[HN Gopher] SuperTux
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SuperTux
Author : floriangosse
Score : 128 points
Date : 2024-02-27 19:42 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| forthwall wrote:
| I remember playing supertux as a kid when my grandparents bought
| me a disk of games for my birthday. It was just a bunch of FOSS
| games like these ripped to a disk and sold to unknowing
| grandparents.
|
| Fun to see that the source is out there on github
| danjoredd wrote:
| classic game
| haunter wrote:
| Shout out to Tux Racer too, still works perfectly (at least the
| Windows binaries)
|
| https://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/
| kunrii8528 wrote:
| It immediately crashes for me on Ubuntu 22.04, unfortunately. I
| wanted to play it.
| monocasa wrote:
| It's in the default package manager as extremetuxracer which
| is the fork that's still maintained.
| kcb wrote:
| Also: https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code
| kej wrote:
| SuperTuxKart runs well on Android, and it will let you use
| the accelerometers to steer (so you just tilt the whole
| device like a steering wheel) which gives it a feeling a
| little like the Wii version of Mario Kart.
| colinsane wrote:
| OpenStreetMaps x SuperTuxKart has got to be one of my
| favorite hidden niches:
| https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SuperTuxKart
| orblivion wrote:
| I haven't played for more than a minute, but reading the README
| here, it's interesting how there's a different experience with a
| FOSS game released but still in development, especially over so
| many years. Instead of "SuperTux 2" you have incremental changes.
| "The next level is finished, all the boss battles are improved".
| There's no canonical versions like there are with at least
| classic console games. I know modern games have patches and stuff
| but I don't think they rework the game this way but I could be
| wrong.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| > I know modern games have patches and stuff but I don't think
| they rework the game this way but I could be wrong.
|
| Sometimes game patches for modern games do rework game balance
| or playability, rather than just fixing bugs.
| entropicdrifter wrote:
| Yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 patch changes the game massively,
| for instance
| j5155 wrote:
| Minecraft (Java Edition) is probably the most notable game like
| this. It's continued to be the same game with few engine
| changes/rewrites from the single dev basement project up until
| the present day dedicated sub company in Microsoft.
| Tommah wrote:
| DOTA 2 gets rebalanced constantly; certain characters are made
| stronger or weaker. Overwatch also received some major changes
| relating to team composition.
| dudul wrote:
| They definitely do rework modern games. I don't know if it's
| still technically EA but No Man's Sky gets massive patches
| regularly. MMOs also get game changing updates.
| phh wrote:
| Well, there actually is/was a Supertux 2. I don't remember the
| specifics, I think they rewrote it from blit 2D into OpenGL?
| You can see here :
| https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/blob/master/supertux2.d...
| that it's called supertux2
|
| But yeah this has nothing to do with the actual content of the
| levels, it only refers to the engine.
| tiagod wrote:
| This game got weirdly very popular among kids of a very specific
| generation, here in Portugal.
|
| The "Magalhaes", an Intel Classmate variant that was available to
| school kids between 2008 and 2010 for a price between 50EUR and
| 0EUR (depending in social security status), came bundled with
| both Windows and a Portuguese Linux distro, which shipped with
| SuperTux by default.
| linkpuff wrote:
| I've got a bunch of these Magalhaes at home due to having my
| parents work at schools. If I recall correctly, SuperTux was
| exclusive to the first version of the laptop(there were two)
| and you can still turn heads nowadays if you take one out in
| public, which is pretty cool. Too bad that, despite their
| ruggedness, the Magalhaes 1 had a very frail hard drive whose
| death meant that the BIOS would lock up completely when
| booting, not even allowing you to get to the setup menu, which
| for a kid meant that it became a paperweight.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| I was hoping this would be the belly-sliding game that I had on
| Mac OS X circa 2001. Someone made it with whatever new-to-MacOS
| tech to show off what could be done that wasn't possible on Mac
| OS 9 and I downloaded it from somewhere.
|
| Was a fun third-person 3d racing game of some sort. Tux raced
| down a hill covered in snow on his front and you could steer
| around trees and rocks and such. My memory is probably getting
| the details wrong.
|
| Edit: haunter had the answer. It was a port of TuxRacer.
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