GotM for March 2004: SuperTux

grumbel · Last edited by grumbel on Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:31 am; edited 2 times in total

SuperTux[1] has currently just one level, more or less ugly graphics and a reasonably good engine. Work is already underway to cleanup the engine heavily, create an leveleditor (actually at least two of it) and create a few better tilesets for it. In two weeks the engine and levelformat will hopefully have stabelized enough so that the game could be ready for GotM. The goal in the following month would be to turn the engine into a completly playable jump'n run game (SuperMarioBros style) with around 15 levels, codename Milestone1[2]. The Milestone1 webpage contains some additional informations and sketches what is needed and what is already done, basically the work required is this:

* extent the engine with whatever features are requested by the level designers (moving platforms, more enemies)
* create around 15 levels of variing difficulty and arange them to a completly playable game with a nice raising difficulty
* extent the tilesets to look better, add more varity
* create animated sprites for Tux, SuperTux, FireTux
* create sprites for enemies (MrBomb, MrIceBlock, etc.)
* add music and sound effects to the game

Since there is are already people working on the tileset, leveleditor and engine, there is especially a need for level designers and gameplay testers and of course artists for the music and sound. If somebody is good at drawing animated sprites he is also very welcome. Since the goal for Milestone1 should be just to create a playable game with the current engine without extenting it all that much, it should be possible to reach the goal within one month.

Development will be coordinated over the IRC channel #supertux at irc.freenode.net and there is also a mailing list available at [3].

A test release of the SuperTux level editor is available at:
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/windstille-0.2.1-supertux.tar.bz2

The happypenguin page for the old page is at, it might however contain obsolete informations:

http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Super%20Tux

[1] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/supertux/
[2] http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone1/index.html
[3] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/super-tux-devel

grumbel · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:27 am Post subject: Re: GotM for March 2004: SuperTux

basse · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:14 am Post subject:

ok.
I can create some graphics.
I guess this game is aimed to kids, right, so something quite cartoony?

I make the tuxes and enemies, and we will go from there.

.b

grumbel · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:

grumbel · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:06 am Post subject:

Log of the first IRC meeting is available at:

http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/supertux-meeting1.log

Sepht · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

Next time try to scedual it so that People from most timezones+work types can join.. So like a weekend....

sinf · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:05 am Post subject:

grumbel · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

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sinf · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:27 am Post subject:

Smokey McPott · Guest

is GOTM working so far?

Sepht · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

yeh that sounds good GoTM Discussion on #Gametome, you could scedual a time or just have it whenever.

Voluptuous Pachyderm · Happypenguin Regular Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 196

hi, everytime I try to save or open a level with the windstille editor I get an error and it closes. Is this a known problem? me going the wrong way about it? or just my machine?
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grumbel · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:35 am Post subject:

Voluptuous Pachyderm · Happypenguin Regular Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 196

I cant get the gui/input box up for loading/saving it quits as soon as i hit file->save file->open file->save as. Also I dont currently have any levels to load in and even if i did I doubt I could save them. Just FYI.
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grumbel · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:36 am Post subject: