After lots of playing, and after realizing I can put bubble gums in the middle of the track to confuse other karts, with fun effects such as making them collide with obstacles, or fall off the road (as they try to avoid bubble gums), I'd like to discuss more about these simple but fun tricks.

Because of this, why not create other "gifts" that can be collected by players, such as oil that leads karts to slip through some meters?

I was thinking about the idea of a "selfish" mode where only the human player (in single mode only, not in network gaming) can grab objects from blue packages around the track and throw them at other drivers. Might serve for casual gamers who wants to have fun at the expenses of computer drivers. Please have your say.

Any news on a possible release of an official version on iOS App Store? It's been in beta in Test flight for ages now. Thanks in advance. Best regards

There are no officially distributed testing binaries at this stage of development. Both code and assets are still a long way from what STK Evolution aims at.

However, some preliminary track updates and new tracks, as well as a majority of the planned racing gameplay changes, are available to people willing to compile the game themselves.

It is recommended that you already be familiar with how to build the normal version of the game before proceeding.

The code can be found on GitHub in a dedicated branch. It will be merged in the master branch later, after 1.5's release. This code is compiled following similar instructions to the regular version.

It also requires a few assets change. The simplest way however is to grab assets at Fouks repository. They contain the assets patch necessary for the new code to work, as well as alpha versions of a few new tracks and preliminary updates to some existing tracks. Have this stk-assets folder instead of the one from SVN next to the folder with stk-code when launching the built executable.

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