Pingus

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Pingus
Original author(s)Ingo Ruhnke
Developer(s)Pingus community
Initial release1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Stable release
v0.7.6 / 24 December 2011; 13 years ago (2011-12-24)
Repository
Puzzle
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitepingus.seul.org Edit this on Wikidata
Some penguins marching in the snow

Pingus is a

free software game programmed by German developer Ingo Ruhnke. It is a clone of Lemmings in which the characters are penguins instead of lemmings
.

Gameplay

Pingus has 77

GUI
, some with entirely different graphics.

Development

Work on the game began in

OS X. On September 23, 2007 version 0.7.1 was released with a new level editor. On October 31, 2007, version 0.7.2 was released with a set of Halloween-themed levels. There is a Windows 0.7.6 and an Intel OS X binary of 0.7.2 available from the Pingus website. There is a PPC OS X binary of version 0.7.0, while version 0.7.3 contains minor bug fixes that allow the game to work better with the GNU Compiler Collection.[4] The latest version, 0.7.6, adds additional Christmas
and Halloween-themed level sets.

In July 2008, the game was

relicensed from the GPL-2.0-or-later to the GPL-3.0-or-later.[5]

Reception

This game was the first "Game of the Month" by

About.com called it a great game, while acknowledging its debt to Lemmings.[11] In a 2017 review for Windows Central, George Ponder wrote: "The graphics are good, the gameplay is challenging, and overall, Pingus has the potential of being a fun way to pass the time. It just needs a little fine-tuning here and there to make the gaming experience more fluid."[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "FreshPorts -- games/pingus: Free Lemmings-like game". www.freshports.org. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Haiku Depot Server". depot.haiku-os.org. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Pingus - Home". pingus.seul.org. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Pingus - news". pingus.seul.org.
  5. ^ license update
  6. ^ Rob Williams (19 September 2006). "Top 10 Free Linux Games". techgage.com. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  7. PC-Welt
    .
  8. CNN.com. Archived from the original
    on 6 December 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2008.
  9. ^ Thinkdigit Magazine 2009-05
  10. Linux For You
    (September 2009)
  11. About.com. Archived from the original
    on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2008.
  12. ^ Ponder, George (1 May 2017). "Pingus, a Lemmings clone for Windows 10 PC game full of penguin hijinks". Windows Central. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
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