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First off as a rather fast follow up on the last post:
Otherwise, as previously mentioned, Garage Games has now also released their 2D game framework under the MIT license: Their 3D game engine also saw some nice updates lately, however sadly their crowd funding push to port Torque3D to Linux fell (not totally unsurprisingly) short of their 30,000$ mark (with about 10,000$ pledged). This post was retrieved from freegamer.blogspot.com. I have outed myself previously as not a big Minecraft fan, so take everything in this post with a grain of salt (as I obviously don’t really understand that genre).Anyways… recently this sub-reddit for open-source games was pointed out in our forums,… 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… 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, … 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… 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… video: Valyria Tear: Woods, Savepoint and Battle [git2012-09-02]Valyria Tear [blog, GitHub] is making stable progress! One new code contributor on GitHub, one new art contributor on OpenGameArt, a stable commit history.If you are looking for a fre… Creating a simple story in twineTwine is a tool for creating non-linear stories that can be played in HTML. Here are some examples. It’s available under GPL and runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.There’s also a tutorial available by a game desig… The people behind the always very indi friendly and well renowned commercial Torque 3D engine announced a fews weeks ago that they will release the quite fully featured engine and tool-box under the very liberal and FOSS MIT license.Well, and today the… FreeOrionimage: Moving a fleet around in FreeOrionvideo: FreeOrion testplay (best viewed at 720p HD)FreeOrion 0.4.1 has been released a month ago. There still is no manual ship combat mode and there is a certain sluggishness regarding GUI responsivenes… video: StuntCarRacer/LambdaCube 3D demoStuntCarRacer (last release 2006) got re-born as a demo for LambdaCube 3D, a Haskell-based rendering engine.video: Naval Warfare TestNaval Warfare is a game in progress being made at Universidade de Brasília… Somewhat related to the previous blog post (don’t forget to vote to give a VR kit to the Cube2 developers), I can bring you the news that you can now download a new release (1.3 Galactic Edition) of Red Eclipse. By the words of the developers this is m… video: OpenMW v. 0.17.0 CommentaryThe OpenMW engine re-implementation for proprietary RPG classic Morrowind brings fixes, a pause menu, camera modes and proper player control, potion usage, drain/fortify dynamic stats/attributes mag… |
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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…