GarageGames News Flurry
September 24th, 2003 by AlkiniRecently there has been a flurry of news items related to GarageGames (GG) and their Torque engine:
- Version 2.1 of Orbz (based on the Torque engine) has been released. This version includes reduced download sizes and better support for lower-end video cards. Demo download: orbz_gg_2_10.sh.bin
- GG have made available a demo of Mutant Storm, a RoboTron style arcade game, which was previously unavailable for Linux. Demo download: MutantStormDemo_1_33.sh.bin (8.8MB)
Update, Thu Sep 25 02:37:48 CDT 2003: OK, it’s way past my bedtime, so I apologize for the confusion; there has been a demo of this for a while now. - GG will be present at this year’s Indie Games Con (IGC) which is taking place Oct. 10-12th in Eugene, Oregon. The IGC is “a fun, informal and informative gathering of independent game developers from around the world.”
- GG has relaunched their GameMechanic (GM) newsletter with a August 2003 Issue. GM is a monthly newsletter “focused towards providing valuable and inciteful articles and information on the issues and concerns that matter to our ever growing independent development community.”
September 24th, 2003 at 11:35 pm
I’ve been playing Mutant Storm in Linux for months…
September 24th, 2003 at 11:57 pm
If you didn’t know about it already, this game is originally by PomPom, and this is their site: http://www.pompom.org.uk/
September 25th, 2003 at 12:15 am
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8385054 [b]Feb 15 2003[/b] mutantstormdemo.sh*
September 25th, 2003 at 8:41 am
Has anyone gotten the copy of Mutantstorm to work for Debian (/ unstable). All I get are corrupted graphics (one machine) and segfaults (both machines).
September 26th, 2003 at 7:05 am
So does mutantstorm use the torque engine? if not, why is it on garagegames?
October 15th, 2003 at 10:18 am
MutantStorm on GG states it needs glibc-2.2 or newer. I downloaded it and the program says it needs 2.3! Hmmm nice waste of an 8mb download on my ISDN. If I’d created this I would have developed it on an older OS to guarantee maximum exposure. At the end of the day if I can’t play the demo I’m not going to buy it am I.