zequinha {l Wrote}:Currently, we can download and install SuperTuxKart from the website with no problems. It's available to Win, Mac and Linux. Steam won't bring it to anymore platforms as far as I know.
I would indeed not expect more platforms, but a different kind of audience, people who might not look normally at open source games.
Secondly, my main goal for STK is actually for it to be available as a teaching tool (we already had STK used in several University projects), so if stk becomes an example of how to use the stean API, that's an additional benefit (unfortunately that's hard due to our current GPL version, there's a thread about this in this forum somewhere).
Is the download from Steam going to be free or paid?
We are not entirely sure how we will distribute the game on steam, and are considering various options.
Steam is a DRM platform where the games are often sold for profit. Will STK get some funding from this?
Selling STK on steam is
one of the options we are considering. STK as a project has ongoing costs (cost of servers, domain names, hardware costs, ...), so we need to make some money in order to pay those costs obviously.
How will this impact STK on the long run?
No one knows of course. STK will remain GPL, I would hope to get a bigger audience, and maybe more contributors - but who knows.
Cheers,
Joerg