michaelth wrote: Split screen multiplayer?It sounds ineresting.
Well, it's only interesting if you have a couple of joysticks (or, if I integrate my wii hack, a couple of wii remotes) around. Using keyboard with more than two players is (imho) close to impossible, even with two people it's hard to find keys that don't cancel each other out (google for 'keyboards are evil').
michaelth wrote: How fine is your game's performance?Can it runs smoothly(more than 60 fps)with 10 or more karts?
Well, I did quite a bit of performance improvements (in case that you have heard of the performance problems of the 'game of the month' supertuxkart version), but we are currently stuck with the rather dated plib library, which doesn't exactly gives the best performance. My laptop is usually fine with 4 karts (now that I write this: I am mostly using a debug executable, so it might be able to handle more), my desktop can run 10 karts with about 100 fps and more (nvidia GS 6800). It actually depends a bit on how many karts you see (which indicates that the performance problem are the kart graphics, and the graphics library we use). We are using display lists, but for better performance most of the data handling should be improved (e.g. sort triangles by texture to avoid texture swapping, generally make use of shared models, e.g. trees in some of the tracks, which are not at all optimised, ...).
michaelth wrote:
How many screens can your game split,4 or more?
2-4 screens. Obviously, there is a certain performance hit, since the scene is rendered multiple times.
And Is a player just compete with some robot karts(controlled by computer) in your game?
You can play against any mixture of up to 4 human karts and more AI/robot karts at the same time (there is a limit of 10 karts atm, but that's mainly due to having to specify enough starting positions in some of the tracks, where the karts have to start on non-default positions).
So I don't think this game form is more attractive than the online version.Currently,I find there are a lot of game players playing the kart game
Which is 'the' kart game? Usually it's "the kart game" is any of the many Mario Karts, but that's not online
online and their passion seemly never drop.Maybe it is the competing between amounts of real players brings them so much fun.
So why not design a pretty good online kart game server?
Well, we are thinking about several options, starting with online highscore lists, download manager for additional tracks, karts etc. I had thought about a kart game server, but the main problem is to get a server with a fast enough internet connection (considering that we are not making any money with the game). Of course, the dream would be to have a online community, with tournament, people could watch other player's races, buy upgrades for karts ... but I think that's a bit too much for our current number of developers (2 regular admins, and currently 2 or 3 active people). It would need some serious amount of money to get proper tracks, the source code up to speed, and then hope to attract enough attention - which might mean running races with price money, dealing with the problem of people cheating (a bit of a problem with open source software), ... All in all not easy.
But we are always open for suggestions and ideas (feel free to contact me at hiker <at> luding dot org, or on our development email list, details are on our web page).
Besides, my main goal is actually to add more mini games (think of racing with a twist). I have quite a few ideas for these, and I think that would make STK stand out from the crowd ... I hope
Best regards,
Joerg