Racing games

[swamytk]

Is there any racing games (bike, car,..) available in Ubuntu repository? If it is available in other sources also, fine. Pl. let me know the available games, so that I can switch over to ubuntu completely

[xodeus]

Is there any racing games (bike, car,..) available in Ubuntu repository? If it is available in other sources also, fine. Pl. let me know the available games, so that I can switch over to ubuntu completely
I'm playing trigger every day.
It's a rally racing game that comes with a binary.
Just download, unpack and play.
http://www.positro.net/trigger/

[bdamon]

Is there any racing games (bike, car,..) available in Ubuntu repository? If it is available in other sources also, fine. Pl. let me know the available games, so that I can switch over to ubuntu completely



Although I have not tried it yet Torcs looks good and it is installable through apt.

http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

There is also Racer, but it is not in the repositories. You might be able to install it from source with Checkinstall.

http://www.racer.nl/

[mcduck]

Actualy there is even an linux autoinstaller for Racer.
Get Racer installer here. (http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=13)
It's very nice simulation, but not much of a racing game yet. The latest betas look awesome, though. And there are some really nice cars and tracks also available, so it's very nice game anyway.

If you want racing, get Torcs, and for driving simulation try Racer. Or get both like I did :D

[charlieg]

As well as Trigger (http://www.positro.net/trigger/), VDrift seems to be coming along really nicely:
http://www.vdrift.net

I expect to see VDrift go a bit further than Trigger as a racing game. Trigger felt arcadey, whereas VDrift aims at realistic drift racing with accurate physics more in line with Racer (http://www.racer.nl) (which is only available as a binary). Also worth noting is that VDrift development is more open and seemingly more active than Trigger.

None of the above options is really too complete. The most complete racer is Torcs (http://torcs.sourceforge.net) however I don't expect Torcs to improve massively in the future. Personally I think the future of FOSS racing simulation lies with VDrift.

Any other projects I'm aware of are either incomplete and dead (i.e. no development) or very basic. You can find a bunch of those on happypenguin.org if you want to try absolutely everything.

[swamytk]

Waavvv... thanks for all your's over whelming response for games. I have installed Tuxracer and trigger. amazing.. both are doing well without any overhead in system resource. let me check with other games also... thanks once again