In case you didn’t know, Pingus, the open source Lemmings clone, has with its 0.7 release its first SDL port binary. Meaning, you can play it on windows too now. 🙂 I’m lame, I know 😉
As I were going to sleep, I thought I’d try out those tutorial island levels. After finishing the island I come to realise this is as far as the game is finished right now. =) That doesn’t mean the game has limited gameplay (how can an open source game have limited gameplay anyway? 😉 ). After all,
- there were already 22 nicely polished levels, introducing the several types of pingi (?, lol).
- There is a level editor. Temporarily not included, due to the SDL porting process, I guess.
- There are loads of ‘unofficial‘ levels which you can load manually.
- It took me more time than anticipated, take a look at the clock. 😉
I really love this project and I hope they keep on developing it!
P.S.: they even created a little storyline, very cute 😉
P.P.S: I just read this interesting interview with the Pingus developer. This guy has dipped his toes in all kinds of open source games! 🙂