[Super-tux-devel] Release Schedule/Milestones/GotM

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Hi,

as it is today, SuperTux provides a more or less working MarioBros1
style engine, but lacks levels, a readable font, graphics and other
stuff like that. The current Todo[1] is very much focused on the far
furture, basically going into a YoshiIsland/MarioBros3 direction,
which would mean a huge change for the engine (backscrolling, vertical
scrolling, different shaped tiles, an "Oberwelt"[2]). While that is
good and fine to focus a bit on the far future, I would consider it a
bit of a waste to simply throw the current working engine away. So my
suggestion is that we:

 * fix up the current engine back into a usable state, ie. MarioBros1
   like, no back-scrolling or other funky stuff that could get too
   complicated

 * create new graphics or update the current ones where doable

 * create a handfull of levels and connect them to a playable game

 * create a little credits-screen/extro or something like that

 * time-frame for this should relativly short, something around one
   month, see also the discussion about "Game of the Month" at
   happypenguin[3]

[1] http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/development/index.html
[2] The part of the game that are not the levels, but which connects
    them, also known as levelmap, not sure if there is a correct english
    term for it.
[3] http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1156
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