Hello everyone,
there’s a new Super Tux Party release in town! We’ve been working a lot on graphics in this release. We’ve added cel-shading, to get a more cartoony style.

Not cel shaded

Cel shaded

As you can see, we’ve also changed our board fields to a hexagonal shape and added new textures that fit our cartoony theme.

But better graphics are not the only thing that’s coming in this release. We’ve got a new minigame called Memory. This is a 2v2 minigame where you and your partner need to find matching card pairs. The team that finds the most of them wins.

We’ve recruited a host for the boards.

Welcome the official hostess for Super Tux Party, Sara, the OpenGameArt mascot:

She will be happy to show you around the board and explain the rules if you’re not already familiar with them.

At last, I want to thank our kind translators. Thanks to their effort, we’ve got translations for three new languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Russian and Turkish 🎉

If you want to see Super Tux Party translated to your language, then lend us a hand on Hosted Weblate

That’s it for now. See you next release!

Changelog v0.8

New features

• Screenshot key (Default: F2)
• Show licenses for shaders in the credits screen
• New 2v2 minigame: Memory
  • Find matching card pairs!
• Added Sarah as the boards' host
  • Gives tutorial on the first start, explaining the basic mechanics
    • Can be skipped
  • Announces what happens on the board (e.g. the cake is bought and moves to another space)
• Translation progress from our project on Hosted Weblate
  • Added Translation for Norwegian Bokmål (98% complete) to the game
  • Added Translation for Russian (100% complete) to the game
  • Added Translation for Turkish (100% complete) to the game

Improved / Changed

• Lots of visual improvements
  • New Harvest Food minigame background
  • Added furniture to Haunted Dreams minigame
  • Added a bowling alley theme to the Bowling minigame
    • Boxes fall from the sky, stunning players hit, while also blocking the bowling ball
    • Easier movement controls for the solo player
  • Better and gamepad type agnostic control icons
  • Cell shaded everything
  • Hexagon board fields
  • New character splash art
  • Floating fields on the KDEValley board have been fixed
  • Better Shop UI
• Reorganized the control mapping menu
  • Makes it easier to navigate the options with a gamepad
• Fixed a bug that caused newly added human players to become AI players after leaving and starting a new game
• The randomization algorithms avoids playing the same minigame multiple times in a row
  • Doesn’t work between sessions
• The main menu music now starts to play after the audio volume options are loaded