Comments on: Hook Recommends MindRover

By: Judecca

Judecca — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m in the process of reviewing it for linux.com, look for that somewhere in the first week of august.

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Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had the privilege of beta testing this game (the Linux port), and I lost a lot of productivity to it. My only gripe is that it requires a 3D accelerator (OpenGL), even though the game concept is fundamentally 2D. It doesn’t push the graphics nearly as hard as most 3D games, though, so it should run just fine on older hardware.

It’s hackable too — the GUI robot editor generates script code that gets compiled for a virtual machine. If you prefer, you can build your robots in the scripting language directly. It’s very slick.

I really hope CogniToy gets some more recognition for this game, and I hope they don’t stop with MindRover. Some very talented folks.

-John

By: bakiller

bakiller — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder what the sales are like on mindrover compared to the windows version because this game more so than any other I can think of out now seems like it was made FOR the linux crowd.

By: crazney

crazney — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i found it impossilbe! playing the demo.. well, i suck at it even after the tutes,.. im going to buy it to see if i can get any better ..but its hard :(

By: chunky

chunky — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I highly recommend it.

Gary (-;

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Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the next game I buy will be this one! I love the demo! this is not like anything I have ever played befor[b][br]-byte-[/b]

By: pphaneuf

pphaneuf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A classic game I remember from my Apple ][ times is Omega, a game where you build a tank, scripted it and put it at war with other such tanks. Check http://www.feverish.demon.co.uk/omega/…

Just to show that creating a truly, really original game is AWFULLY hard, but that doesn’t remove anything from Mind Rover, it is such a good concept and there are some that are much more over-exploited than this one (think first-person shooters or realtime strategy).

I think there is also a game on the PlayStation called Armored Core which may have somewhat similar ideas.

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Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unless I’m really missing something, this little tidbit fails to mention that Loki has a demo of the game available as well. I tried the demo.. it’s a game way beyond my pathetic abilities in programming and logic, etc. But, maybe I should give it more of a try.

By: Dweebs

Dweebs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Best new game (non first person shooter) I have played in years!! And its for Linux no less. Support the Linux movement people and BUY LINUX GAMES! That is all.

–Dweebs

By: theoddone33

theoddone33 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000