SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 Released, Available PPA for Linu Mint / Ubuntu Derivatives
Install/Update SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA
SuperTuxKart is a fun, addictive, feature rich, multiplatform and freely distributed game that simulates kart racing. As its name suggests, the main character of the game is Tux, the Linux mascot.
Features at a glance
Key features include support for multiplayer games using a split-screen setup, over 20 arenas and tracks to play on, as well as support for multiple gameplay modes, including Single Race, Grand Prix, Time Trial, 3-Strikes Battles and Follow-the-leader.
Additionally, the game features fun characters, such as Tux, supports up to 4 players playing simultaneously on the same computer. Whether you want to visit the Egyptian pyramids, drive through the sand, view the great lighthouse, race in space or underground, SuperTuxKart is the game you want to download.
When racing, you should be very careful at the things thrown by opponents, such as bubble gums, cakes, plungers or even bowling balls, which will destroy your kart and get you out of the game.
What's new in SuperTuxKart 0.9.2
- This release includes a lot of work from Benau, a new developer. Thanks to him, we are now supporting TTF fonts, which is a lot easier for us to maintain and should ensure that all characters from all main languages are now available. He also finished recording races and ghost replays (where you can try to beat a recorded race), which were started as Google Summer of Code projects, but never completely integrated. Additionally he finished and significantly improved work on computer opponents in battle mode, and even added the ability to play in teams with and against the computer in soccer mode.
- To celebrate the new AI support for soccer mode, we created a poster for "Copa Antarctica" Antarctica Cup, a set of 3 arenas. The first one made by Benau and Samuncle is a new soccer field called "Icy Soccer Field", which is included in the release.
- Similar to what we have done in the past, we are offering the remaining others as gift package for people donating to SuperTuxKart. This package includes a new arena and soccer stadium "Las Dunas", in a daytime version and a separate nighttime version for soccer competition.
- Additionally the gift package will also include the latest version of "Candela City", which was previously included in the gift package. The gift package can be downloaded after donating to SuperTuxKart. We use this money to pay for addon and web server for now, and will be using more for network development.
- But we have even more new tracks. Included is now also "Antediluvian Abyss" track by Samuncle, which replaces the old subsea track. An early-access version of this track was part of our previous gift package for donators, but as promised it is now released as part of the standard release.
- We also included a new track by first time contributor Ponzino - a new 'Volcan Isand" track.
- Ozone0ne and Krobonil have also contributed a new original song for the farm track; and Flakebi implemented a new kart characteristic system, which makes it much easier to modify the kart physics and have karts with different behaviour.
- As mentioned in the previous post, networked multiplayer is unfortunately not available yet as there is more work needed to make it work well. We have done some serious work, and a lot of improvements to show, but feel that it is not yet good enough for a special LAN-only mode. More work is needed to make LAN mode work good enough for an enjoyable game experience, and we decided to spent more time and have a good release instead of one that would potentially suffer from stuttering. But stay tuned for more news on networking, it is our top priority.
Install/Update SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA
Because it is available via PPA, installing SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stk/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install supertuxkart-data
To remove, do :
sudo apt-get remove supertuxkart-data
