SuperTuxKart

SuperTuxKart
The SuperTuxKart menu
Engine	Antarctica
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Genre(s)	Arcade
Mode(s)	singleplayer, multiplayer

SuperTuxKart is a multi-platform racing computer game forked from TuxKart, and updated by the the Game of the Month team.

Changes

• As of 0.4, collision detection is handled by the Bullet physics engine for improved realism and enhanced gameplay.
• Performance improvements
• Significant stronger computer controlled karts (which do not cheat anymore)
• Several grand prix
• Two new collectables (anchor and anvil)
• New characters
• New tracks
• A completely new interface
• Some smaller graphical improvements (animated wheels, etc.)

Bug fixes

• Made more performance in SuperTuxKart rather than slow performance.
• Fixed n/a return to title screen at end of race, added 2 options.
• Fixed bug crossing finish line after overtaking you as final position changes
• Added a "Ready, Set, Go" sequence
• Fixed computer players get confused and stuck on tracks
• Fixed a bug pushing a solid object.
• Fixed players not changing
• Fixed bug to put yourself back onto the track

Upcoming releases

• 0.4.1: This is the next version going to be released. The developers aim to have the following new features to be completed for this release:
  • Completed
    • Add unlocking:
      • Hide certain features till they are unlocked
      • Add a 'challenge' mode which will enable to you unlock features
    • Add 'follow the leader' mode as an unlockable
    • New font with special characters for translations (i.e. not just a plain ASCII font)
    • Getting gettext to work on Windows and Macs
    • support for downloadable sound packages, i.e. music packages, which would indicate in which tracks to play the music
    • Add a special version of music for the last track, which should be a faster version of a track (long term approach would be to have a slow and fast version of each track in STK, but the software should support having only slow versions, and different faster versions)

• • Incomplete
    • Combine several menus into one, e.g.: number of laps, number of karts, difficulty can easily be in one menu
    • Support for internationalization
    • Improve sound handling
    • Getting translations. Work in progress: German and French atm, Dutch might be coming soon
    • Increase the pitch of music which doesn't have a faster music in the last track
    • More graphical track improvements
      • BSOD castle is too steep in some parts of the castle - it might be a manageable track if the middle part of the track is just lowered: less steep going up in the tunnel, which then means the going down in the castle can be less steep
      • Star - and/or gowns bow suffer from invisible tracks, esp. when seeing it from below (for bridges). Partly done: gowns bow has been removed
    • SFX
      • Some engine sounds would be good
      • Add a sound when overtaking another kart(completed)

• 0.4.2
  • Complete
    • none yet :(

• • Incomplete
    • Skidding with new physics
      • Tuning the parameters
        • identify perhaps three or four main friction values: normal road, somewhat slippery road, very slippery road, hazardous (might be ice on the road, and/or perhaps for special collectables which might make other karts skid)(complete)
      • Enable skid marks (already in STK, just need to be updated and enabled), and/or some sand storm (depending on surface?)
      • Get SFX for skidding
      • The AI needs to be improved to handle skidding
    • Improve AI (i.e. make the current 'racer' AI the 'driver' AI, and make a better new 'racer' AI)
    • Improve gadgets
    • Parachutes can be removed by braking hard
      • Zipper should give an instant speed boost (completed)
      • Anvils are considered to be too harsh (there is no way to handle them, you are just a victim), a potential replacement might be: spray some paint on the wind screen, i.e. overlay part of the screen with some paint drops so that you can't see properly?? AI karts might just slow down instead
      • A better replacement for rockets (perhaps a flying ice cone, and if you are hit your kart starts skidding)
    • Use reverse tracks as a first unlockable feature
    • Replace drivelines with a more flexible graph-based data structure
    • Game replay
    • Race against a ghost/pre-recorded race

See also

• TuxKart - The original game that SuperTuxKart was formed from.
• Tux - The Linux mascot.

External links

• Official SuperTuxKart Website
• SuperTuxKart on The Linux Game Tome