The characters could start out as just the ones in supertuxkart and then go from there. I'd be happy to help with the movesets, balancing, and playtesting. I don't have any experience with Godot yet but I have been meaning to learn!
As long as you keep it's permissions locked down, it's better because at least with GMessages you get encryption on some charts whereas SMS is just pure text being sent through your cell provider.
Bug reporting is really helpful for smaller projects. My personal policy is to check if a big has already been reported. If it hasn't, go to the project forum and ask if I'm doing something wrong. If it turns out there's an actual issue, I report it as a bug. You can go straight to reporting it after step one if you want but I usually just make sure.
Generally they don't and I'm still wary of Zen but as long as they're staying on the latest FF version and not adding any telemetry of their own then I'm gonna use it.
The characters could start out as just the ones in supertuxkart and then go from there. I'd be happy to help with the movesets, balancing, and playtesting. I don't have any experience with Godot yet but I have been meaning to learn!