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Tux Paint Day 2011 - June 16, 2011
Today is Tux Paint's 9th birthday. Help us celebrate by spreading the word to your friends and family!

TTT updated - April 8, 2011
Our simple tic-tac-toe game, "TTT", now uses Autoconf and supports portrait screen orientation. Thanks to Chris Verges for the update to this little old game!

Tux Paint ported to Maemo 5 Linux, Nokia N900 smartphone - May 10, 2010
Tux Paint has been released for the Nokia N900 Internet mobile device and smartphone. Thanks to Aapo Rantalainen and Alessandro Pasotti.

Tux's Turtle announced - December 1, 2009
Announcing a new project by New Breed Software, for Tux4Kids: Tux's Turtle! (Inspired by Delta Drawing, from over 25 years ago.)

Defendguin 0.0.12 source released - November 5, 2009
A minor bugfix to our shoot-em-up game has been released. (Source-code only, so far!)

Go Go Garbage Truck - September 13, 2009
Go Go Garbage Truck is a new, very simple game for young children, for the Atari 8-bit.

Mad Bomber for Mac OS X - September 9, 2009
Mad Bomber is now available for Mac OS X.

Mad Bomber for Maemo - April 27, 2009
We discovered that our bomb-catching game, 'Mad Bomber', has been ported to the 'OS2008' flavor of the Maemo platform (used by Nokia's Internet tablets). It's been patched to support the full 800x480 screen resolution those devices support.

Fight or Perish alpha - March 15, 2009
Fight or Perish is a Dandy-inspired dungeon crawling action game. It utilizes cellular automata to allow for literally hundreds or thousands of enemies on the map. The current alpha version has rudimentary graphics, no sound, and only one partial map, but supports 1-4 players on the same system, using keyboard and/or joysticks. Contact us if you'd like to supply art and/or sound effects to this project!

Mad Bomber and Teeter Torture for Nintendo Wii - February 21, 2009
Our bomb-catching clone of 'Kaboom!', Mad Bomber, and clone of the never-released prototype shooting game Teeter Torture are now available for the Nintendo Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Vectoroids for Nintendo Wii - February 19, 2009
Our asteroid-shooting game is now also available for the Nintendo Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Defendguin for Nintendo Wii - February 15, 2009
Our shoot-em-up is the first of our games to be ported to the Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Bill Kendrick on 'FLOSS Weekly' - February 7, 2009
Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software, and lead developer of Tux4Kids's Tux Paint project, will be on This Week in Tech's FLOSS Weekly netcast, together with David Bruce, maintainer of Tux4Kid's TuxMath and TuxTyping projects. The episode will be posted on February 21st.

Gem Drop X (new) and Madbomber (update) for PalmOS 5 - November 6, 2008
An updated version of SDL for PalmOS has been released, and project lead Thomas Borris has released a new version of our Mad Bomber game for PalmOS. He also ported our game Gem Drop X to PalmOS, too. Enjoy!

New and Updated BeOS/ZETA/Haiku Releases - September 23, 2008
Two more of our games are now available for BeOS and compatible platforms: Entombed! and TTT (Tic-Tac-Toe). Also, updated versions of Defendguin, Mad Bomber, Circus Linux! and Gem Drop X are available.

Announcing libcrtxy - August 5, 2008
We're creating a library for developing vector-based games in the style of classic arcade games, with the goal of being scalable and user-centric. See the website for more details, screenshots, and an initial source-code download.

Defendguin available for Mac OS X - July 5, 2008
We've received a build of Defendguin thsat should work on Intel Macs. Enjoy!

Tux Paint 0.9.20 available - July 1, 2008
Tux Paint 0.9.20 includes some minor bug fixes, nearly 100 new pieces of art for the Stamps tool, and once again supports older versions of Windows (95/98/ME). See the press release for more.

Circus Linux! for PlayStation2 - June 10, 2008
Circus Linux! has been ported to Sony PlayStation2. (Note: a mod-chip and homebrew tools are required to use it.)

Bill Kendrick interviewed by Punto Informatico - June 6, 2008
Tux Paint's lead developer is interviewed about open source educational software, and Tux4Kids' participation in this year's Google Summer of&nsbp;Code program, and Tux Paint, of course.

Vectoroids for PlayStation 2 - June 4, 2008
We've just been told that Vectoroids is available for the PS2. (Once we know what's required to run it, we'll updated the new PS2 page on our site.)

More MorphOS ports - June 1, 2008
We just discovered that Defendguin, Gem Drop X and Vectoroids had been ported to MorphOS, an operating system for Amiga and Pegasos computers.

Circus Linux! in Linux Journal - May 13, 2008
Circus Linux! was reviewed in the 'Learning...Disguised' article in the June 2008 issue of Linux Journal magazine.

Bill Kendrick interviewed by ComputerWorld - May 2, 2008
Bill Kendrick is interviewed by Computerworld Australia.

Tux Paint receives 5-stars from Softpedia again - April 25, 2008
Tux Paint was once again given a 5-star "Editor's Pick" review from Softpedia.

Vectoroids for UIQ-based phones - April 22, 2008
Our asteroid-shooting game has been ported to handsets running the Symbian/UIQ system.

Tux4Kids to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code - March 17, 2008
The Tux4Kids organization, which includes our Tux Paint project, TuxMath (originally developed by NBS), and TuxTyping, applied to be a mentoring organization in this year's GSoC program, and has been accepted!

Vectoroids available for iStation V43 portable music player - February 27, 2008
Our asteroid-shooting game has been ported to the iStation V43 music player. Here's a photograph. Hopefully more of our games will follow!

Bill Kendrick on 'Jumping Monkeys' - January 28, 2008
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, was interviewed on episode 31 of This Week in Tech's "Jumping Monkeys" netcast.

Mad Bomber for PalmOS (GarnetOS) - January 15, 2008
SDL has been ported to the PalmOS 5 mobile platform, and our game Mad Bomber is now available.

Tux Paint for OLPC XO-1 - December 29, 2007
Development is underway to improve Tux Paint on the One Laptop per Child "XO-1" tablet computer, and the latest version has been built and posted. See the new XO-1 download page at the Tux Paint website.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 released - November 23, 2007
Tux Paint 0.9.18 has been released, and is available for Windows Vista, 2000 and XP, Fedora CORE Linux 2-6 and Fedora Linux 7-9, PowerPC-based Apple Mac OS X, and as source-code. See the press release.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 test builds available - November 12, 2007
A test version of the upcoming Tux Paint 0.9.18 is available for Windows and Fedora CORE Linux 2 thru Fedora Linux 7. Please try it out and let us know how it works for you!

Tux Paint Plugin API talk in San Francisco area - November 1, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, will be talking about the new 'Magic' tool plug-in API coming in version 0.9.18.

Tux Paint 0.9.18rc1 source - October 22, 2007
Release Candidate 1 of the next version of Tux Paint, version 0.9.18, has been released for testing purposes. Currently, only the source-code is available. It can be downloaded from our FTP site. Please report any issues to Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint.

Pop Star alpha available - September 30, 2007
In June 2006 we started a small puzzle game project called 'Pop Star.' We've finally decided to release an alpha version, for people to comment on. (Artists welcome, too!)

Mad Bomber on Virgin America Airlines - August 26, 2007
Mad Bomber was one of first the games included in 'Red', the touchscreen-and-controller-based in-flight entertainment system found in Virgin America Airlines planes.

Entombed! for GP2X and new Source - July 4, 2007
Our little game Entombed! has been build for the GP2X handheld game system. In response to the GP2X's need for 320x240 support, we've also released a new source version that runs at a smaller size. (We hope the GP2X community will port this version, too, for improved performance.)

Tux Paint 0.9.17 now available - July 2, 2007
Tux Paint 0.9.17 has been released, along with an updated graphical configuration tool and an expanded stamp artwork collection. Major improvements include support for SVG-based stamps, and Japanese and Korean text entry. For more, see the press release!

Tux Paint presentation in Davis, California - May 8, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, will be discussing the latest improvements to the program at the Linux Users' Group of Davis, California, June 18th.

Tux Paint in SchoolArts magazine - April 18, 2007
Tux Paint is mentioned in an article on Open Source software in the May/June issue of SchoolArts magazine.

Tux Paint in Macworld Magazine and TUAW - March 19, 2007
Tux Paint is mentioned promimently in the April issue of Macworld Magazine, and reviewed in a post today on The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

Another Tux Paint presentation in San Francisco - February 17, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead author of Tux Paint, will be speaking at the Bay Area Linux Users Group in San Francisco on Tuesday, February 20th.

Defendguin ported to Nintendo DS - February 8, 2007
Defendguin has been ported to the Nintendo DS handheld game system.

Tux Paint 0.9.16 CDROM available - January 2, 2007
The latest version of Tux Paint is now available on CDROM from CafePress for USD $6.99. It includes versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Happy New Year!

Gem Drop X for GP2X and Dreamcast - November 7, 2006
Today we discovered that Gem Drop X has been ported to both the GamePark GP2X handheld video game system and the Sega Dreamcast home video game console.

Vectoroids for Nokia770 - November 4, 2006
We just discovered that Vectoroids has been ported to the Nokia770 internet tablet.

Les Trophees du Libre - November 2, 2006
New Breed Software lead developer Bill Kendrick is on the jury of this year's international free software awards.

Tux Paint 0.9.16 - October 22, 2006
Tux Paint 0.9.16 is now available. See the press release for more!

Teeter Torture for RISCOS - October 14, 2006
Teeter Torture is now available for RISCOS, thanks to Neil White.

TUX Magazine article on games - September 1, 2006
The September 2006 issue of TUX Magazine includes an article by New Breed Software lead developer Bill Kendrick, and his wife Melissa Hardenbrook, covering three popular Open Source Linux games. (The magazine is a PDF download, with free subscription.)

tuxpaint.org - August 22, 2006
Tux Paint's website is now at www.tuxpaint.org. The original version at www.newbreedsoftware.com remains, as a mirror.

New Breed Software RSS Feed - August 21, 2006
Our news udpates are now available as an RSS feed!

Tux Paint presentation in San Francisco - August 21, 2006
Bill Kendrick, lead author of Tux Paint, will be speaking at the San Francisco Linux User Group on Sunday, September 3rd.

Defendguin for Sony PSP handheld - August 3, 2006
Two different releases of Defendguin have been created for Sony's PlayStation Portable.

Mad Bomber for GP2X handheld - August 3, 2006
Mad Bomber has been ported to the GP2X handheld game system.

Softpedia reviews Tux Paint - June 26, 2006
Softpedia gave the latest version of Tux Paint both an "Excellent" Editor's Review and a "5/5: Pick" rating, in their online review.

Tux Paint turns 4 - June 16, 2006
The first alpha version of Tux Paint was released four years ago, today!

Tux Paint reviewed by Connected Photographer - May 15, 2006
Tux Paint received a 4 out of 5 rating in a review by Connected Photographer!

Tux Paint for OS/2 - April 29, 2006
Tux Paint is now available for OS/2.

Teeter Torture for Windows - March 22, 2006
The alpha release of Teeter Torture is now available for Windows.

Teeter Torture for Amiga OS 4 & MorphOS - March 12, 2006
We discovered our beta release of Teeter Torture has been ported to Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. Enjoy!

Vectoroids for PSP & Symbian - February 26, 2006
Vectoroids has also been ported to the Sonly PSP handheld, and we discovered that it was also ported to cellphones running Symbian!

TTT for PSP - February 25, 2006
TTT (Tic-Tac-Toe) has been ported to the Sony PSP (Playstation Portable) handheld game console.

Tux Paint for Nokia 770 - February 5, 2006
Tux Paint is being ported to the Nokia 770 ("Maemo") Linux-based handheld Internet Tablet!

Defendguin 0.0.11 - January 29, 2006
Graphical artifacts have been corrected, persistent high score added, and joystick configurations added to the Options screen.

Tux Paint 0.9.15b available on CDROM - January 13, 2006
You can now purchase a CDROM containing Tux Paint for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, from our CafePress shop!

Tux Paint Artist on Board bumper sticker - January 10, 2006
Steve Groundwater created artwork for a Tux Paint bumper sticker, now available from our CafePress shop!

Tux Paint 2006 Calendar - January 9, 2006
Bill collected his 12 favorite images from the Tux Paint artist gallery, and constructed a 2006 wall calendar, available from our CafePress shop.

Vectoroids for GP2X - January 4, 2006
Vectoroids has been ported to the Gamepark "GP2X" handheld game system!

New Tux Paint merchandise - January 2, 2006
Additional CafePress merchandise (sporting the Tux Paint logo) is now available!

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