Tux Racer has a Practice mode in which you can hone your racing skills.
Tux Racer Guide: Menu and Options.
In Practice mode there is no lives counter, so you can play any course as often as you like.
You can also customize the race options for more challenge.
Practice Menu.
The Practice Menu lets you choose a course on which to race, and allows you to customize the race options.
- The name of the currently selected course. You can cycle through the course by clicking the arrow buttons. You can also use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to cycle through the courses.
- The best score achieved on this course. If this area is blank it means you have not tried the course yet.
- A description of the course.
- Options of the race. See Race Options below.
- A preview of the course.
- Back to the Main Menu.
- Start the race.
Note: All user-created or downloaded courses are only available through the Practice Menu.
Race Options.
A number of options can be set for the current race on the Practice Menu.
Lighting Conditions.
Clicking on the Lighting Conditions button will change the time/weather on the course. The options are Sunny, Foggy, and Night.
Wind.
Clicking on the Wind button will toggle wind on or off. Wind gusts across the course and makes things more challenging for Tux when he is in the air.
Snow.
Snow is currently not implemented.
Mirror.
Clicking on the Mirror button will flip the course so the left is right and right is left.
Scoring.
Points can be obtained in two ways, by beating the Par Time for the course, and by collecting herring. Move quickly and grab as many herring as possible to get the highest score. Each herring collected will give you the same number of points as beating the par time by two seconds.
About Giampaolo Rossi.
Tux Racer is an arcade racing game. Our favourite Linux mascot has to slide down snowy hills, collecting as many herrings as possible and finishing the races in a timely manner. Nice graphics, different races (which will be unlocked as you progress) and different (optional) weather conditions guarantee a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of Linux games where Tux plays the role of a hero. Where he is equipped with different types of weapons, sitting in a Kart, fighting the evil empire (located in the northwestern US), solving puzzles or challenging quests (sometimes alone or with helpers), he is always quietly busy entertaining the Linux community. This time he has come alone, no team, no helpers, just him, the snow and the mountains. He takes part in a sporting event and boy, how he does!
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