Various follow-ups

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).

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Various voxel engine ramblings

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,…

Some upcoming releases

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…

Video updates (various)

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…

A tale of two Hexagons

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…

D3 BFG source drop, and new hosted forum

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…

0 A.D. and Megaglest updates

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, …

Cinematic ZeroK trailer

Busy for a while moving… and the crickets take over FreeGamer it seems *chirp* *chirp* :D 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…

Engine reimplementation day!

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…

Open-source head-tracking

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 – GPL First-Person Gravity Not-Like-Portal

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…

Scavenger: Atmospheric Open Source 2D Space Exploration

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…

Aleona’s Tales (Stratagus game)

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…

Major Unvanquished update (Alpha 8)

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…

Promising Open Source jRPG: Valyria Tear

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…

LinWarrior 3D September news 2012

video: LinWarrior September 2012 git gameplay statusA word from the developer of LinWarrior 3D:In the past weeks I’ve been working on some of the last changes to clean up the guts inside the mech class by moving everything to components and system…

Twine: interactive stories builder

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…

Torque 3D engine liberated

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…

Shorts: FreeOrion 0.4.1 and Xonotic Vehicle Gameplay

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…

Shorts: LambdaCube + StuntCarRacer, Naval Warfare, 0 A.D. Alpha 11

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…