GSoC 2017 Ideas

Even though it's still unclear whether SuperTux will be accepted into GSoC 2017, this page should serve as a list of potential ideas for students. This is not an exact plan, and changes can be proposed. The page can also be used to coordinate mentor assignments.

Multi-Player

A long-requested feature from the user community is having two people (or even more) playing the game. An old patch implements the basics such as multiple instances of the player and multiple input devices, but it does not affect the camera. The plan would be to either repeat this more effectively (the patch mentioned is now out of date) or implement split-screen display, preferably in a way that also allows it to be used for cutscene animations such as pulling a switch.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of C++

Possible mentors: Tobbi

OpenGL ES support

Update our opengl renderer option to be able to support OpenGL ES. This would make running SuperTux on lower-spec devices more fluent, with more fun for the player.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of C++
• Graphic Skills
• It wouldn't be bad, to already know a bit about OpenGl

Wiimote support

SuperTux currently only supports keyboards and joysticks as an input device, but it would be great if you'd be able to play supertux using a bluetooth controller, e.g. a WiiMote ; this project would implement support, using the popular Wiiuse library.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of C++
• Owning a Wii (or at least a WiiMote)

Water Physics / Sliding Physics

Penguins swim quite frequently, but there has not been any swimming in SuperTux so far. This project would add buoyancy and possibly some fluid simulation to SuperTux, allowing Tux to swim as well as any other penguin. Ideas for swimming are here. Also interesting would be the ability to slide down slopes and jump off ramps. Both of these would entail adding support for oriented bounding boxes to the collision detection system.

Possible mentors: Mathnerd314