Virtual Jay Peak is a simulation of snowboarding at the Jay Peak resort in Vermont. The terrain is based on geological survey data of the mountain and surrounding area, with the addition of signature trails and buildings. The software is based on the extreme backcountry snowboarding game Soul Ride.
Minimum system requirements:
# Pentium II-300MHz or better PC
# 64MB RAM
# An OpenGL 1.1-capable video card
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Developer: Slingshot
I know all the data files are available for free on their web site and that LGP just packaged everything up on a DVD and sold it. LGP did that with a lot of things like Neverwinter Nights, windows version + their created Linux install DVD. Yes the source code of the engine is on Sourceforge so people can pull it down and work on it. It might attract more developers and users if the data sets were dumped into the CVS.
I am sure some people might like it, but not too many people even know it exists. My issue is that it was more of a snowboard simulator and instead I was looking for a game. I would love to see it become something more like SSX Tricky or whatever as a game instead. Racing down a course with AI players and doing tricks for speed boosts. Not very realistic but fun to play.
It is soulride. Thatcher Ulrich originally release virtual Jaypeak for Linux (and others) as an ad for Jaypeak. There is also Breckenridge & Stratton I believe. It was going to be advertising for the resorts and for a special snowboard video game controller that slingshot made. Somewhere along the way Thatcher worked with LGP to release the full Soulride for Linux.The source code is also available under GPL. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/soulride/) I know there was a patch to enable acceleration so you could go back up hills and another that disabled crashing. I was always bummed about how interest never picked up for the game. It was hard to control, but I liked it. And with source code, it could have been augmented.
Also, Thatcher was really nice when I was trying to get the data files for the windows version of Breckenridge & Stratton to work with the Linux version of Jaypeak. I was hoping the Linux release would have been more successful for him.
if you extract the content of the package the binary is called: soulride.
maybe its a different version?
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=16&
Thanks, added
Nice Game!!!
Video (GamePlay):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97I49p7iO74