[Super-tux-devel] press release / announcement

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

I have developed a press release concerning the development of our
game.  Feel free to edit it as you like.

SuperTux version 0.0.6 is a massive rewrite of the older SuperTux code
(from 0.0.5, before the recent rejuvenation of the project).  In other
words, not only have we made innumerable bugfixes, we've structured the
code so that it will be easier to build upon in the future.
The game is still very basic, but can at least in this sense it has
achieved the status of a fully playable minimalist jump-and-run game. 
This is progress.
A level editor is now built into the game which is functional and yet
easy to use.  We encourage you to pick up the game and its editor and
develop some well written levels and submit them to our mailing list, so
that we may incorporate them into upcoming releases.
Having come in as Game of the Month has certainly spurred SuperTux's
development.  A handful of very talented coders and artists have stepped
forward to work toward Milestone one.  Through our combined efforts and
discussion, we have agreed that moving toward Milestone 1 a new
direction is being taken for the game.  The old geek humor of killing
BSODs and eating caffinated mints had a certain level of entertainment
to it... however, we want the game to be good in its own light and not
be held back by geek politics.  This, along with what the team feels to
be a need for better aesthetic appeal, has led us to the decision to
completely redevelop the graphics of the project.  We aim to implement
these by release 0.0.7.  A mock screenshot of the new style is available
here:
http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone1/images/supertux-gamescreen.jpg
and some of the artwork being developed is available here (along with
XCF files for GIMP users):
http://lingocomic.com/gfx/goodies/supertux/
More information about our goals for milestone 1 can be found here:
http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/
Moving forward, we also do not plan on continuing Supertux as a strict
clone of the Super Mario Bros series.  While still maintaining the
initial concepts for game structure, we are allowing ourselves to branch
off into new, creative directions.

---- That's the end of the release.  Other than adding comments about
how awesome it is that Christopher Webber of lingocomic.com is working
on the project, I don't think that there's anything else that needs to
be added ;)

Christopher Allan Webber


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