YORG 0.11, a Micro Machines style racing game

about yorg

In the next article we are going to take a look at Yorg. Is about a free open source racing game developed by Ya2 and that uses Panda3D. We can find it available for Windows, OSX and Gnu / Linux. In this latest version (0.11), and after months of work, we can already see a good number of improvements, mainly aimed at improving the user experience during the game.

Yorg is an acronym for 'Yorg's an Open Racing Game'. As a game, it is very reminiscent of Micro Machines with its top-down perspective. Currently the game offers us eight vehicles and seven tracks with AI players to compete against them, with which we can have a good time.

Yorg 0.11 General Features

race start

  • Yorg is FLOSS , the game code is released under GPLv3. Ya2 art assets are released under CC BY-SA. The source of the project can be found at GitHub.
  • As system requirements, the creators advise us that we will need 2 GB of RAM and 1 GB of HD.
  • The code has been ported entirely to Python 3.
  • Have updated game translations. We will be able to select a good handful of languages ​​available to translate the game. In this list, we will be able to find Spanish.
  • Among the many changes that we will find in this latest version, we can find the support for joypads. This is something that for this type of game becomes almost essential. The support has not only remained in the movements, but also makes it possible to feel feedback effects if we use the appropriate control.

jungle race

  • Yorg is developed using various tools: 3D panda, Blender, Gimp, Python and Bullet.
  • For this version of the game, a lot of work has also been done on the multiplayer section. Local multiplayer has been added, which will allow users to play split screen on the same computer with a total of up to 4 players. The interface of the online section. The developer clarifies that this feature is still experimental, so we can find bugs.
  • Un particle system in the game. This is something that is released in this version and that will allow us to see the smoke from the drifts, flashes, weapons, etc ... Some special effects and also the performance of the game have been improved thanks to the new version of Panda3D that is used .
  • Driving model has been improved, seeking to make easier to control the car than in previous versions.
  • La Artificial Intelligence of the competitors has also received a good deal of work.

game options

  • The creators remind us that we must disable shading and reduce the number of vehicles to play on slower machines.

These are just some of the game features. All of them can be consulted in more detail in the project website.

Download and use Yorg

We will be able to test this entertaining game on Ubuntu. We will not have more than go to the download page by YORG 0.11. Once in it we will have to scroll down to find the download button. We will find two possibilities. For this example I will use the one that can be seen in the following screenshot.

game download page

Once the download is finished, we only have unzip the package. Everything we find there we can unzip into a folder.

game executable file

Then we only have to go to the game files and locate the executable which can be seen in the above screenshot. This file is called "yorg”And we will only have to double click to launch the game.

Game credits

I hope that in future versions they will decide to add more weapons, more vehicles and tracks, with which, thanks to their good development, anyone looking for a racing game can continue to have a good time. If you are interested in support game development, the creators make available to all who want to contribute One page in which they explain how to do it.


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