Tux the penguin, the FreeBSD daemon, the OpenBSD pufferfish, MS Clippy, GIMP’s Wilber, the Rust crab, the GNU Gnu, the SuSE chameleon, a Firefox, the Darwin OS duck, and a dude in a red Fedora.

My brain instantly remembered MUGEN…

Character ideas: The KDE Konqi, Katie and the whole host of dragons (Yoshi style). Xenia the Fox alternate Linux mascot. Lemmy and Mastodon mascots.

Provisional name idea: Smashtest (like Minetest until they figured out to call themselves Luanti).

Other name ideas: Open Source Battle Royale

Stage ideas:

• Smart Home (Home Assistant themed),
• GRUB (a few traversable lines or options)
• GRUB rescue (one line, Final Destination style)
• Rapid Coding (a DK falls-style scrolling map)
• vim (a close quarters map similar to the Game & Watch map, optionally with walls as the characters are “stuck in vim”)
• i3 (a pre-made map styled in a tiling window way, or perhaps dynamically splits the stage during battle)
• compiz (do whatever you want as long as it looks cool, wobbly, wavy, cubey or 3d-like)
• Hannah Montana Linux or Biebian (without a picture of the person in question but the colour scheme and the shape of stage elements would highly imply it’s those distributions)
• Blender 3D interface
• FreeCAD animated assembly

Special Move ideas (that can work with most characters):

• Update (a small rest/vulnerable period followed by a buff)
• Mailing List (a beam of emails)
• Harden/Vulnerability Patch (could paint/plaster offensive move, or it could be a curl up defensive move or roll around like yoshi/sonic/jigglypuff etc.
• Release Candidate (powerful offensive move with some drawback or self damage)

Other attacks:

• cronjob (Tux tosses a clock that explodes)
• Tail whips
• Fire breath

Obstacles, enemies, hazards:

• a bug
• a kernel panic/freeze
• the meditation guru
• firejail
• a green-coloured GPU driver
• git issues
• dependencies/dependency hell
• Blender default cube

Your game doesn’t have to have every single element FOSS-themed, as it might make it feel too nerdy, but if you were short on this kind of idea and wanted some, here you go.

Can you include Bob from Reboot?

You could start out with custom models in rivals of aether. Just a suggestion.

How about TuxWars ?

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Tux can/should be in there, but make your character cast from a wide variety of public domain sources. Use real historical figures, classic literature, and mythology.

Some specific ideas:

• Thor (but not too much like the Marvel interpretation)
• Poseidon
• Dracula
• Sherlock Holmes
• Captain Blackbeard
• Steamboat Willie (as of its copyright expiring)
• T-Rex
• Cthulu
• Merlin the wizard
• fairytale characters

Also make a solid modding API to let people add their own characters, items, and stages.

I would learn the process of distributing software on flathub

Please have decent mod support so that we can import/create our own characters and movesets and use them in battles against other players online.

Please allow custom maps and items as well.

As far as move sets go, you could always base them on things about the animal for animal based mascots. Like an ice slide for Tux, a charge for the GNU mascot, a long distance tongue grab for the KDE mascot, etc.

Also, as far as characters go, you could always include any public domain characters, like Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, Steamboat Willie, Winnie the Pooh, etc.

One of the carriers from Endless Sky as a calldown

Clippy as a hidden character.

I like the idea of your game! What other characters would there be?

Penguins like to slide into water so maybe Tux has a belly slide move.

The characters could start out as just the ones in supertuxkart and then go from there. I’d be happy to help with the movesets, balancing, and playtesting. I don’t have any experience with Godot yet but I have been meaning to learn!