Pingus levels

[Nonno Bassotto]

Is there any pingus player out there? I've just finished the tutorial island levels and I was quite surprised to see that this was the end. Then I found lots of levels in the folder /usr/share/games/pingus/levels, and some worldmaps too in /usr/share/games/pingus/worldmaps. Still I don't know how to play them, other than in editing mode, which is quite tedious. Any way to include the levels in the game?
Thank you
Andrea

[skirkpatrick]

I've been trying to figure this out for my daughter. So far, no success.

[charlieg]

There are more levels available. You'll probably have to trawl through the pingus-devel mailing list archives to find them though.

The problem is there's nobody working on Pingus at the moment. It just needs a little kick to update it to the latest clanlib and package some extra levels.

[Nonno Bassotto]

Ok,a decent way to do this is by typing

pingus /usr/share/games/pingus/levels/somefolder/somelevel.xml

where for somefolder I recommend "playable". This can be annoying because you have to play separately each level. So you may try also

pingus --worldmap /usr/share/games/pingus/worldmaps/someworldmap.xml

which lets you play a worldmap. I hope those are really playable. Surely they lack some features like levels names and comments. I've found no way to actually include these levels into the game.
Andrea

[cartisdm]

I'm really curious about this as well. I finished up the tutorial levels in a hurry to get to the actual game then only to find out thats it! Is 0.7.1 the newest version, there's no add-on levels to download?

[kmullinax]

I pieced this bit of information together from a German website, but here's a script that you can save as a file in your Pingus directory.

Open a text editor, paste this information in and save it to your computer. You will need to change the PINGUS_DIR at the top of the file to go to your Pingus levels folder, but the default is probably where it is. Then edit your applications>games menu to have a new item, and make the launcher command be "sh /path to this file".

Then when you launch this file from your Games menu, you will be given a directory listing of all the additional levels in your computer. Click on one to play it, or click "cancel" to start up Pingus normally.

Have fun! :)



#!/bin/sh

PINGUS_DIR=/usr/share/games/pingus/data/levels/playable

cd $PINGUS_DIR
exec >/dev/null 2>&1
f=1
while [ "$f" != "" ]
do
f="$(zenity --title="Last Level: $(cat ~/.pingus.last)" --file-selection)"
[ "$f" != "" ] && echo $(basename $f) > ~/.pingus.last
cd $PINGUS_DIR
if grep -q "<pingus-demo>" $f /dev/null
then
pingus
else
pingus $f
fi
cd $(dirname $f)
done

[happyhamster]

Oooh, you just made my day! Script works great (after deleting the space in "pla yable").

BTW: some of those custom levels are *really* tough!

[xen-uno]

Works nice ... you can also set Pingus's start up rez by adding -g <hor-rez>x<vert-rez> to kmull's script as shown here ...

.
.
if grep -q "<pingus-demo>" $f /dev/null
then
pingus -g 1900x1140
else
pingus $f -g 1900x1140
fi
.
.

... and yes, many of the levels that the script "unhides" are very rough and disfunctional ... and the ones that do work well are too damn hard!!! :)

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