Dec 24, 2024
SuperTux Christmas 2024 Newsletter
It’s Christmas once again, meaning it’s also time for our annual newsletter! Here’s a summary of the most important aspects of development progression, during 2024:
Worlds
- Finished Bonus Island 1 remake.
- Started work on the Bonus Island 2 remake.
- First 2 worlds of Story Mode have been remade entirely (with the worldmap only left to be entirely finished).
Music
The game now includes tons of new music from various contributors. Credit to SnugglyBun, bruhmoent and Chitan.
Features
- The introduction of the Item Pocket, replacing our previous Powerup Stacking mechanic with the aim to encourage more strategic gameplay.
- Improvements to Zeekling behaviour.
- Work on new Yeti boss behaviour has started, however it is currently work-in-progress.
Alongside that, many minor features and various improvements and bugfixes were made along the year!
Future plans
Regarding the long-awaited release of v0.7.0, we apologize for not meeting the estimated release months we’ve announced in the past! Development has been active lately and we will do our best to release v0.7.0 in 2025! Thank you for your patience!
We plan to additionally do the following before v0.7.0:
- Merge all waiting Pull Requests on our repository, which are not drafts for the future or big reworks, not suiting our aim to try releasing during the year.
- Perform some testing and apply bugfixes when necessary.
- Call for contributors to help with translation on Transifex.
- Revamp the Ghost Tree with new sprites and behaviour.
- Include even more new backgrounds.
Regarding the future after v0.7.0, check out our Story Mode Roadmap for Story Mode future progression plans!
If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!
Dec 23, 2023
SuperTux Christmas 2023 Newsletter
It’s Christmas time! Here’s a summary of the most important aspects of SuperTux development progression, during 2023!
Worlds
- Full Icy Island remake.
- On-the-way Forest World remake.
- Work-in-progress Corrupted Forest remake.
- Full remake of Revenge in Redmond.
Features
- Added badguys, such as Granito, Corrupted Granito, Root Sapling. Updated others, such as Igel, Zeekling. New Yeti sprites are on the way!
- Many new (some on-the-way) features, such as custom main menu levels, script menu overhaul, worldmap screenshot previews, editor toolbox scrollbar, etc…
- A lot of bugfixes!
Future plans
v0.7.0 is estimated to release in August 2024, where we have planned to also include the following:
- New Ghost Tree sprites + revamp.
- Yeti update with new abilities.
- Introduction of more cutscenes.
- Bonus Island 1 remake.
- Christmas Special remake.
- Halloween Special remake.
- More new music.
Check out our Story Mode Roadmap for Story Mode future progression plans!
If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!
Jun 9, 2023
Bonus Island 2 Revamp: Vote for your favourite levels!
We have prepared a survey, where you can vote on which levels you want to see revamped for the new (now forest themed) Bonus Island 2!
Levels
You can vote for forest levels from:
- Bonus Island 3
- Bonus Island 4
- The pre-v0.6 Forest World (i.e. v0.3.0 to v0.5.1), which are no longer present in the current Rooted Forest in Story Mode!