After more than 11 years of development, Flightgear 1.0 has arrived.Flightgear can be played on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, as well as other *nix platforms including FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. Distributed under the GPL, [...]
Simu-this
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
OpenCityOpenCity 0.0.5 has been unleashed upon the wider public. The game is, well, not yet much of a game but it is progressing steadily. I would like to see the author approach maybe the Open Transport Tycoon project [...]
Allo Allo with Allacrost
Posted by Onote on Monday, December 10, 2007
Ok, I've been slacking. I could make excuses (please somebody tell me a cheat so I can complete level 50 of Kobo Deluxe) but I won't.Another Hero of Allacrost release is up for grabs on their website. This version does [...]
Dreaming of a Sensi Xmas
Posted by Onote on Monday, November 19, 2007
Yoda SoccerYoda Soccer 0.73 came out at the start of November - looks like that one slipped past most of the open source community. However it looks like 0.73 will be the last release for this Sensible Soccer clone. Whilst [...]
Breaking News: Glest Updates
Posted by Onote on Friday, November 16, 2007
Glest has carried the accolade of being a leading open source game due to the relatively polished nature of it's graphics at the time of release a few years ago. Since then, sadly, the development pace has not matched the original hype surrounding the [...]
A Day With Charlie Junior
Posted by Onote on Saturday, November 10, 2007
I had an opportunity the other day to do some game playing with my son - so I had the constraint that the games had to be playable by a 7 year old, meaning favourites of mine like Fish Fillets were generally ruled out.First [...]
Glorious Days of Yonder
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Like a time machine, I go back to the days when Free Gamer brought you new games and exciting updates, bound together with poetic abandon that would make a scholar proud.Open FootballThe coveted Free Three Dee football game, [...]
Read All About It
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Mars: Land of No Mercy, it was looking dead, but it's back! The website is back online and hopefully so is development. I would point out that it was always available on Sourceforge but an offline website can be a death [...]
To do - do the to do
Posted by Onote on Sunday, November 4, 2007
I have a few things to do - notably:Integerate the planet feedIntegrate the announcements feedIntegrate the forum feedOrganise another interview or twoFinish my half finished articles that are steadily building as a backlog [...]
650 Days Later
Posted by Onote on Monday, October 29, 2007
No, it's not another diabolical sequel... it's the number of days since the last major Freeciv release until yesterday when Freeciv 2.1 went gold.People round on Freeciv for being unoriginal, but for me it fixes most of the problems with one of the greatest [...]
Yeah, yeah, been quiet, will change, etc
Posted by Onote on Sunday, October 28, 2007
Some people can organise themselves really well and accomplish everything they want to each day. Sadly that's not me!However now my girlfriend is away for 2 months which means I have a lot of extra time. ;-)OpenCityAnyhow, [...]
Galaxy Mage Redux
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Just as I was about to start lamenting the loss of a promising game, somebody steps up with a call to arms to resurrect development efforts.Galaxy Mage Redux (placeholder site) will continue where the original Galaxy Mage team left off. They need pythoners [...]
Freeciv 2.1rc1
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Freeciv 2.1rc1 is now available for download. I haven't yet played it but at first glance there's no 'save/load dialog implemented' in the SDL client part of the news announcements - which means, well, the SDL version is still incomplete. Also, at [...]
SilverTree and FIFEngine
Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 11, 2007
Two big releases in the last 48 hours - SilverTree 0.2, the RPG by Wesnoth developers, and FIFEngine that comes with a CC-by-SA licensed techdemo.Starting with SilverTree, the main gameplay aspects have all now been implemented: [...]
UFO:AI pre2.2 Review
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Want to know what's worse than a dog breaking wind? 2 dogs doing so... the Free Gamer hounds are gassing the place and making it very difficult to... oh god... no... not again! ARGH!I will try my best not to faint but [...]
Game Announcements Now Onine
Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 4, 2007
There is now a Game Announcements section on the forum. Anonymous posting is allowed (but moderated) and any form of FOSS game news is welcome. The idea being is that if you want to publicize a game in any way, post the update there. New versions, [...]
Scourge-erific
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Time flies when you're forgetting to do things, like update this blog. Damn, I make a post, have a nap, get distracted, and 6 days later I remember I was supposed to be posting again. I have umpteen drafts of half-finished [...]
Ultra Fickle Overtones
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 27, 2007
UFO:AIThere's beta installers for Linux and Windows for the popular open source game UFO:AI. The changelog for version 2.2 is impressive. The download link is a bit hard to get to - a ploy to stop too many players mistakenly [...]
Return of the Jedi Gamer
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 26, 2007
WWWWhaaaat?! 3 days since I last posted? Disgraceful.Oh well, trying and make this one interesting I guess! ;-)Blood FrontierBlood Frontier, a single player FPS using the Sauerbraten engine, has seen it's first alpha release [...]
Extreme Tux Racer
Posted by Onote on Saturday, September 22, 2007
Extreme Tux RacerThe team over at Extreme Tux Racer - the latest fork to take on the Tux Racer continuation mantle - have made their inaugral release. It's still a bedding-in period with no real major updates other than [...]
FreeCol update
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 20, 2007
FreeColA game update of interest (not been many lately) - FreeCol 0.7.2. Not too much else of interest going on. A few months ago I would have spent some time digging up unusual games or extra development information. [...]
Not Dead
Posted by Onote on Saturday, September 15, 2007
Nope, I'm not dead, just caught up in doing real work so time has been at a premium lately.Eat the WhistleAlso not dead is arcade football game Eat the Whistle. They have migrated to SVN as they build up to a new release. [...]
Briskly Brief
Posted by Onote on Monday, September 10, 2007
I'm really quite strapped for time right now so again this is brief.Stargus, the Stratagus-based project to get native Starcraft on Linux, is close to release. If the screenshots are anything to go by then Stargus will be pretty playable with this release.The [...]
Nuxified and Cluenet FOSS Game Tournament
Posted by Onote on Sunday, September 9, 2007
The forums are NOT down, they are still up here:http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/I'm moving admin of the freegamedev.net domain over to tuxfamily.org so it can be more useful than a simple redirect. [watch this space!]On top of that, if your Free Software [...]
Fill This Space
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 6, 2007
Hrm... *eyes shift left then right* ...something's wrong - I don't know what to write about.I could start with that ATI/AMD releasing ATI GPU specs and committing to helping out the open source drivers, but everybody else is doing that and to be honest [...]
How Original
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I really shouldn't be posting right now because I have a million more important things to do but I love you guys so...There's a preview version of Vega Strike 0.5.0 up for download for Intel Mac users. The VS devs need some feedback on most notably [...]
I'm baaaaaaaaack!
Posted by Onote on Monday, September 3, 2007
Whenever I have an extended FG absence (nearly 4 days this time!) it always makes me feel like shouting "I'm back" in the style of that guy from Independence Day. Maybe in a past life I had my dignity taken away from me [...]
Common Media Project and loads more
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 31, 2007
The first major community effort is coming out of the FreeGameDev community. It has been identified that the major weakness in creating quality looking Free games is the lack of Free art - either hard to find or just non-existent. [...]