Oh sweet, sweet SDL. How did we ever live without you? The webOS ports are coming thick and fast now, with these last two days bringing us three tasty new gaming treats for the Palm Pre. From Eric Gaudet – creator of the Virtual Keyboard – comes SuperTux, a side-scrolling 2D platformer that bears more than a passing resemblance to Super Mario Bros. It features the epnonymous penguin on a quest to save his girlfriend. You get your choice of accelerometer or keyboard controls, and the gesture area serves as your jump button.
From wIRC co-creator Ryan Hope comes TetriCrisis, an open-source clone of the classic block-dropping puzzler that made millions of nine-year-old boys hurl their Gameboys out their bedroom windows when the Fates flat-out refused to give up the straight block they needed to beat their brother’s high score… but I digress. It uses keyboard controls and makes somewhat of a mockery of EA’s charging $6.99 for the same in the App Catalog. Both of the above can now be found in Preware.
And the big ‘un? It’s after the break, along with a video of SuperTux for the PC.
