Christmas 2021 - Version 0.7.5

The most up to date version of RocketTux, playable on Windows and Linux.

New This Release

• Friends quest system completed
• Item donation on inventory page
• All badguys complete
• Rocketboots badguy now chases Tux
• Nolok does a flyby when opening orange ? blocks
• Rescue Girlies can be called for help when green ! block is active

Missing Functionality

• Cubimal upgrades system
• Help screen
• Some level sections for Snow2, Forest 2, and Beachfront
• Some settings, balance/spawning tweaks, bug fixes

Other than those items, the rest of the game is entirely functional! There are a few bugs, but nothing game breaking.

Windows:

This is a 32bit release, as 64bit isn't required for Windows. I personally build and testing using 64bit, but that's basically because I can rather than for some noticeable benefit.

1. Download rockettux-0.7.5-win7-8-10-32bit.zip
2. Extract the file to its own folder
3. Double click on RocketTux.exe

If you experience random slow downs or other issuing using the above packaged program, you can instead download and use the web server version for Windows. This requires Python 3 to be installed.

1. Download rockettux-0.7.5-win-py-webserver.zip
2. Download and install Python 3 for Windows
3. Extract the file to its own folder
4. Do one of the following

• Double click runserver-windows.py to run the server (if this Python feature is enabled)

OR

• Right click on runserver-windows.py and chose Open in IDLE
• When IDLE is open, press F5 or go Run > Run Module to run the web server

THEN

• Open Google Chrome (NOT SOMETHING ELSE THAT ISN'T TESTED/SUPPORTED) and go to the address 127.0.0.1:8000
• Save the site as a bookmark to avoid typing it again
• Close the web browser and the Python server window when you're finished playing

An icon (favicon.ico) is included should you wish to make a shortcut to RocketTux.exe and set a custom icon in the shortcut's properties.

Linux:

This is a 64bit release, as the 32bit version failed to run on Devuan 3.1 Beowulf due to a missing dependency (libgobject-2.0.so.0). This release should work fine on any recent 64bit Linux distribution, especially those based upon Debian. If you need a 32bit version, download the repository and use the builder script to download and use the 32bit version of NW.js, then fix whatever library is missing on your system to make NW.js 0.58.0 run correctly or use the web server version by running runserver.py.

1. Download rockettux-0.7.5-linux-64bit.tar.gz
2. Extract the file to its own directory
3. On the terminal launch the game using ./RocketTux

An icon (icon-128.png) is provided for use in your menu system of choice.

Version 0.6.6 - 2021.11.29

The most up to date version of RocketTux, playable on Windows and Linux.

Note: The files included with this release are labeled 0.6.5, but they are indeed at the same Git-commit-level as the 0.6.6 GitHub tag.

Missing Functionality

• Donation of inventory items
• Friend quest system
• Cubimal upgrades system
• Help screen
• Green ! blocks don't do anything
• Orange ? blocks don't cause Nolok to fly by...

Other than those items, the rest of the game is entirely functional! For instance, you can now sell items from your inventory to earn extra coins.

Windows:

This is a 32bit release, as 64bit isn't required for Windows. I personally build and testing using 64bit, but that's basically because I can rather than for some noticeable benefit.

1. Download rockettux-0.6.5-win7-8-10-32bit.zip
2. Extract the file to its own folder
3. Double click on RocketTux.exe

If you experience random slow downs or other issuing using the above packaged program, you can instead download and use the web server version for Windows. This requires Python 3 to be installed.

1. Download rockettux-0.6.5-win-py-webserver.zip
2. Download and install Python 3 for Windows
3. Extract the file to its own folder
4. Do one of the following

• Double click runserver-windows.py to run the server (if this Python feature is enabled)

OR

• Right click on runserver-windows.py and chose Open in IDLE
• When IDLE is open, press F5 or go Run > Run Module to run the web server

THEN

• Open Google Chrome (NOT SOMETHING ELSE THAT ISN'T TESTED/SUPPORTED) and go to the address 127.0.0.1:8000
• Save the site as a bookmark to avoid typing it again
• Close the web browser and the Python server window when you're finished playing

An icon (favicon.ico) is included should you wish to make a shortcut to RocketTux.exe and set a custom icon in the shortcut's properties.

Linux:

This is a 64bit release, as the 32bit version failed to run on Devuan 3.1 Beowulf due to a missing dependency (libgobject-2.0.so.0). This release should work fine on any recent 64bit Linux distribution, especially those based upon Debian. If you need a 32bit version, download the repository and use the builder script to download and use the 32bit version of NW.js, then fix whatever library is missing on your system to make NW.js 0.58.0 run correctly.

1. Download rockettux-0.6.5-linux-64bit.tar.gz
2. Extract the file to its own directory
3. On the terminal launch the game using ./RocketTux

An icon (icon-128.png) is provided for use in your menu system of choice.

Christmas 2018 - Version 0.4.3

The most up to date version of RocketTux, playable on Windows and Linux. The attached files are 32bit, but they will run on 64bit operating systems.

Windows:

1. Download rockettux-0.4.3-win7-8-10-32bit.zip
2. Extract the file
3. Double click on RocketTux.exe

Linux:

1. Download rockettux-0.4.3-linux-x86.zip
2. Extract the file
3. On the terminal launch the game using ./rockettux