Topic: YoFrankie is a cross platform eye popping 3D Adventure and Exploration Game!

[Software Santa]

YoFrankie is a cross platform eye popping 3D Adventure and Exploration Game! Requires the BLENDER Game Play engine "blenderplayer" to play this! Does NOT work on Mac OS 10.9 and Beyond!!!!

This Reminds Santa of Adventure games (like "Myst" and "Riven" from Cyan©) where you may roam around in a 3D world at will and must THINK Your way out of each level. Fiendishly Fun!

If you want to play this 3D Game the first thing you do is Go Get Blender  ( http://softwaresanta.com/sssmf/index.php?topic=378.0 ) and install it. In the Blender folder is a program called "blenderplayer" that Plays the Yo Frankie Stub file for you.

What Software Santa does is to DRAG-AND-DROP the "yo_frankie_stub.blend" file, from wherever you downloaded it, ONTO the icon of the "blenderplayer" app, wherever IT is: and the game starts!

http://www.yofrankie.org/download/

After Orange and Peach, Blender Institute continued with a new open project: Apricot. This time it wasn't a movie but a 3D game! Starting February 1st 2008, a small team of again the best 3D artist and developers worked on a game jointly with the on-line community.

In the game, players assume the role of Frank, the sugar glider who was the antagonist of the film Big Buck Bunny (Peach Open Movie Project), or Momo, a monkey created especially for Yo Frankie!.

The original project goal was to work on a cross platform game (at least Linux, Windows, OS X), using Blender for modeling and animation, Crystal Space as 3D engine and delivery platform, and Python for some magic scripting to glue things together. The purpose was to not only make a compelling 3D game experience, but especially to improve and validate the open source 3D game creation pipeline, with industry-standard conditions.

this is the first version of YoFrankie since being an open project at the blender institute.

Version 1.1 brings YoFrankie up to date with Blender, taking advantage of new features. There have also been improvements in the game logic and levels.

    * Includes the 3 winning levels from the level design competition, with additional improvements.
    * Updated Game Logic for Blender3D 2.49a
    * Runs faster, from testing level 1 home: 2.48a averages 50fps, 2.49a 80fps*
    * Cleaned up blend files, materials, textures, animations, unfinished levels.
    * Loading screen between levels.

yofrankie_1_1b_bge.zip (120mb) - download.blender.org, NL mirror

Linux 32, 64bit, Windows 32bit (MacOS binary not included but is compatible with 2.49a)

full svn log of changes since 1.0

Of course contributions are still welcome and I intend to keep YoFrankie running with the latest blender, adding levels and content from the community.

* Tested with release builds on 32bit Linux, AMD3800, NVidia 8800.

http://www.yofrankie.org/download/