SuperTux 0.3.0 was released is now out in the wild. This is a preview of milestone 2, so expect something a little rough on the edges. Still, it should be fun to play and hopefully attract a bit more community help to the project. Go grab it whilst [...]
Battle Just Started 0.1.0
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Battle Just Started is a fun multiplayer 3D tank game. It has slightly cartoonish graphics and a basic AI (so you can play single player) and is in the early stages of development, but there have been several releases this month already - "release early, [...]
Free Ryzom
Posted by Onote on Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Free Ryzom Campaign is an effort to make the code and the artwork of MMORPG Ryzom available under copyleft licenses. Just today the Free Software Foundation officially backed the campaign with a hefty $60,000 pledge.Robert Schuster brought it to [...]
Wizardy
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Ok, technically not a Free game nor really a game, but the damn thing is almost always right. Almost freaky. Try this little flash game, Wizardy:http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.h [...]
It's A Graveyard Out There
Posted by Onote on Monday, December 4, 2006
Jono Bacon, a Gnome developer, gives an insight into just why Flightgear is so damn cool.The SuperTuxKart team is looking at another release in the near future with an improved UI and lots of bug fixes.The 3rd release candidate for Wesnoth 1.2 has been [...]
Railroad Tycoon now Freeware
Posted by Onote on Thursday, November 30, 2006
The original Railroad Tycoon has been released as freeware. Download it from 2kgames.com who seem to be the official handlers of the freeware RT.JFreeRailsStill, freeware is not open source. There are GPL clones of RT. [...]
VDrift gets AI, Ecksdee update
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
VDrift continues to improve at a rapid rate, with somebody contributing rudimentary AI drivers. The next release should, therefore, be a little bit more fun to play as you get to race the computer as well as yourself!Ecksdee 0.0.9 was released. This [...]
UFO:AI 2.0rc6
Posted by Onote on Sunday, November 19, 2006
UFO:AI 2.0rc6 is out (changelog). "This release candidate should really be the final one for the 2.0 series." With working reaction-fire, an isometric view, and a host of fixes, UFO:AI has emerged as a polished open source game. "We are already working [...]
Angels Fall First
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, October 24, 2006
If you thought yesterday's news was big, Free Gamer comes with an equally impressive post for today!Angels Fall FirstThe prolific artist Strangelet has not been inactive, and has made a special request of the Vega Strike [...]
TA:Spring Rewrite
Posted by Onote on Monday, October 23, 2006
There's a storm of comotion in the TA:Spring community after the lead developers announced intentions to rewrite the entire Spring engine stating unclean code and a desire to utilise external libraries like OGRE to both reduce the codebase size and introduce [...]
VDrifting Away
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Free Gamer has been on hiatus. Sorry! Sometimes these things happen...VDrift made a new release yesterday.Hero of Allocrost released their first tech demo. Thanks to Roots for notifying me and apologies to him for taking a week to say something.Sauerbraten [...]
A Bit Artifical
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Today I'd like to highlight two Artifical Intelligence based games - The breve Simulation Environment and NERO: Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives.NERO (1)NERO (2)NERO describes itself as,"A unique computer game that lets [...]
Slow News, XMoto, SuperTuxKart
Posted by Onote on Monday, September 18, 2006
It's been slow news on Free Gamer, partly influenced by alcoholic intake and partly by the fact not too much happened in the last several days.XMoto 0.2.1 was released as was SuperTuxKart 0.2rc2. Of course, anybody following happypenguin.org will be [...]
Unidentified Flying Objects
Posted by Onote on Friday, September 15, 2006
UFO: Enemy Unknown was released by Microprose over a decade ago. For those not familiar with it and it's predecessors, or for nostalgia, here's a thorough review of one of the all time great games. It is abandonware these days and as such can be downloaded [...]
Sauerbraten, Site Upgrade
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 14, 2006
SauerbratenThere's a new Sauerbraten download and this one is looking beautiful. Just check out the screenshot... wow! This update introduces reflective water, performance improvements, bug fixes, and lots of other little [...]
Nexuiz 2.1, Savage
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Nexuiz 2.1 is out (changelog). Not much to say other than this builds upon the success of Nexuiz 2.0 and continues to establish Nexuiz as a first class open source game.I forgot to mention (sorry!) that Savage: The Battle for Newerth is now officially [...]
Oh So Evil
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, September 12, 2006
I don't know how this game isn't more well known, but I only just found out about XEvil. This game is a cross between Commander Keen and Quake and it's very fun, if a little dated. Action packed and chaotic, it's all about extreme violence platform-style. [...]
Brutal Chess, Warzone, Balder2D
Posted by Onote on Monday, September 11, 2006
Does anybody remember Battle Chess? I loved that game. I think it was one of the games that really got me hooked on using a PC after years of dedication to a spectrum. Well, great news Battle Chess lovers, there's an open source modern equivalent: [...]
New Releases on the Horizon
Posted by Onote on Saturday, September 9, 2006
There are imminent releases for OpenCity and Pingus.OpenCity 0.0.4beta is looking a lot more playable than it's version number suggests with the TODO looking like 0.0.5 will contain most elements you'd expect in a city simulation game.Pingus will probably [...]
Hero of Allacrost
Posted by Onote on Friday, September 8, 2006
Hero of AllacrostHero of Allacrost is a Free single player 2D RPG game that's been in development for some time without any real release. Posted in the Wesnoth forums (rather than their own) is an update on the status of [...]
Review: Fish Fillets NG
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 7, 2006
Fish Fillets NG is the fan-project result of the open sourcing of the original commercial title Fish Fillets from Altar Interactive. It is a fiendishly challenging and addictive puzzle game and is refreshingly original [...]
Mars, TCE, Wesnoth, Pong2
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 31, 2006
Ah, the recent spate of Free game / Free Gamer activity continues. I will be away for the weekend so there will be respite. However, not today!True Combat: EliteBattle for WesnothA new release of True Combat: Elite is [...]
SuperTuxKart Lives, MTP Target!
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 30, 2006
SuperTuxKart has finally emerged as a game in it's own right, with a release planned for September 10th. I'm looking forward to playing it. If anybody thinks they can help out with the release, chip in!SuperTuxKart is the result of the Happypenguin [...]
Niwki Deluxe
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 29, 2006
These days my conscience starts playing up when I don't update FG. Here I am, sat at work, fretting over not having posting an update for a few days. I may have to change format to just blog about things as and when I [...]
Yet More Free Game Updates...
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 25, 2006
Ultimate Stunts 0.6.2 is out. I always loved the original Stunts 4D game that inspired this. Ultimate Stunts looks a little more free form than ManiaDrive and reminds me of an old game Car & Driver whose graphics haven't aged a bit *cough* *splutter*. [...]
Snippets and Tidbits
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Due to personal reasons Free Gaming has been a bit slow lately. Here's a few snippets...Next version of True Combat: Elite will have HDR lighting making it the first Free Software Linux game to ship with HDR lighting (thanks Albert Santoni)VegaStrike [...]
Freeciv Beta + Mania Drive Update
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 18, 2006
There's been an update to Mania Drive. This one introduces a beginners storyline, which is a welcome addition to any non-expert drivers given the difficulty of the previous release! Lots of bug fixes, lots of new levels, [...]
The Silver Lining Demo
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 16, 2006
There is a demo of The Silver Lining (formely known as King's Quest IX) available for download!For those who don't know, King's Quest is a long running series from Sierra. Back in the good old days of 16 colours, this game [...]
ORTS - A Free Software RTS Game Engine
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 15, 2006
OTRSWell, look what we have here. Joining the likes of Boson, Glest, and TA:Spring/TA3D is another Free 3D RTS game: ORTS.The interesting thing about ORTS is the motivation - the AI.ORTS is a programming environment for [...]
Gusanos on Linux
Posted by Onote on Saturday, August 12, 2006
Thanks to Nicklas Marcusson who took the time to email me his findings on running Gusanos on Linux.Without further ado:I saw in your previous blog entry that you mentioned gusanos and I have been looking for a good liero like game for linux, and man [...]
Clanlib update, Pingus to follow?
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 11, 2006
Recently the ClanLib team released version 0.8.0 upon the indie game development world. This "game SDK" boasts an impressive number of games built using it, and one of the more notable ones is Pingus.Pingus LevelPingus [...]
New Mistlands Download
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 8, 2006
What is Mistlands? It's a graphically impressive 3d open source rpg! At the end of July they released Milestone 5, just over a year since their last release. It's online-only, I think, which is a shame. Single player games just aren't the flavour [...]
Intermission!
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 7, 2006
Sorry for the lack of posts... damn laptop died and it's taken several days to sort it out. Between that and an unusually time-sapping week last week, it took the wind out of my free gaming sails.Service will be resumed short [...]
Freecol, VDrift, Sauer... heaven!
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, July 26, 2006
I'll start by noting I messed up my last post. Despite making the post on the 23rd, it was dated the 18th so any frequent readers may have easily missed it. So, for those who haven't yet read it, check out Freeciv3 Part [...]
Freeciv3? Part I
Posted by Onote on Sunday, July 23, 2006
There was an interesting discussion over on the Freeciv mailing lists on the goals of the project.Freeciv developer Per started the conversation by stating what he believes is the main obstacle to Freeciv development at the moment, the clash between [...]
Some Cool Game Updates
Posted by Onote on Friday, July 21, 2006
UFO:AIHot off the press is the 2.0 rc3 release from the UFO:AI team, which is shaping up as a flagship open source game after it briefly floundered due to developer desertion last year. This is another example of why indie [...]
Essential Open Source Tools for Windows
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Windows is not a platform oft associated with open source software, but we can not escape from the fact that the majority of computers world-wide run it as the primary operating system. Free game developers mostly seem to run a Linux variant, but there [...]
More Upcoming Releases
Posted by Onote on Saturday, July 15, 2006
There is a release imminent for Mars: Land of No Mercy, which got it's own .org domain name recently. This isometric strategy mech game is developing at a steady pace and sees version 0.1.2 released next week.New Ecksdee [...]
VDrift - More Cars & Tracks
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
There's a significant update to VDrift, the open source drift racing game. Now it has a decent selection of cars and tracks, 19 and 12 respectively, to play on and development seems to be picking up pace. This is an excellent game and I urge any people [...]
Freecol vs Swecol
Posted by Onote on Monday, July 10, 2006
The 0.5 release of Freecol is imminent! I've been looking forward to this. Freecol is one of the best looking open source games with a very artistic interface. This will be the first really playable version of Freecol, and as such I expect it to take [...]
Dedication's What You Need
Posted by Onote on Saturday, July 8, 2006
...if you wanna be a record breaker! Oooo ooo... </singing> One of the great things about Free software games is that people are free to dedicate themselves to whatever makes them happy. Check out this ship, the [...]