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GCW Zero Kicksterter is a project to create a spiritual successor to the low-cost Dingoo A320 handheld gaming console. Thanks to SiENcE for pointing this out! This post was retrieved from freegamer.blogspot.com. How soon is the deadline on your FOSS game project?You’re probably thinking that you don’t have one. And in the sense that a commercial developer would use the word deadline, you don’t. There’s no date looming above you on your calendar, no… Looks like we will get some nice x-mas presents this year:A bit delayed but probably right on time for the Mayan end of the world, we will see a long awaited new release of Cube2:Sauerbraten. Read about the release announcement here. Hmm, I wonder if i… Today I let the videos speak:First of all a nice FOSS bullet hell SHUMP, called Shumpacabra:Taisei Project is maybe also relevant if you like getting killed ALOT (hehe, insider joke for q).Previously mentioned Cube Trains (based on Frogatto) has reache… Ancient Beast is a FOSS game project that has been in development by Freezing Moon for a couple of years, tantalizing everyone with top notch concept art and 3D models. After a rather large restructuring in game scope, where they changed from atte… Ok, we don’t normally do these kind of recruitment posts (don’t send us emails about that!), but for the following two FOSS game gems we will make an exception (and it is officially sanctioned by our boss Charlie I filled a recent craving for playing a sci-fi real time strategy game by re-discovering Bos Wars and playing every single player map.image: Bos’ level of art, many screenshots indicate a much lower quality.The game runs on low-spec computers and can b… Today I thought it might be nice to have a small talk about Digital Asset Management systems (DAMs). Now I have to admit, given the abundance of open-source DAM systems and my general lack of having actually tried them, might make me not really qualifi… This is a guest post by user Hythlodaeus, discussing open source clones, indie game community behavior and developer’s apologies.video: Open Hexagon – Official Release TrailerVee Software’s Open Hexagon is a very, very recent game, but even in its… Hot off the press is the news that id software has released the source-code to their Doom3 remastered BFG edition. Have a look at the code here. It seems like Mr. Carmack has back-ported a few nifty things from idTech5, so this is potentially quite use… Some assorted news from the FOSS RTS thematic area.First of all, Megagest saw another somewhat bigger release (3.7.x), and someone also made a nice cinematic for them:Sadly no news on the planned graphical update, as the merger with GAE seems on hold, …  Time remaining to vote SourceForge.net has “Project of the month” to promote communities supporting their favorite projects. December 2012: UFO:AI battles against JStock in the poll for “Project of the month”. It’s a close race. You know what you have to do. This post was retrieved from freegamer.blogspot.com. Busy for a while moving… and the crickets take over FreeGamer it seems *chirp* *chirp* This is a guest post by user Hythlodaeus, discussing GPLed video game engine reimplementations, and presenting several projects related to the topic.I thought I should take some time to discuss in detail one form of project that has been sometimes feat… So unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard about the new VR-google craze soon to hit every hard-core gamers cave (e.g. Occulus Rift). We talked about the FOSS engine getting Occulus support before, and now that id software promised … Force: Leashed is a free first person gravity fiddler. To advance, you need to guide rockets to their targets using spherical potential fields. And no, it’s not like Portal. That much.Force: Leashed was started as one of the 2012 7DFPS protot… Image: Scavenger in-game creditsScavenger is a simple space exploration game set in a large debris field, created by Fiona Burrows in December 2009.It is polished, very atmospheric and expresses a subtle sense of humor inside item/object names.Scavenge… Two games recently started “Kickstarter”-style campaigns on IndieGoGo with part of the offer being “becoming open source”:Monster 2, a JRPG which has been open source for a while but then was closed during a upgrade of game data/content, will be r… Small retro-style quick news today, so that you don’t hear the crickets here on FreeGamer:There is a new game available for the FOSS classic engine Stratagus (read up on the history of it here). It is called Aleona’s Tales:Looks very familiar, right? Y… UPDATE: Here is a nice video of the (Note: Alpha) gameplay:Yesterday (following their monthly release cycle) a new alpha from Unvanqished was released. For those with bad short term memory: Unvanquished is trying to revitalize the RTS/FPS hybrid Tremul… |
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Anyways, I am partially back in business, so a warm HELLO from East Africa!!!So nothing much to report right now, except that there is a really nice cinematic tr…