{"id":3361,"date":"2018-11-13T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2018-11-17T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:30:21","slug":"the-open-source-racer-supertuxkart-is-looking-for-testers-to-try-their-new-online-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/the-open-source-racer-supertuxkart-is-looking-for-testers-to-try-their-new-online-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The open source racer &#8216;SuperTuxKart&#8217; is looking for testers to try their new online play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SuperTuxKart [<a href=\"https:\/\/supertuxkart.net\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Site<\/a>], one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They&#8217;re also now asking for testers.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one caveat though, you will for now need to download and compile it yourself until it&#8217;s properly released or someone provides it ready made for us. The developers said their next release isn&#8217;t actually too far off, as they&#8217;re busy working on a beta\/release candidate so hopefully that won&#8217;t be too long.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, they have around 20 servers up with various game modes for people to jump in and test and you can also host your own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given it a brief test myself and the accounts system works properly, however it&#8217;s difficult to test unless you gather people since there&#8217;s no one online right at this moment. I did manage to find one other person online and gave it a quick spin, seems to work quite nicely:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/9760132311542111850gol1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/9760132311542111850gol1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realise just how far SuperTuxKart has come along! It actually looks quite good when you turn the settings up and put it in fullscreen. Surprising really, it&#8217;s been a long time since I tested it and I&#8217;m genuinely impressed by it now. Adding in online play is going to make it rather sweet indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully with us giving it a shout out, more will hop on to help them deliver a good experience.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re asking for feedback to be sent to them across either their <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.freegamedev.net\/viewforum.php?f=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/webchat.freenode.net\/?channels=%23supertuxkart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRC channel<\/a> and to file bug reports on their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/supertuxkart\/stk-code\/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issue tracker<\/a>. To arrange games our <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discord<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/irc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRC<\/a> are always available.<\/p>\n<p>See their full <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.supertuxkart.net\/2018\/11\/supertuxkart-networking-looking-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Porkhaus on <a href=\"https:\/\/oc.todon.fr\/@porkhaus\/101059871334069295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/articles\/the-open-source-racer-supertuxkart-is-looking-for-testers-to-try-their-new-online-play.12959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuperTuxKart [Official Site], one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They&#8217;re also now asking for testers. There&#8217;s one caveat though, you will for now need to download and compile it yourself until it&#8217;s properly released or someone provides it ready made for us. The developers said their next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/the-open-source-racer-supertuxkart-is-looking-for-testers-to-try-their-new-online-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The open source racer &#8216;SuperTuxKart&#8217; is looking for testers to try their new online play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}