Welcome to Soul Ride, a GPL physics-based snowboarding simulator, with an advanced terrain engine designed for rendering real-world locations!

Originally released as a proprietary game by Slingshot Game Technology, Inc. the engine source code has since been relicensed under the GPLv2.

Soul Ride is a single-player PC snowboarding game which emphasizes purity, realism and extreme backcountry terrain. The runs are drawn from geological survey data of real-world mountains. The action is based on a meticulous simulation of snowboarding physics. The gameplay is straight out of the old-school arcade. And every move the player makes is recorded on a virtual VCR.

Soul Ride has been ported to a variety of platforms:

• Linux (current primary development platform)
• macOS
• Windows

On Debian-based distributions, install all necessary dependencies with:

sudo make installdeps

Building from source:

make
make DEBUG=1 # for debug build

macOS build support remains preliminary

Homebrew is recommended to install and manage the necessary dependencies on macOS:

brew update
brew install sdl sdl_mixer

Building from source:

make
make DEBUG=1 # for debug build

TBD

Unit tests can be run by:

make test

Further unit test coverage would be appreciated!

readme.txt readme-linux.txt readme-macos.txt

Copyright 2003 Slingshot Game Technology, Inc.

The source code is made available to you under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see COPYING.

The game assets (maps) are not.