The development occurs in a series of stable milestones, each one improving steadily upon the last. The game's metadata are S-Expressions of the programming language Lisp, scripts are written in Squirrel. Game engine and physics engine are own developed. The game was developed under usage of Simple DirectMedia Layer as cross-platform middlelayer targeting OpenGL and OpenAL. Many of the in-game graphics were created by Ingo Ruhnke, author of Pingus. It is written mostly in the C++ programming language.
The game was originally created by Bill Kendrick and is maintained by the SuperTux Development Team. series instead of Mario, the hero in the game is Tux, the official mascot of the Linux kernel. The game was inspired by Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. SuperTux is a free and open-source two-dimensional platform video game published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
