Beta stuff about STK?

[WiiGADD]

I wanted to contribute to the tcrf page and I rlly like hearing about beta/unused content, so do the developers/knowledgeable ppl have any info/picture of interesting unused stuff?

[Alayan]

Honestly, I would say that in general there aren't that many unused things for SuperTuxKart.

We don't have too many resources, so we can't really create too many things that we don't use. And some external content (tracks, karts...) that someone else made, that was considered for inclusion, but didn't make the cut, wouldn't fit the classification either.

Of course, new tracks, new models, etc. always go through multiple steps of improvements before the final version is ready, but digging our archives for half-finished content feels a bit too much like extra work. 

Back in 2018, I remember that Sam had a Cyberpunk track concept. It looked horrendous without dynamic lights (back then, my PC was too weak to run them at decent framerates) and I wasn't too happy about the gameplay design, but Sam left the project for several years afterwards, so it never went anywhere.



(Also, I moved this thread to the general forum - it asks about things related to the development process, but doesn't really fall into the intended purpose of suggestions, feature discussion, etc. of the development forum)