On this warm spring day, the first stable version of the arcade racing game SuperTuxKart 1.0 was released. The game started out as a fork of TuxKart. The developers at Game of the Month, including the original creator of the game, Steve Baker, set out to overhaul every aspect of the game. Unfortunately, as is often the case in the free software world, when there is neither time nor money, the motivation gradually disappeared, and there were no new interested people.
At the end of 2004, Ingo Rahnca announced that the project was "dead" and it was time to fork. It would seem that from a simple statement of the fact of "deadness" and a further fork, no changes can follow. Steve Baker then complained that the Game of the Month team did not understand anything in 3D graphics, and did not fumble in the subject at all. He accused them of "breaking the project by leaving it in a non-working state". But despite all the negativity, the new project gradually developed, and new features were added. Later, JΓΆrg Henriks, Marianne Gagnon and Konstantin Pelikan joined the new team, who continue to delight us with new releases today!
Starting with version 0.8.2, the game switched to its own Antarctica engine, which is a major modification of Irrlicht and supports the latest versions of OpenGL. The game has become more beautiful and dynamic, there are many new maps, high resolution support, as well as the ability to play online. At the end of 2017, a version for Android appeared. On PC, the game supports Linux, Windows and Mac.
Over the past 15 years, many playable characters have appeared in the game. In addition to Tux, the main mascot of Linux, today SuperTuxKart offers dozens of playable characters from the free software world, for example: Kiki from Krita, Suzanne from Blender, Konqi from KDE, Wilber from GIMP and others. Also, many characters can be connected using addons.
New features and changes in SuperTuxKart 1.0:
- Network game. There was a possibility of a full-fledged game via the Internet. It is recommended to connect to servers with ping no higher than 100ms.
- Changed the balance of cards and many characteristics. Now you can tune the characteristics of your own map.
- Changed the game interface and settings menu.
- The Mansion track has been replaced with Ravenbridge Mansion.
- There is a new track Black forest.
Source: linux.org.ru