SuperTux, a name I've not heard in quite some time, a free and open source platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros is still chugging along and it's heading towards a new release.
It's currently on the third alpha release of their 0.6.0 update which sounds like it's quite an evolution for the game. Here's the highlights of what's new:
- Complete revamp of the rendering engine, the game should be much faster than it was previously
- It now support OpenGL 3.3 Core as well as OpenGL ES 2.0, thus allowing SuperTux to be run on the Raspberry Pi, and potentially WebGL.
- A few graphics have been updated, and effects have been added including various effects and shaders
- Support for right-to-left languages through vector fonts. This will also fix a few non-ASCII characters, which often caused problems before in translations
- Forest worldmap redesigned with new levels and other redesigned levels
- A lot of other under-the-hood changes and bugfixes
- Official Linux binaries
While we have a lot of indie games and some AAA games now, it's always nice to see games like this continue along. After trying out Alpha 3 with the AppImage, it worked really quite nicely. Could be a rather nice game for a younger audience. It's free after all, why not give it a go.
You can download it from their GitHub page, under the GPL license.
Hat tip to AngryPenguin.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Avehicle7887 Nov 21, 2018
I remember this game way back when Ubuntu was becoming a bit popular on the desktop, great times. I'm surprised (but happy) it's still being worked on all these years.
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Motionshot Nov 22, 2018
Quoting: MayeulCRunning it on the raspberry pi would be really fitting. It's nice to see it is still being cared for! Although I didn't know it was still in alpha after all this time. This is really release-quality software, as far as I am concerned.
What are you talking about? SuperTux 0.5.1 was the latest stable release, released back in 2016. So it's not "alpha after all this time". This new alpha version 0.6.0 was only released 6 days ago.
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Quoting: MotionshotQuoting: MayeulCRunning it on the raspberry pi would be really fitting. It's nice to see it is still being cared for! Although I didn't know it was still in alpha after all this time. This is really release-quality software, as far as I am concerned.
What are you talking about? SuperTux 0.5.1 was the latest stable release, released back in 2016. So it's not "alpha after all this time". This new alpha version 0.6.0 was only released 6 days ago.
I guess the title of the article as well as the version number scheme confused me. I didn't double check, though, my bad, thanks for pointing it out (though the beginning of your post feels unnecessarily harsh, TBF
).Last edited by MayeulC on 22 November 2018 at 12:58 pm UTC
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honestly? we dont need this.
the potential for code reuse is almost non existant, we should make an remake of it on godot, that would be a big deal.
at the current state its freedom, but gives the user less creative freedom than mario maker (unless they are hardcore coders, but even in this case , they would have better results using an game engine anyway)
the potential for code reuse is almost non existant, we should make an remake of it on godot, that would be a big deal.
at the current state its freedom, but gives the user less creative freedom than mario maker (unless they are hardcore coders, but even in this case , they would have better results using an game engine anyway)
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