FPS. Just out of curiosity, what were you getting?

Yeah, the game has a long way to go, but it's well done for it's genera.

Jansar · Jan 19, 2002, 11:56 PM

Games ported from Linux are always fun to play. Tux Racer really set them on a good note.

Elvin · Jan 20, 2002, 02:11 PM

Well I hope it's the beginning of a trend where we'll see writers develop one set of base code, and then executables for which-ever OS they want it to run under. That way, hopefully more coders will be able to contribute to the code of their favorite OS.

Guy Incognito · Jan 20, 2002, 06:59 PM

Cool game. Yeah, I hope lots of those OpenGL linux games get ported even if it's somewhat of a hassle downloading the data from one place, the executable from another, and the dev kit from yet another.

[ 01-20-2002: Message edited by: Guy Incognito ]

Jansar · Jan 20, 2002, 07:21 PM

All they have to do is to fix that little camera angle bugand they'll be all set. By the way, is there any way to make this game playable from any view other than the bird's eye view?