Friday Fun: Racing Fun with SuperTuxKart Racer

We finally made it to another Friday so it's time to kick back with a cool free racing game! Tux Racer is a free game based on the Mario Kart concept, but features the Linux mascot Tux instead.

There are a bunch of fun tracks and characters to choose from, and you can play using either single or multi-player modes.

Playing Super TuxKart

Single mode lets you race against 4 other characters to get the best time.

SuperTuxKart allows multiple players (up to 4 at a time) on the split screen and allows multiple screen views. There are power-ups scattered around the track containing weapons and other items you can use against other racers to deter their progress.

If you drive off the track the "angel" tux will rescue you with a magnet so you can start again from where you left off.

SuperTuxKart is open source and runs on any platform (Linux, Mac OS X, XP, Vista, and Windows 7) but we've only personally tested the Windows versions.

Download SuperTuxKart for Windows, OS X, or Linux

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This article was originally written on 02/20/09 Tagged with: Games, Fun, Windows, Linux

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Comments (11)

1. February 20, 2009 8:14 am
   brgulker

   Just a shout out from a Linux/Windows user who is happy to see something related to Linux again!

   And I always appreciate cross-platform tips and tricks, as I interact with both OSs on a daily basis.

   Great work!

2. February 20, 2009 9:36 am
   Alex

   Whenever I try to download this, I download it, but the file format is unspecified. I add a .exe at the end of the file name

   and then when I try to run it, I get a message saying:
   The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail

   Does anyone else see the same message?
   '

3. February 21, 2009 12:55 am
   Joerg

   Hi,

   you most probably downloaded the 0.6.1a patch only (which only is one file to replace the executable in a 0.6.1 package, see note/instructions in the download section). Please download the full windows package, and install it (and the redistributables it ask to install, too). Any other problems, please contact us in our forum.

   Cheers,
   Joerg (STK project leader)

4. February 21, 2009 2:40 pm
   Tim

   I've got this version on Windows XP and it installed and runs fine, but the Ubuntu or Debian packages aren't out yet. So I'm stuck with version 0.5 on Linux so far (the Linux binary didn't seem to work, or I don't know how to make it work on Kubuntu). Anyway, I've got plenty of good things to say about it on windows, with the skidding and new exciting tracks and plenty else. Love it.

5. February 21, 2009 2:45 pm
   mysticgeek

   Thanks for your feedback Tim! Has anyone tried this on Mac OS X?

6. February 21, 2009 3:28 pm
   Alex

   mysticgeek - is there any other way to download the .exe?

7. February 21, 2009 4:38 pm
   zcat

   "sudo apt-get install supertuxkart" ought to work

8. February 21, 2009 8:12 pm
   mysticgeek

   @Alex:

   Here is a link which points directly to the exe for download.

   http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=supertuxkart&filename=supertuxkart-0.6.1a-win.exe&use_mirror=voxel

9. February 22, 2009 12:19 pm
   Jono

   The linux version works great!

10. February 22, 2009 3:06 pm
    MIke

    I have just installed this on the kids Linux edubuntu pc.
    Works great with their logitech controller too!

    Thanks for posting the app and i will continue to watch your site. It's awesome!

11. March 9, 2009 2:03 am
    Alex

    Working all fine now
    Excellent time waster - thanks!