Dec 24, 2025
SuperTux Christmas 2025 Newsletter
Hello SuperTux Community,
As a tradition, we’re releasing another Christmas Newsletter for this year.
It’s been a very eventful, busy, but also incredibly productive year for the development of SuperTux. As a result of our collective hard work over the past few years, SuperTux 0.7 is right around the corner. We will soon release a beta version for everyone to try out.
0.7 will feature more improvements, graphics and features than any release of SuperTux ever before. Of course, such a big release wouldn’t be possible without you - the SuperTux community. It has shaped this game to become what it is today, for which we’re incredibly thankful! As such, we would like to invite you to test the upcoming beta thoroughly and report any issues on the SuperTux bug tracker (see links at the top). Also, we’re always looking for new coders, testers, translators, level designers, etc. If you want to help, please consider checking out our socials (see links at the top).
Here’s a summary of the changes present in SuperTux 0.7. Don’t forget to check out the SuperTux Development Summary video at the end of the newsletter for an in-depth showcase of the major features and improvements.
Features
- Various enemies, such as the Ghoul received a full rework, alongside a plethora of bug fixes and tweaks,
- A completely revamped and modernized Level Editor (thanks to swagtoy and Tobbi),
- Introduction of the Glinting mechanic, to accomodate for the removal of the frag level stat,
- A completed revamp of the Yeti and Ghost Tree bosses (thanks to weluvgoatz, MatusGuy and Hypernoot)
- The completion of the graphical revamp (thanks to bruhmoent, FrostC and FilipOK)
- Reorganized credits,
- New objects (e.g. Editor Comment, Big Snowball),
Music
- Even more tracks were added to the game’s soundtrack from various contributors, such as bruhmoent and Servalot.
Thank you for playing SuperTux and we’re looking forward to another great year of SuperTux development in 2026!
Dec 24, 2024
SuperTux Christmas 2024 Newsletter
It’s Christmas once again, meaning it’s also time for our annual newsletter! Here’s a summary of the most important aspects of development progression, during 2024:
Worlds
- Finished Bonus Island 1 remake.
- Started work on the Bonus Island 2 remake.
- First 2 worlds of Story Mode have been remade entirely (with the worldmap only left to be entirely finished).
Music
The game now includes tons of new music from various contributors. Credit to SnugglyBun, bruhmoent and Chitan.
Features
- The introduction of the Item Pocket, replacing our previous Powerup Stacking mechanic with the aim to encourage more strategic gameplay.
- Improvements to Zeekling behaviour.
- Work on new Yeti boss behaviour has started, however it is currently work-in-progress.
Alongside that, many minor features and various improvements and bugfixes were made along the year!
Future plans
Regarding the long-awaited release of v0.7.0, we apologize for not meeting the estimated release months we’ve announced in the past! Development has been active lately and we will do our best to release v0.7.0 in 2025! Thank you for your patience!
We plan to additionally do the following before v0.7.0:
- Merge all waiting Pull Requests on our repository, which are not drafts for the future or big reworks, not suiting our aim to try releasing during the year.
- Perform some testing and apply bugfixes when necessary.
- Call for contributors to help with translation on Transifex.
- Revamp the Ghost Tree with new sprites and behaviour.
- Include even more new backgrounds.
Regarding the future after v0.7.0, check out our Story Mode Roadmap for Story Mode future progression plans!
If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!
Dec 23, 2023
SuperTux Christmas 2023 Newsletter
It’s Christmas time! Here’s a summary of the most important aspects of SuperTux development progression, during 2023!
Worlds
- Full Icy Island remake.
- On-the-way Forest World remake.
- Work-in-progress Corrupted Forest remake.
- Full remake of Revenge in Redmond.
Features
- Added badguys, such as Granito, Corrupted Granito, Root Sapling. Updated others, such as Igel, Zeekling. New Yeti sprites are on the way!
- Many new (some on-the-way) features, such as custom main menu levels, script menu overhaul, worldmap screenshot previews, editor toolbox scrollbar, etc…
- A lot of bugfixes!
Future plans
v0.7.0 is estimated to release in August 2024, where we have planned to also include the following:
- New Ghost Tree sprites + revamp.
- Yeti update with new abilities.
- Introduction of more cutscenes.
- Bonus Island 1 remake.
- Christmas Special remake.
- Halloween Special remake.
- More new music.
Check out our Story Mode Roadmap for Story Mode future progression plans!
If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!