Open FootballI'm really excited this morning. Go on, ask me why! Well, since you asked :-) it's because I came across a new football game project... Open Football. Ok, it's only available from SVN, the game is far from [...]
Release Early, Release Often
Posted by Onote on Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wormux<I had a go at Wormux last night. It's a Worms clone, closest to Worms II. I'm impressed, this is a well done game although it lacks is AI. Once it has AI, it will be one of those awesome games that everybody [...]
Strawberries & Cream
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I had these grand plans for today, but instead I slept through two alarms and got to work 2 hours late, and forgot what my plans were. *groan*Eat the WhistleActionCubeAnyhow, onto relevant matters, that previously-imminent [...]
Go With The Flow
Posted by Onote on Monday, March 26, 2007
Firstly a quick update on FreeTrain. The main game has now been translated, so should compile and run on Windows. At the moment, though, there are a few things to be addressed before it can be officially released and also [...]
Oh My Word
Posted by Onote on Friday, March 23, 2007
I didn't have an opportunity to sleep last night so inaccuracy, incompleteness, general rubbishness, etc, to be expected. ;-)FG has come a long way since it started. I got sortable tables working yesterday for the main [...]
Egoboo vs FreeTrain vs VDrift
Posted by Onote on Thursday, March 22, 2007
Egoboo 2.3.6 is released! This is a major development in what was a dead game. Egoboo used to be a darling of open source gaming, so I'm hopeful it will rise like a phoenix and restore it's reputation.Somebody has joined [...]
Slowly Does It
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Ok, I made a few minor improvements... it'll take a while to get this right. My advice; do not hold your breath. You'll die! :'(Shall I be on-topic for a change with a few game mentions? Ok.I'll start with Those Funny Funguloids! This 3D "mushroom [...]
Roadbumps...
Posted by Onote
Ok I had a bad weekend and FG dropped down the priority list something rotten. Just when I needed spare time I had it all robbed by some annoying RL incidents. Normal service will resume probably next week now. Sorry! :-(The games list is available [...]
Imminent Redesign
Posted by Onote on Friday, March 16, 2007
[UPDATE]Doing this redesign meant I had to upgrade the blogger template. As I feared I could not just go for the redesign behind-the-scenes. I had to upgrade the template to get the new blogger structure stuff. So no [...]
Can You Say Revival
Posted by Onote on Thursday, March 15, 2007
The Widelands team put out a release candidate for their next release, Widelands build10, of their Settlers II inspired game. Check it out!EgobooNow who remembers Egoboo? Or the continuation effort that fizzled out? You [...]
Gaming Goodness... Sorta
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I'll start with a couple of interesting freeware titles...A while ago I came across (but forgot to mention) Hidden and Dangerous which has been released as abandonware by it's commercial developers Illusion Softworks. Linux [...]
Utilizing The Community
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Before I get onto my main topic for today, I'll note that Kimboot 1.00 got released today. You swing a ball and chain around and bloodily annihilate stick men. Lots of violent fun without being too gross. :-)I spoke to HellcatV today. For those who [...]
Slow Weekend?
Posted by Onote on Monday, March 12, 2007
Well not much really to talk about. I get back online after the weekend to see nothing newsworthy so today I will just talk about a few FOSS things related to moi.Although first, budding FOSS artists, check out this rather awesome animal print patterns [...]
Another Populus Remake
Posted by Onote on Friday, March 9, 2007
cspopI wanted to mention it yesterday but held off... check out this post in the happy penguin forums effectively announcing a 3D RTS inspired by populus! Currently there is only an SVN repo and no official website but [...]
Return of Glest?
Posted by Onote on Thursday, March 8, 2007
Another game whose development appeared to have stagnated was Glest. This 3D RTS was widely acclaimed as a leading open source game when it came out, with high quality graphics and solid gameplay. Although it lacked features, it seemed like the ideal [...]
Marching Onwards
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Bygfoot Football Manager development has been resumed. *Cheers!* The latest unstable release is 2.1.1 and contains updates to the UI, the addition of a "luck" factor to make long term success more challenging, and new country definitions.Bygfoot is [...]