[supertux-devel] Halloween 2014 - Call for Levels

[Tobbi]

Cross-post from supertux-devel mailing list by grumbel.
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Hiho,

as some might already know, I am planning on releasing a new
development snapshot of SuperTux somewhen before Halloween. To make
things a little more interesting, that one will include a new
worldmap, a new tileset and enemies featuring a Halloween theme. The
graphics are now mostly done, outside of a bit of polishing and there
is a single test level along with the worldmap under "Contrib
Levels->Halloween 2014" (this is not meant to be playable). Enemies
are just sprite-swaps, they are done as well.

I plan for around three to five levels for this worldmap, so if
anybody wants to contribute a level, now would be a good time to start
building it.

As style guide:

* only Pumpkin(snowball) and the FatBat(bouncing snowball) are allowed
* levels should be somewhere in the range of 700 tiles width
* a bit of verticality couldn't hurt, nothing super tall, but 40 tiles
height or so might be good
* no/minimal scripting
* no switches, triggers, puzzles and other complicated stuff, just
straight up jump'n run

If more graphics or enemies are needed, send me a request.

Other things that need to be done:

* find some Halloween related public-domain/CC-by-sa music

On the coding side:

* collision detection in SuperTux is really slow, needs an Octree or
something for speedup
* graphics on the worldmap are really slow as well, not quite sure on
that one, maybe to much texture switching

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[Mr. Hilter]

Where can I get level editor that supports Halloween objects for Windows?

[Serano]

...and where the editor for Linux? Can you at least post some screenshots from the tileset?

[SuperMat]

level editor that supports Halloween objects

You just need the standard level editor (or flexlay) and a recent build of SuperTux (from git) with Halloween tiles included.

[grumbel]

I am going to release the thing on the weekend, so if anybody has some levels left, send them in soon.

[grumbel]

If anybody wants to contribute a level, hurry up, this thing is going out on the weekend.

[grumbel]

Halloween 2014 is now released and available in SuperTux 0.3.4 under the AddOn menu.

[Serano]

Excellent! Any chance, that we get an Christmas based island, too?