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SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#61

Looking at the list of characters in the game... and they all reference other FOSS projects. It's both cute and cheesy. Fantastic! https://supertuxkart.net/Discover

One of the first mascots I thought of was the lizard from Open Suse. I'm surprised that's not in there. Any reason why?

The lizard is in the addons: https://online.supertuxkart.net/addons.php?type=karts&name=g...

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#62

Remembered this game back in the early days of Linux GUI.

Huh? SuperTuxKart was initially released in 2007. I recall Linux distributions adding a GUI in about 1994.

Probably means http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/, which I also remember from waaaay back when

Last update on Tuxkart - 5MB (the author apologies for the size of the download)

"" "" "" SuperTuxKart - 574MB

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basic steps, you'll need a bit Google for things specific to your device. 1. Enable developer mode 2. Enable sideloading apps 3. Download an APK of the app. 4. Your device should take it over from there. I ~have~ had a Fire Phone, and it was fairly easy to install the Google Play Store (only because that's where all the apps are, unfortunately,) and installing Aptoide is also pretty easy, too.

Thanks. I can’t seem to find the apk for this game.

It's in the sourceforge folder: https://sourceforge.net/projects/supertuxkart/files/SuperTux...

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#64

Looking at the list of characters in the game... and they all reference other FOSS projects. It's both cute and cheesy. Fantastic! https://supertuxkart.net/Discover

One of the first mascots I thought of was the lizard from Open Suse. I'm surprised that's not in there. Any reason why?

As aasasd pointed out, it exists, but isn't part of the core distribution.

The openSUSE folks include it (Geeko) in the version that you find in their repositories, so that's why you might think that it is included by default.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#66

I wish there was a way to release free software and also charge money for it. This team deserves more than just congratulations and donations for all their good work

They could sell CDs with it on. They could sell T-shirts etc. They could sell fancy graphics / avatars etc.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#67
post #46

Will the F-Droid package be updated to this version eventually?

You'll have to nudge the F-Droid maintainers for that. They grab the source code and compile it themselves. The app developer isn't really involved, they just provide the source code and ideally ensure that it can be easily built by others.

Though you may want to give them a week or two before you go nudge them. They might build it on their own when they find time for it.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#68

I wish there was a way to release free software and also charge money for it. This team deserves more than just congratulations and donations for all their good work

Engine released under GPL, but the media required to play the game is commercially licensed.

It's what John Carmack did with id games.

You pay the game creators for their art, or you can find free art and play the game with that.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#69

Looking at the list of characters in the game... and they all reference other FOSS projects. It's both cute and cheesy. Fantastic! https://supertuxkart.net/Discover

One of the first mascots I thought of was the lizard from Open Suse. I'm surprised that's not in there. Any reason why?

It looks like they've also removed PHP's Elephpant. But at least they have Krita's mascot now.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#70

I wish there was a way to release free software and also charge money for it. This team deserves more than just congratulations and donations for all their good work

They could sell CDs with it on. They could sell T-shirts etc. They could sell fancy graphics / avatars etc.

In todays market, selling it through Steam/GOG and co could work too. Enough people might do that just for convenience sake, even if they could easily download a binary release for free.
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