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Woah, what happened?

this article used to be complete, now all it is just two paragraphs and a few links. rest of the stuff not good enough for wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.221.207.201 (talk) 15:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Complexity is not The Key

It does not matter how complex and state-of-the-art a game is, it matters about how fun the game is. I enjoy playing the game and think it needs more attention on wikipedia. Thats why over next few weeks, I am goimg to work on the page and improve it. Sco1996 (talk) 10:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Information

Plenty of information can be found on the SuperTux wiki. Some information could be used yo expand this article. Sco1996 | I will respond. 10:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The SuperTux wiki does not have a compatible free license, so we can't simply import information, and it's not a reliable source either, so we need to be careful. Hekerui (talk) 11:06, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What I meant when I said that we could use the information, was that we can use the facts and put the into our own words like we would when we research something. I checked out the SuperTux wiki and it seemed fairly accurate (I have the game myself). Also, wikipedia is not 100% accurate as anyone can edit articles. Sco1996 | I will respond. 17:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

In this edit I removed text per WP:NOTAMANUAL, because Wikipedia is not an intruction manual for how to play a game. Hekerui (talk) 12:48, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am not the only one to have edited the section, so what I suggest we do is we leave it up for just now and allow people to vote on the matter. Sco1996 | I will respond. 15:53, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a democracy, which means an argument is required, not voting. I will remove the game play information again to make the article conform to the above cited policy that is a widely accepted standard. Hekerui (talk) 23:17, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well then let people have there say on the matter. I have will put the information back on until more people say the same things as you, as your the only one that thinks it should not be on the page. Sco1996 | I will respond. 07:30, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Again, that's not an argument. Have you read WP:NOTAMANUAL? How does it not apply? Hekerui (talk) 09:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but I simple do not have time to read through a mile long page on guidlines. Every WP page is the same. A discussion page is for disscusing an article. People should have the right to discuss any matter, icluding what is needed on the page. I was not the only one to have edit this section. Sco1996 | I will respond. 10:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Totally inappropriate content. Try flicking through any GA-class game article on here (or indeed any encyclopedia at all) to get an idea of what is and is not appropriate content for an encyclopedia article on a video game. I'll remove the material again tomorrow. For the time being, both of you should stop edit warring over it immediately; behaviour like that is liable to get you blocked regardless of whether you're in the right or not. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:22, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Different encyclopeia's have different criteria. I changed the content to make it sound less like a guide to playing the game that it just so happened to sound like. It is easy to create your own wiki online, so I barely edit on wikipedia now. This means that I don't care if I get blocked. Sco1996 | I will respond. 17:22, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's inappropriate and more importantly, it has no source. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

non-free sample

There is a non-free (or, at least, non-open) sample in the game. "EXCELLENT!" (picking Growth) is a sample from Mortal Kombat series.

Raging as I always am, Yura87 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:45, 21 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

And the coin sound is the same as Windows 95 ding.

Notability?

How is this game notable enough to have its own article? It was never covered by any media outside of the Internet, it wasn't reviewed by any source notable enough to have its score included in GameRankings, and it's pretty much unknown outside of the FOSS community. - 190.138.7.134 (talk) 13:12, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notable enough. Within the FOSS community, it's legendary. And I came here today for the express purpose of finding out more about it. 216.96.138.233 (talk) 14:10, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another FOSS Mario clone/engine? - Yura87 (talk) 06:51, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Mega Mario is a much more complete Mario engine that's also FOSS - though it uses Nintendo artwork (or Nintendo-derived artwork), as well as non-free games. But again, non-free sample is found even in SuperTux.

Milestone 3 (0.5.0) release date

Version 0.5.0 (with Forest World being in story mode) will be released in December 20, 2038. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.180.30.25 (talk) 04:47, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Too many unhelpful images

We currently have 1 image showing gameplay and 10 images of various worldmaps. At least 8 of those are a waste of bandwidth and screen space. The main problem I have with these images is that they have no connection to the rest of the article.

How can we do better?

Use images to show the progression of the graphics over time,
Add images of different locations of the game (cave, forest, sky, night, ghostforest),
Add an image of the level editor

In a few days I will do my best to pick meaningful images that enrich the article. If you have anything to add or want to keep the current images, please let me know.

— Dexxor (talk) 19:09, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done See Special:Diff/957794392 — Dexxor (talk) 16:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citations for old versions

I was unable to find citations for 0.0.0 to 0.0.6 and 0.3.0. I've flagged that accordingly.

Additionally, the things at the end around future releases, I found something that might be a possible citation and it would be great if someone else double checked. Current Design Document on SuperTux GitHub wiki (revision on July 11, 2021) - Also, is there convention on how to cite pages that are not current? I don't want to use the current page link to avoid changes invalidating things. KylieMBrooks (talk) 18:18, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've since found citations for the early versions of SuperTux. KylieMBrooks (talk) 20:04, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]