The open source kart racing game, Supertuxkart 0.9.3, was released earlier today. The new release features in-game screen recording and Android support.

Supertuxkart 0.9.3 release highlight:

• Reduced RAM and VRAM usage, reducing load times.
• New mesh format optimized for space and hardware skinning
• Code refactoring of both render pipelines
• New karts Wilber, Hexley, Kiki and updated Konqi.
• New tracks Cornfield Crossing and Candela City
• Physics improvements and various physics bugfixes
• Kart GFX improvements (exhaust and headlight)
• In-game screen recording powered by libopenglrecorder
• High quality mipmap generation by Stragus
• New smoother camera
• New Grand Prix win scene
• Gamepad configuration bugfixes
• 3 Strikes Battle: added spare tire karts
• Various improvements (see the release note)

How to Install Supertuxkart 0.9.3 in Ubuntu:

There’s a stable PPA contains the new 0.9.3 release for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and next Ubuntu 18.04.

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stk/dev

Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. If you have a previous release installed, just upgrade it via Software Updater.

Or run commands in terminal to install or upgrade to Supertuxkart 0.9.3:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install supertuxkart

Uninstall:

You can launch Software & Updates utility and navigate to ‘Other Software’ tab to disable or remove the PPA.

To remove the game, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove supertuxkart