SuperTux

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SuperTux

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SuperTux 0.4.0 1st level.png
Basic data

developer SuperTux Development Team
Current  version 0.6.2
(May 14, 2020)
operating system Linux , macOS , Windows , BeOS , PSP , Wiz , Pandora , GBA , Android (unofficial)
programming language C ++
category Jump 'n' run
License GNU GPLv3 +
German speaking Yes
supertux.org
The protagonist: SuperTux

SuperTux is a free 2D - Jump 'n' Run - computer game , the other games such as the Nintendo Super Mario series , Sega Sonic series and Manfred Trenz ' Turrican and - visible to the animations and performance patterns - the 1987 originating from the C64 computer game The Great Giana Sisters . The main character of the game is the Linux mascot Tux .

history

In the spring of 2000, Bill Kendrick released SuperTux 0.0.0 . As free software under GPL license, the game is now being maintained by several developers and has been continuously improved since it was first published. Several versions have appeared to date. In 2004 the completely overhauled version 0.1.2 appeared. The project has been located on the BerliOS development servers since 2005 . Finally, on December 17, 2006, the preliminary version SuperTux 0.3.0 was published as the first version of the SuperTux 2 series, with which the game gets a new graphics engine , among other things. The new stable SuperTux 0.4.0 version was only released in December 2015. The engine was completely overhauled again. There are new villains, bonuses and power-ups as well as a lot more game objects. The music was played exclusively by Marek Moeckel.

Technology and game engine

The game uses the free multimedia library Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) for computer graphics and controls . An in -house development by the SuperTux team is used as the physics engine . OpenGL and OpenAL are used for graphics and sound effects . Metadata of the game are saved as so-called S-Expressions (from the Lisp programming language ), the scripts are written in Squirrel . It can be controlled using the keyboard or joystick .

Game description and levels

The aim of the game is to free Penny , Tux's friend , from the castle of the evil Nolok , who kidnapped Penny after a picnic. Even if Tux is helped by numerous power-ups , most opponents can also be eliminated with a simple jump on the head. Version 0.5.1 includes a main world ("story mode") as well as three bonus islands in which the player has to deal with different opponents and bosses with different skills. A level editor integrated into the game allows you to create your own levels and world maps, using your own graphics.

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  1. ^ The SuperTux Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages ​​Page . (accessed on February 19, 2018).
  2. ↑ Bill Kendrick: initial release 0.0.0. In: SuperTux changelog. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Super Tux 0.1.2. In: SuperTux changelog. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The SuperTux project has moved! In: SourceForge. April 30, 2005, accessed August 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Supertux Release 0.3.0. In: SuperTux changelog. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ SuperTux 0.4.0 issued after more than ten years , bitblokes.de of December 21, 2015
  7. ↑ SuperTux News - SuperTux 0.5.1. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .

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