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!
Vote here!
Dec 25, 2022
SuperTux Christmas 2022 Newsletter
Almost every Christmas recently, the SuperTux Team has had an update to release. However, this year there is unfortunately no update. It is not because there was no progress made; it’s quite the opposite! There are so many improvements that have been added, so many more in progress, and so many more that still have to be worked on for the next update, that it was decided best to hold off on an update for this year.
So instead of an update, here is a run-down of the progress for the next update:
Improvements made in 2022
Most of the major improvements made to SuperTux in 2022 include:
- World select
- Local Multiplayer
- Complete revamp of tile graphics
- Sliding
- Crawling
- New iceflower behavior
- Heavy Crate
- Root Crusher
- More fish enemies
- Revamp of addon menu
- Check for updates
- New sprites for some enemies
Works in progress
A lot of improvements are still WIP, such as:
- Finding a way to not break old levels with new graphics
- Improvements to earth flower behavior
- New backgrounds
- Keys and locked doors
- More menu improvements
- New sprites for Tux and Penny
- More new sprites for more enemies
- Updates to every level in the base game
More improvements to be made
And some new improvements have yet to be started, such as:
- Improvements to boss behavior
- Addition of minibosses
- Inclusion of shops
- More graphics
- Other smaller features
So in short, there is still a lot of progress to be made, alongside the progress that’s already been made. 0.7.0 is going to be a relatively large update for SuperTux, and hopefully you all enjoy it when it is done.
If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!