The SuperTuxKart team is glad to announce that the resources we feared might be lost have now been successfully transferred.
This means in particular a continuity of online services for STK players and access for the team to important tools of outreach.
For the SuperTuxKart project, this is the best outcome possible.
While we wish this could have happened more smoothly, last week’s shakeup unlocked the situation, and the shared interest from all parties in seeing the project thrive has allowed to clear things up and to reach a common understanding.
I want to personally thank Benau, who has shown great character in seeking this positive resolution.
SuperTuxKart 1.5-rc2 released
SuperTuxKart 1.5-rc2 is now available for download.
Compared to the previous release candidate, it essentially features bug fixes : new features are avoided in the RC period.
One small exception is a toggle in the advanced graphics settings allowing users to pick the game’s rendering engine without having to manually edit a configuration file. The game’s default rendering engine remains OpenGL, as it’s currently more feature-complete.
New Forum
We are pleased to announce to the community the official opening of our new forum.
This new forum replaces the previous forum hosted by FreeGameDev, that became read-only in the fall of 2024.
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It offers a place for players to have more involved discussions than on instant messaging groups, for contributors to showcase their creations, and for everyone to communicate with the development team.
Improved online server
SuperTuxKart online services — such as creating online accounts, retrieving the list of online servers, and downloading addons — rely on a server provided by the STK team.
On Thursday 4th, they have been successfully migrated to a new, more powerful server. For players, there is nothing to do: the game will automatically connect to the new server when you need to access online services.
This change addresses the issue of sporadic overloads observed in past months, that would occasionally disconnect game servers during races.
It also incidentally make the game snappier in some situations where it waits on an answer from the main server, such as loading the list of servers.
Conclusion
Please report bugs you might find in the rc2 release, and don’t forget to register on our forum to discuss about the game.
Stay tuned for upcoming SuperTuxKart news: 1.5 release, SuperTuxKart Evolution’s roadmap, and more.
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Is supertuxkart evolution a sequel and separate from supertuxkart? or is the original supertuxkart going to be updated to evolution and be one game?
ReplyDeleteSuperTuxKart Evolution is the name of the next major release of SuperTuxKart (basically the 2.0 version of the game). All the 1.X versions of the game will still just be called SuperTuxKart.
DeleteAwesome!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat does the STK team think about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds?
ReplyDeleteHello. I would like to know if you guys don't add currency/revenue in Super Tux Kart Evolution. The game is perfectly fine even without the need of micro transactions. I had struggles finding a game without in-app purchases. This is a perfect game.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, we have no intention of degrading user experience with any kind of pay-to-win or with random ads. Those methods that are common in many free-to-play games, and especially in mobile games, are completely contrary to our core values. They disrespect the user time, privacy, and generally make the experience worse since the game is tuned to push players to pay instead of tuned for fun. SuperTuxKart will never have that under our watch.
DeleteHowever, donations will be appreciated to help support development, and there will be some extras in a donation package, like there was already from versions 0.9 to 0.9.3.
Hello. I have a few tips that you guys can work on. For example, make a function to upgrade, tune the kart based on our likings in Super Tux Kart Evolution. Make a livery editor where we could give the karts a new paint job, flames, stripes, or maybe even reference famous real word race car liveries with sponsors (Porsche 911 GT3 RS Rexy, Ford GT Gulf livery, McLaren MP4-25 Vodafone chrome livery) and more. Sorry for being such a car nerd hehe. 😅
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