OvergodOvergod, an abstract shooter using Allegro, is a fast paced top down shooter. It's fun although pretty tough, and has a nice retro feel but with good modern graphics. It's one of those games you can pick up and [...]
Strategic Importance
Posted by Onote on Saturday, April 28, 2007
FreeSynd 0.2 is out! It's not yet mentioned on their site but you can get it from the project download page (Windows only, but 0.1 had a Linux version so hopefully it'll follow soon). I loved the original Syndicate (although [...]
Beats Of Rage
Posted by Onote
Funny how I have a quick moan about Beats of Rage yesterday only to find OpenBoR today. In fact I had mentioned OpenBoR before on this site but forgot plus these days they seem to be a little more organised. Saying that, borgeneration.com seems to [...]
Super Heroic Efforts
Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 26, 2007
If you want to help the next SuperTuxKart release then be sure to check out 0.3 alpha which has been uploaded. Expect bugs but once ironed out this should be a cool game again. :-)The lead developer of Heroes of Allacrost [...]
Vega Strike Release Due In Summer
Posted by Onote
At last, a Vega Strike update is coming in the summer. It's been long overdue. :-)The next Ultimate Stunts release is imminent. It won't bring much in the way of features but should keep things moving forward. I like [...]
Put Your Hands Up For Free Gamer
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
*Cheer* A Linux version of Those Funny Funguloids is being prepared. Stop by the OGRE forums if you fancy an early look although you will need to compile it yourself.*Cheer* The next release of Scourge is imminent - due [...]
Crystal Core Tech Demo
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, April 24, 2007
I know what I wanted to post about yesterday... the Crystal Core tech demo! This rather sexy looking FPS is designed to showcase Crystal Space 3d engine. Crystal Space used to be the open source 3d engine of choice in it's early days, but then OGRE [...]
Blue Mondays
Posted by Onote on Monday, April 23, 2007
Plasma PongWell, actually, if you're playing Plasma Pong your Monday is probably multi-coloured! What a cool looking variant on a classic game, eh? Shame it's only available for Windows & MacOS X at the moment but [...]
Don't Fret!
Posted by Onote on Friday, April 20, 2007
There's a Frets on Fire update. I swear that game has the coolest logo. New features for this guitar-meets-DDR game include wobbly effects for long notes, combo totals, and support for left-handed players, plus the usual bug fixes.You can now play [...]
Open Source Flight Combat
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Flying GunsThunder & LighteningglHorizonglHorizon 3D cockpitCombat Simulator ProjectDecopterHey, I'm up early - or in bed late. Anyway, I came across a few open source flight combat simulators last night and thought [...]
SST:LD
Posted by Onote
Somebody is taking the Glest engine and turning it into a game based on Starship Troopers, the bloodiest goriest movie ever to be certified as suitable for viewing by 15 year olds in the UK.StarShip Troopers:Last DefenseStarShip [...]
Lazy Gamer
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
TiredOpenCity 0.0.5 closing in (screenshot)FreeCol 0.6Sauerbraten 2007-04-13Lords A War - fork of FreeLordsUnofficial FreeLords upd [...]
Freespace2 Total Conversions
Posted by Onote on Sunday, April 15, 2007
Freespace 2 is a commercial 3D space action game, created by Volition inc, whose engine has been made available as Free Software.This has enabled several total conversions of the game, 3 in particular, to be made into standalone [...]
The Power Of Sauer
Posted by Onote on Friday, April 13, 2007
Anything is possibleSauer PlatformerSo yesterday I'm perusing the Sauerbraten forums and came across this wonderful new map [see right]. The creativity! :-)But, more seriously, check out the following screenshot of SauerMod, [...]
I Am A Passenger
Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 12, 2007
I'm in a rush today - back to proper Free Gamer business as usual next week - so just a quick one.The old school GTA games may be available as freeware, but purists will be happy to see Passenger, an open source game which shares many gameplay elements [...]
FreeTrain in English now runs
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
It's been nearly a year since I first posted up a request for volunteers to get FreeTrain (original Japanese homepage) up and running.Many thanks to Daniel Markstedt who has stepped up and not only translated the game but managed to get it running as [...]
Padman Roadmap and Urban Terror
Posted by Onote on Monday, April 9, 2007
In a brief follow up (time constraints) to the Q3 TCs post, there's some news on a couple projects.The guys behind the recently released World of Padman have talked about the future of the project whilst thanking people for the positive initial feedback:This [...]
Easter Blues
Posted by Onote
Not much happening really, then again I have been offline for X days.I'm in the process of inputting the Free Game list into OpenOffice.org Base (Access equivalent). Then I'll be able to do lots more fun things to the game lists, not to mention no more [...]
Interview: Ingo Ruhnke aka Grumbel
Posted by Onote on Friday, April 6, 2007
In the first of a new wave of Free Gamer content, Ingo Ruhnke aka Grumbel and one of the most prolific open source game developers around has kindly taken the time to do an interview.Please note that Ingo's first language is not English, and I've not [...]
Quake3 Total Conversions
Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 5, 2007
It's really great when a company like iD Software release their game engines under a Free license. It means all the hard work by modders (the vast majority of community game development goes into modding commercial games) can be made available to everybody [...]
Some Classic Game Remakes
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 4, 2007
I came across the Hardwar project the other day, a contemporary remake of the classic game. No visible progress but plenty of ambition and a cute website. We shall see if it gets anywhere.A remake that has made some good [...]
Beyond The Red Line
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Welcome to post number 100 on Free Gamer. Slowly I am finding out how to push blogger to it's limits. The list is starting to look much better, now that the layout is getting there. The tedious work of populating it with [...]
UFO:AI 2.1
Posted by Onote on Monday, April 2, 2007
UFO:AI 2.1 was released (changelog, download) yesterday.This is turning into an incredible game. It takes the best elements of the original UFO games and builds on them with contemporary technologies to produce what really has to be one of the leading [...]
My Favourite Day Of The Year
Posted by Onote on Sunday, April 1, 2007
Well, not really, I never enjoy reading rubbish people try to make up to be funny. Honestly, if I want a laugh, I'll go to a comedy store. Anyhow...World of Padman. 3D, Toy Story esque setting and freeware. It's a deathmatch [...]