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Tux Racer
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Tux Racer is a racing and arcade video game released for PC, macOS, and Linux. The software version identifier is 0.61.
The game was released on February 28, 2000. Additional publication dates include October 2, 2000, and January 16, 2002.
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Game details · IGDB
Tux Racer is a 2000 open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. It was originally developed by Jasmin Patry as a computer graphics project in a Canadian university.
- Released
- 2000
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Key facts
- Developer
- Sunspire Studios
- Publisher
- Sunspire Studios
- Director
- Jasmin Patry
- Composers
- George Sanger , Joseph Toscano
- Platforms
- Linux , Windows , Mac , Arcade
- Release
- Linux: , WW : February 28, 2000 Windows: , WW : October 2, 2000 Macintosh: , WW : November 21, 2000
- Genre
- Racing
- Mode
- Single-player
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Game engine
- OpenGL
- Distribution format
- compact disc
- Official website
- tuxracer.sourceforge.net
- Image
- TuxRacerScreenshot.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- characters
- Tux
- Commons category
- Tux Racer
- programmed in
- Tcl
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- publication date
- 2002-01-16
- software version identifier
- 0.60.2
- operating system
- Microsoft Windows
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Encyclopedic overview
Tux Racer is a 2000 open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. It was originally developed by Jasmin Patry as a computer graphics project at the University of Waterloo. Later on, Patry and the newly founded Sunspire Studios, composed of several former students of the university, expanded it. In the game, the player controls Tux as he slides down a course of snow and ice collecting herrings.
Tux Racer was officially downloaded over one million times as of October 2001. It also was well received, often being acclaimed for the graphics, fast-paced gameplay, and replayability, and was a fan favorite among Linux users and the free software community. The game's popularity secured the development of a proprietized release that included enhanced graphics and multiplayer, and it also became the first GPL-licensed game to receive an arcade adaptation. It is the only product that Sunspire Studios developed and released, after which the company liquidated.
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