Tux Football
Tux Football is a great 2D football game for Windows and Linux! Bringing old style gameplay back to the desktop with up to date graphics! For those people who remember and miss old classics such as Amco's Kick Off and Sensible Software's Sensible Soccer.
Game play is designed to be quick, responsive and fun. You are always in control of the player closest to the ball. The ball is controled via two kick buttons - one for pass, and one for shoot. Aftertouch can be applied to shots by quickly pressing and holding the direction you want the ball to bend towards. Pushing in the opposite direction to what you kicked the ball makes it raise into the air, pushing in the same direction as the ball makes it dip towards the ground.
Screenshots
Call for artists, animators, playtesters and developers!
The name of the game is Tux Football and there was a reason for that - I want to have teams including a wide range of characters including Tux the Penguin, the Free BSD daemon, the GNU, etc. As of yet though, I haven't had a chance to design or search for models of these characters.
So if there are any artists out there who want to work on models, interface graphics, or anyone else who wants to work on an area of the game such as sound, coding or simply sharing ideas of what should be in your perfect football game then contact me.
Current Status
What is done :
- Two Teams
- Pass, Kick, Tackles, Headers
- Aftertouch
- Bounds detection (i.e. we know when throw ins, goals, etc. happens)
- Realistic physics on the ball, including bouncing off goal posts.
- Title Screen, With menu.
- Sound Support, including sfx and music
- Computer controlled players
- Redefining keys, selecting number of players
Still to be done :
- More Teams
- More graphics and moves, such as throwin graphics, rolling around on the floor in agony, etc.
- Talking about agony, injuries and player-player collision detection need to be added
- Along with yellow cards and red cards
- And substituions
- Joystick support
- Music and SFX need to be improved.
- Networked play
- Leagues, player stats, transfer market
Controls
Direction Keys : Move player around
Left Shift : Shoot (heavy kick in the air)
Left Ctrl : Pass (softer kick along the ground, directed to feet of the closest
player on your team
in the direction you passed in)
Mailing list
There is now a mailing list, primarily for development but also for user ideas, support, success stories of running on various platforms etc. If it ever becomes high volume, I'll seperate some of those topics into seperate mailing lists ;-). You can subscribe here : http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxfootball-devel
Installation
To install, unzip tuxfootball.zip into it's own directory. There, that was simple wasn't it? tuxfootball.zip contains both the windows executable and the linux executable. Note - linux users need to install an up-to-date version of SDL, SDL_image and SDL_mixer as well - the dll's for the windows version are provided.
To run, on windows change folders to where you unziped tux football and
double-click on tuxfootball.exe. On Linux, change directory to where you
unzipped tuxfootball and type ./tuxfootball
19/11/2004 - The rebirth of Tux Football
I (Tenk) will continue the good work of Jason, english is not my primary language, please apologies me for the futur :).
19/06/2003 - First pass refactoring done
It took me a little longer than I had hoped, but the refactoring of the states is now complete. Ok, the ingame submodes need to be sorted out but other than that it's all good. I shall be committing in the next day or two.
I have also integrated some changes made by Shard, who is currently helping compile Tuxfootball on BeOS. Cool stuff!
25/05/2003 - Development cranks up again
Well, it's been a while since I did any real development on Tux football, but since I keep recieving the odd encouraging mail, I believe it's time to make a start :-) First thing I did was look at the code and scream - there are some pretty hideous bits of design in there, especially to do with the state logic in gameengine.cpp, so I have spent the day performing, hmmm, how shall we put it, a little bit of refactoring.
And since a number of people are helping out, I have added a mailing list to track the development of tux football. You can subscribe here : http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxfootball-devel
18/04/2003 - Moved to sourceforge
It's been quite a while since this site has been updated for various reasons. Tuxfootball is still in development, and to make it easier for me and for other people, I have now moved development over to sourceforge. Rejoice! All of the sourcecode is now in cvs, I still have to package up the sound and graphics and put them into the downloads area.
14/10/2002 - Tux Football get's a webpage!
Yes, I thought it was about time I moved Tux Football onto it's own webpage.