[Supertuxkart-devel] Super Tux Kart

[Lucas M. <dje...@me...>]

Hi. 
I really like racing game and Super Tux Kart was the 1st I've played on ! (It was the 3rd or 4th version, I think...) But, since that time, I've discovered Mariokart, and then Need For Speed & Trackmania... Now, I remember this game & I'd like to help you improve it (just by giving ideas for the moment...) 
1) There is no tech in STK. You just need to turn left & right, and sometimes to brake. You should add lots of things : 
- Drifts. Like in the new versions of mario kart, just add drifts with turbos at the end of them !!
- Wheelies. In the 1st versions of STK, you could do wheelies. It was a great idea, why did you forget it ??
- Shortcuts. In STK, there are no shortcuts, or some are 'invalid', or the lap just doesn't count ! Once again, mariokart is better : when you go out of the road, you fall down and you come back on it, but in STK, it's IMPOSSIBLE to cut through the grass, or to jump over a wall (I'm talking about the XR591 track, where there are many shortcuts that prevent the lap from counting !) You should allow some shortcuts and make the player fall on the others.
- There aren't any hazards on the tracks except the bananas...
2) The physics are bad !
- There are bugs when there's a slope on the road.
- There are bugs when you hit the other characters. In other racing games, you just bounce a little and it works prefectly.
- You should differenciate walls & slopes. Sometimes, in a race, I can run on a wall...
3) The items could be better.
- The chewing gum is great.
- The bowling ball is nice, but it should die only when hitting a character.
- The red bowling ball is great too !
- The boost is a bad item. You can't go off road with it, and it nearly doesn't make you go faster.
- The other items should disappear and be replaced. The bananas should be placed by characters. You should add an item to make all the other characters go slower. You should make an item that protects you from being hit by another character.
4) The tracks. It depends on the people who are playing, but I think lots of tracks can be improved. The 3 I reakky like are the one on the moon, the one in the cube, and the canyon one. The others can really be inproved. You should add a track creator to let people who don't know the XML code create tracks. If you don't want to, I've got ideas for new tracks:
- delete the sand track and make a better desert one.
- make a better track in the jungle or make one in a tree.
- make the star track look like the one in STK3 (like a rainbow) and re-enable the shortcut plz :)
- make a mountain track (not a snow mountain one)
- enable the shortcut that enables to jump on teh right of the bridge in snow tux peak
- make another cube track
5) Nothing special in this game. I'll compare it to 5 other racing game : 
- Mario Kart Wii : in this version, there are motorbikes with wheelies.
- Mariokart 7 : There are hanglidings, and water parts.
- Sega All Stars Racing : You can trick when you are in the air, get turbos, and there's a special item for each character
- Crazy Kart : When you have drifted a lot, you get a boost that you can use later.
- Trackmania : there are the stunt, platform & puzzle mode, and you can create your own tracks.
- STK : nothing for the moment, but I've got an idea : make better tracks with multiple paths (like in the cube, I LOOOOOOVE THIS TRACK !!!)
6) The musics.. Except the one from Sky Vibe (High Frequency or Running To Sky, I think), the ones from DJ Helium (secret garden & cerclevicieux) & the one from Chill Carrier (Duckverlust), I don't like the musics. I can make better musics for you for free, I just want my musics to be more famous... Just send me a picture of a track & I'll make (or find) a good music.
That's all for the moment...

djeos546