Pingus
Description
Pingus is an open source, cross-platform, and free Lemmings clone. The gameplay is the same: the player must help a group of creatures (in this case, penguins) to reach the exit and escape the level.
Each penguin has to be assigned a task, represented by a series of icons at the left side of the screen. Blockers stop the other penguins, and are best deployed near dangerous environments and chasms. Jumpers spring upwards, arcing through the air, covering a small distance. Bridgers build diagonal bridges across chasms. Bombers explode, removing a chunk of the terrain with them. Diggers go downwards, mining deep in the ground, or sideways, tunnelling through walls. Sliders lunge forward, passing under low roofs and escaping some traps. Climbers have the reusable ability to scale vertical walls, and floaters have the reusable ability to survive any fall.
As in the original, each level has a set number of penguins that have to cross the portal (sometimes with a time limit). Three icons at the bottom pause the game, make it run faster, or explode all the birds (useful if the level was made unsolvable by wrong actions).
The game has a built-in level editor, that can be accessed directly from the main menu. Extra unofficial levels can be found in several sites.
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lots of gfx |
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level design |
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project maintainer |
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programming |
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maintainer of the Windows version for Pingus 0.4.0 | |
most of the pingus (floater, walker, ...) |
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some gfx (rock tile, weed, traps) |
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some pingu gfx(digger, tumbler, bridger2) | |
traps | |
lots of great levels | |
first pingus Mailing List | |
RPM version maintainer | |
Sound code, input code, include cleanup, lots and lots of code cleanup | |
A little Banner | |
another Banner for the pingus homepage | |
Programming (misc) | |
Programming (Blocker) | |
music (data/music/gd-*.{it,s3m}) | |
music (data/music/pingus-*.it) | |
RPM Packages | |
miner, stopper |
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shotgun, bazooker | |
Some fonts | |
[ full credits ] |
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Game added by Macs Black.
Additional contributors: S Olafsson.
Game added October 26, 2008. Last modified February 9, 2024.