Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:30:32PM +0100, Francesco Orsenigo wrote:As a side note, i'm wondering werether Tux is used too much... Pingus, Tux-Racer, Frozen-Bubbles and many other... It seems that almost 50% of linux
games have something to do with penguins and Tux...
I don't know how much good is this.
Bah! That's an overstatement, for one. :^) 50%? More like 5%! Just go to the Linux Game Tome or LinuxGames.com and search through the titles. Not many have penguins. Besides, Tux (and penguins in general) are cute! Also, has overuse of a particular character ever stopped anyone? (Nintendo -> Mario... Disney Land -> Mickey Mouse... McDonalds -> Ronald McDonald... :^) )
As a software engineer, and not being at all artistic, it's quite difficult
for me (and I'm sure, others) to come up with a cute character that people
will identify with.
The joy of Tux as a character for 'cute' games is that he's widely recognised,
there is a ton of opensource artwork and he comes with a certain 'attitude'
that OpenSourcer's can identify with.
I don't think Tux is over-used - there are maybe a couple of thousand games
listed on HappyPenguin - and less than 20 of them are Tux games...unless you
are counting things like card games with Tux-themed card backs, etc - then
maybe we're up to 30 or so. Still it's only a couple of percent at most.
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