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 [...]