After almost a year of hard work by Hume2, and contributions by Tobbi and Karkus, on a new in-game level editor, we're pleased to announce our decision of merging the development branch into our master branch!

As this is a large change to the code base, and we intend the editor to be the major new feature in SuperTux v0.5.0, this will need some serious testing. For this reason, we're asking you, the community, to help find bugs and also provide us with feedback and suggestions for changes that could be integrated before the 0.5.0 release. Please report bugs here: on GitHub and follow the bug reporting guidelines.

We would like to avoid publishing a release with a large number of issues, as occurred with the 0.4.0 release. We apologize for those problems.

In order for the testing phase to be effective, we need as many people as possible to help test the current development state. This is the reason we provide nightly builds for many major Linux distributions, Windows, and OS X. They can be found here.

Another important consequence of this change is that there are many new, untranslated strings. The translation resources have been updated on Transifex and are waiting to be translated. We need to highlight that there have been changes made in the translation process to ensure the quality of translations. These decisions are summarized in a comment on issue #351. If you want to see your language included in SuperTux 0.5.0, please make sure the translations meet the new requirements listed there. In addition, we're aware of problems with some translations due to unsupported characters, broken font direction setup or missing character shaping. This issue is being worked on and will be addressed in the 0.6.0 release. For information, see issue #130.

To ensure the translations are included in 0.5.0, you should start to work on the as soon as possible. Strings will be frozen 2 weeks before the release date (we will send out an announcement to translators when that occurs), so please raise concerns with strings before that deadline. In these 2 weeks, only minor localization updates should happen.

After more than a decade of slow, but hard development the SuperTux team is happy to announce the first stable release after 0.1.3 (which was released on 2005-07-09), 0.4.0. Compared to 0.1.3, this release features:

• a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, ...
• support for translations
• in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations
• Bonus Island III, a for now unfinished Forest Island and the development levels in Incubator Island
• a final boss in Icy Island
• new and improved soundtracks and sound effects
• new badguys, bonuses and power-ups (air-, earth- and ice-flower)
• a halloween tilemap
• new graphic effects (glowing objects, particles, ...)
• levels and worldmaps are scriptable using squirrel
• much more game objects: trampolines, switches, portable stones, wind, moving platforms, ... - most of them have scripting APIs
• improved statistics
• many invisible changes, like unit tests, efficiency improvements and more bugfixes
• much more...

• updated translations
• reworked add-on manager to support downloadable and updatable localization packs
• many bugfixes
• added iced-graphics to some more badguys
• melting animation for some badguys
• updated more levels (fix playability, ...)
• updated build system, featuring unit tests, libraries as git submodules and improved Travis-CI builds to support nightly builds
• more levels in Incubator Island
• support for horizontal and vertical gradients that span the length / height of a sector. Add (direction "horizontal_sector / vertical_sector") to your gradient.
• much more...

If you want to stay up-to-date with what's going on with SuperTux, you can do so by following us on Twitter.

Stay tuned for further updates, especially regarding the upcoming stable release of SuperTux later this year.

We (The SuperTux Development Team) have put our heads together, and we are going to try to officially release Milestone 2 sometime in December. We currently are planning on that month, so right now is a crucial time to have people bug testing. If you would like to help with bug testing you can find the latest downloads in the Download section. As always, if you come across a bug ( or what might be one, feel free to report it in our Bug Tracker. If you would like to help us get this release out you can find more information on our contact section.

Whewph, what alot of changes, but here you go. We spent the last few days re-doing the website and updating its info.

The latest release (0.3.5a) Brought the following improvements over earlier versions:

• move to SDL2 for graphics rendering
• glow effects
• new badguys: iceflame, ghostflame, livefire, goldbomb, smartblock
• new bonuses: coinrain, coinexplode
• statistics improved
• icy island levels tweaked
• new sounds
• massive improvements to localization
• efficiency tweaks
• menus reworked
• addon manager improved
• new tilemap: halloween
• new powerups: air- and earth-flower
• support for horizontal gradients in levels (add (direction "vertical|horizontal") to your level)
• A 64 bit Windows installer

Here is a link to video footage of SuperTux 0.3.5a courtesy of o11c.

Yay! 3 weeks after our 0.3.5 release we bring you release 0.3.5a, which fixes a ton of bugs and we added a 64 bit Windows installer!! As always, if you run into bugs, or would like to join us in developing this game, you can find us on Github.

We are excited to bring to you 0.3.5 beta 1 git snapshot! We put a ton of changes and improvements into this release. Head over to the Downloads Section to try it out!!

The Milestone 1 release of SuperTux features:

• 9 enemies
• 26 playable levels
• Software and OpenGL rendering modes
• configurable joystick and keyboard input
• new music
• completely redone graphics

Together with a little story, we hope to provide a good gaming experience with this first Milestone release.

SuperTux is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX as well as numerous other more exotic systems.