Stoked Rider for Linux in 2003
April 10th, 2003 by jvmFrom BongFish comes the Tommy Brunner-branded, cel-shaded downhill snowboarding game StokedRider. Only a tiny bit of information is available now, but the game screenshots, like this free-software-friendly PNG, all clearly list “linux” as one of the target platforms. According to the spartan information page it will require OpenGL. Although gameplay is probably similar to many other downhill snowboarding games, the graphics in this one do, admittedly, look quite sweet.
This new game seems to present a much more serious and stylish take on the previous iteration of StokedRider, which can be downloaded for Windows computers by clicking the flaming alien on this page.
Given the dearth of information, I’ll simply point you to Inside Mac Games and Gamespot which both recycle the screenshots and information available on the main site. This way it actually looks like more news than is actually available.
The arrival of this new cross-platform game raises several questions, many of which will no doubt be answered in the coming months. Will the funky green alien make a comeback in the new game? Will DRI-using video cards be able to play this game, despite a lack of S3TC texture compression? Will the Linux client be released nine months after the Windows client as each individual mouse issue is hashed out and unforseen video codec problems come to light? Is BongFish related in any way to the venerable Dopefish?
We’ll keep you posted on these, and other pressing issues, as more news becomes available. In the meantime, enjoy these screenshots:
Image #1, Image #2, Image #3, and Image #4.
April 10th, 2003 at 1:12 pm
It looks like he’s on sand to me.
April 10th, 2003 at 1:46 pm
Good to see another commercial title being planned for Linux!
(One day, this kind of stuff won’t be news ;^) )
Also, cool to see a celshaded game. :) Puuurty!
-bill!
April 10th, 2003 at 2:17 pm
mac, linux & pc … what kinda operating system is named pc? ;)
April 10th, 2003 at 3:03 pm
Instead of linking to zelda you really should have linked to Jet Set Radio [Future] as it looks a lot like it. Instead of magnetic roller blades its a snowboard though.
April 10th, 2003 at 6:42 pm
I think the little article about this game raises an interesting and very valid point. In one of the last sentences, it mentions, “Will the Linux client be released nine months after the Windows client as each individual mouse issue is hashed out…” This is a good example of why standards, especially initiatives like the LSB and desktop standards, are so important to Linux and its future. That way, mouse issues wouldn’t have to be hashed out, if it worked, it worked, and that would be it.
April 11th, 2003 at 2:48 pm
It’s cool that they intend to put out a Linux version but many companies have intended to put out linux versions of a lot of other games that have never materialized.
April 12th, 2003 at 1:44 pm
the yellow snow!
or is it sand?