Extreme Tux Racer

This is a fork of Extreme Tux Racer with support for Microsoft's Kinect sensor as an input device on the Windows platform. As Tux accelerates down the race track, the user can steer the penguin by tilting his or her head left or right, lean forward to paddle, and lean back to brake. Watch a video of this in action!

Overview

In order to maintain compatibility with Linux and Mac OS X, all of the Kinect processing is done in a standalone C# application. All skeletal information of interest to Extreme Tux Racer is transmitted via a UDP socket. Thanks to this modularized design, Extreme Tux Racer can still be compiled on platforms for which the official Kinect SDK is not available. As another benefit, the original Extreme Tux Racer source didn't have to be adapted so it compiles with Visual Studio.

Usage

To try Extreme Tux Racer's Kinect support, make sure the latest beta of the Kinect for Windows SDK is installed on your machine; then compile KinectDaemon with Visual Studio. Connect your Kinect sensor and run the executable to start processing skeletal information.

Next, compile Extreme Tux Racer on Windows in a MingGW environment via the Makefile provided. Make sure SDL, SDL_image, SDL_net, SDL_mixer, freetype2, libpng, zlib, libintl, and ActiveTcl are installed. When you start the game, a UDP server socket will be created. Once a new race begins, simply tilt left, right, forward, or back to control Tux.

The game runs best when the resolution is cranked all the way up.

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KinectDaemon		KinectDaemon
data		data
doc		doc
Makefile		Makefile
README.markdown		README.markdown
audio.cpp		audio.cpp
audio.h		audio.h
bh.h		bh.h
common.cpp		common.cpp
common.h		common.h
course.cpp		course.cpp
course.h		course.h
course_render.cpp		course_render.cpp
course_render.h		course_render.h
credits.cpp		credits.cpp
credits.h		credits.h
env.cpp		env.cpp
env.h		env.h
etr_types.h		etr_types.h
event.cpp		event.cpp
event.h		event.h
event_select.cpp		event_select.cpp
event_select.h		event_select.h
font.cpp		font.cpp
font.h		font.h
ft_font.cpp		ft_font.cpp
ft_font.h		ft_font.h
game_config.cpp		game_config.cpp
game_config.h		game_config.h
game_ctrl.cpp		game_ctrl.cpp
game_ctrl.h		game_ctrl.h
game_over.cpp		game_over.cpp
game_over.h		game_over.h
game_type_select.cpp		game_type_select.cpp
game_type_select.h		game_type_select.h
gui.cpp		gui.cpp
gui.h		gui.h
help.cpp		help.cpp
help.h		help.h
hud.cpp		hud.cpp
hud.h		hud.h
intro.cpp		intro.cpp
intro.h		intro.h
keyframe.cpp		keyframe.cpp
keyframe.h		keyframe.h
kinect.cpp		kinect.cpp
kinect.h		kinect.h
loading.cpp		loading.cpp
loading.h		loading.h
main.cpp		main.cpp
mathlib.cpp		mathlib.cpp
mathlib.h		mathlib.h
newplayer.cpp		newplayer.cpp
newplayer.h		newplayer.h
ogl.cpp		ogl.cpp
ogl.h		ogl.h
ogl_test.cpp		ogl_test.cpp
ogl_test.h		ogl_test.h
particles.cpp		particles.cpp
particles.h		particles.h
paused.cpp		paused.cpp
paused.h		paused.h
physics.cpp		physics.cpp
physics.h		physics.h
quadtree.cpp		quadtree.cpp
quadtree.h		quadtree.h
race_select.cpp		race_select.cpp
race_select.h		race_select.h
racing.cpp		racing.cpp
racing.h		racing.h
regist.cpp		regist.cpp
regist.h		regist.h
reset.cpp		reset.cpp
reset.h		reset.h
score.cpp		score.cpp
score.h		score.h
splash_screen.cpp		splash_screen.cpp
splash_screen.h		splash_screen.h
spx.cpp		spx.cpp
spx.h		spx.h
textures.cpp		textures.cpp
textures.h		textures.h
tool_char.cpp		tool_char.cpp
tool_char.h		tool_char.h
tool_frame.cpp		tool_frame.cpp
tool_frame.h		tool_frame.h
tools.cpp		tools.cpp
tools.h		tools.h
track_marks.cpp		track_marks.cpp
track_marks.h		track_marks.h
translation.cpp		translation.cpp
translation.h		translation.h
tux.cpp		tux.cpp
tux.h		tux.h
view.cpp		view.cpp
view.h		view.h
winsys.cpp		winsys.cpp
winsys.h		winsys.h

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