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

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Hi all,

that's mostly the same as I planed and told you already. ;)

Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Ingo Ruhnke um 07:35:
> 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.

That's the big problem and I hope to receive a bit more stuff _after_
the 0.0.6 release.

>  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

Hey, backscrolling _is_ already possible. ./supertux --debug-mode. ;)
Bill Kendrick has prepared the "Oberwelt" idea, so this is in the spirit
of SuperTux and therefore a must! :)

> 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:

Yep.

>  * 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

Well, there is much place for funky stuff and I rewrote much SuperTux so
that adding them isn't that hard.

>  * create new graphics or update the current ones where doable

Yep.

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

Yep.

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

Dunno, if that's needed.

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

I don't think SuperTux is a good candidate for such a title atm.
Wait until 0.1. I'm trying to make short cycled releases after 0.0.6.

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer
--