No, Free Gamer has not met a premature demise! I am merely temporarily really, really busy.Still, there were a few notable releases in the last week. ScummVM hit version 0.9.0 which brings GUI enhancements and support for [at least] two [new] games.Legends [...]
Know your market - OPTIMISE!
Posted by Onote on Thursday, June 22, 2006
Going back to Yoda Soccer, I had earlier talked about performance issues on my 1ghz laptop. Upon reporting the problem, I had this response:This is likely because the game requires a graphics card with 64MB of video ram.Let me get this straight. A [...]
Mono and Bubble Thing
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Well it appears I missed out Onyx from the special on open source 3d space games... or did I? With no pointer to a source repository nor a zip/tar/rar of source, or a freeware download of any mention, I can't classify this [...]
Oo the Madness
Posted by Onote on Monday, June 19, 2006
To any regular readers, apologies for the lapse in posting - I did, though, have a valid reason. It tooks 2 weeks to get infected and 2 days to get out of it! I blame myself for not using protection, especially when it's [...]
Open Source Game Engines
Posted by Onote on Saturday, June 17, 2006
ScummVMFIFEOpenTTDToday is a game engine special on Free Gamer. These are the projects that take your favourite [old school] titles and provide not only a native port but also fix all the nasties that had you saving and [...]
Sauerbraten and TA Spring
Posted by Onote on Friday, June 16, 2006
SauerbratenThere is an updated release for Sauerbraten. This innovative open source 3D FPS is an evolution of the popular game Cube. For those who don't know, Cube and Sauer are not just FPS games but live map modding [...]
Set Your Games Free
Posted by Onote on Thursday, June 15, 2006
I'll start by acknowledging I've been mentioning games I've not yet added to the list. I'm redesigning the layout to be tri-columnar - 3 columns - so they are going into that design and not the current one. The new design should make browsing the list [...]
Nexuiz 2.0 Released
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Nexuiz, a rising star of open source gaming, has reached milestone 2.0. This version brings improved and optimized graphics, weapon balancing, new maps, bug fixes and a single player campaign with "advanced AI" (possibly [...]
Weekend Scourge
Posted by Onote on Monday, June 12, 2006
Well a few days without posting is put down to an all-day BBQ and the trappings of such social occasions. After a good rest I can think lucidly once again.I'll start with the news that Scourge 0.14 is ready. This is a [...]
Open Source 3D Space Games
Posted by Onote on Saturday, June 10, 2006
Welcome to a space game special on Free Gamer!No GravityVega StrikeOoliteParsecCrimson SpaceAt the heart of open source space game development is Vega Strike, a 3D space trading and combat game. With a dynamic universe [...]
Updates & More Updates
Posted by Onote on Thursday, June 8, 2006
I have an ever-growing list of games to add. Soon the existing organisation of the games list will be inadequate so I'll be forced to think of how to make the list more scalable. I'm thinking of an AJAX driven table where [...]
Karting Race to GPL, VDrift
Posted by Onote
I contacted the author of Karting Race with regards to open sourcing the game, and he agreed! There's something to be said for GPL advocacy after all.I really think it's a good idea... I think the main reason, that I haven't [...]
Stunt Playground Source Released
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, June 7, 2006
I'll start with the exciting news that the source to Stunt Playground was released at the end of May. This is a really cool looking game written using the OGRE 3D engine. It really highlights the spreading understanding [...]
One Point Nought
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, June 6, 2006
I added a few more titles to the list: Runescape (online only), FreeCNC (game over), and Karting Race (freeware).Those readers who are Game Tome regulars may already be aware of an update to Armagetron AD. It's reached [...]
Football Focus
Posted by Onote on Monday, June 5, 2006
There was an update for the only well-developed Free football management simulation I know of, Bygfoot 2 was released. Sadly the lead developer is moving on so it may be the last release if nobody takes over maintainership. Saying that, open source [...]
Campaign - FreeTrain Localization
Posted by Onote on Sunday, June 4, 2006
[UPDATE 2009] FreeTrain was translated quite sometime ago, thanks to people who saw this campaign and helped out! It still only runs on Windows but there is hope of a port to Linux - contact the team via the mailing list [...]
Introduction to Wing Commander
Posted by Onote on Friday, June 2, 2006
Thanks to those out there who pointed out the broken Wing Commander Universe link in the exciting prospects section. The link is fixed, now pointing to the WCU section of the Vega Strike wiki (WCU is a VS mod). The original [...]
Another Large Update
Posted by Onote on Thursday, June 1, 2006
Well I just did another large update, including adding another 30+ games to the list - even I'm beginning to get surprised at the quantity of quality Free games out there.I also tweaked the layout further, added an FAQ, and a 'Jump To' quick-nav for [...]
Deadly Soccer in a Warzone
Posted by Onote
A rather topical title has just been released, Slam Soccer 2006 (a.k.a. Bolzplatz 2006), a 3D soccer game with cartoon-style players. It requires Java 1.5 but don't let that put you off. With some half-decent hardware, [...]