Somehow I'm missed yesterday... shit happens!My favourite RPG project Scourge now comes with outdoor areas which look rather promising. The progress on this project has been relentless which I really enjoy seeing. All it needs is some modellers to [...]
Some Might Say
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Want to simulate running your own college or university? You can. And it's open source. I post this purely out of amazement that somebody would program such a "game".Perhaps a more relevant simulation game is, er, running [...]
Damnation of Gods Damnation of Gods is
Posted by Onote on Monday, May 28, 2007
Haha, forgot to give the post a title so Blogger gave it this interesting one instead!Damnation of the GodsDamnation of the Gods is a project to make a game similar to Dungeon Master and the Eye of the Beholder series. [...]
A Bit About Me
Posted by Onote on Friday, May 25, 2007
How wonderfully ironic that on the 1st anniversary of the inception of Free Gamer, I forgot to actually post. Lack of time and focus on work robbed me of the time required to bring you the usual high quality rambling.Another thing that seems forgotten [...]
By the Kilo
Posted by Onote on Thursday, May 24, 2007
Over on the Ubuntu forums, I came across a post looking for whelp with a new game - Project Kilo is an ambitious new project to create a commercial grade RPG.ArkhartNow, often I see people talk about how they want to create [...]
Irrlamb
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Woah a nice new Free game!Irrlamb is described by it's developer(s) as "a 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay." It looks really awesome. Check out the gameplay video. Think Marble Madness and add lots of fun extra [...]
Darsana
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
There's a new Ultimate Stunts release, 0.7.1, which adds a few nifty features and fixes a few commonly reported bugs. This open ended driving game continues it's history of steady development, something I like to see in [...]
Night of the Living Unofficial Builds
Posted by Onote on Monday, May 21, 2007
Unofficial builds are much like zombies, who rise out of the dirt to seek out human flesh and consume it. Only unofficial builds usually come from the community and don't always kill the black dude and the crazy but not-so-cute [...]
Announcing Fortress
Posted by Onote on Sunday, May 20, 2007
Well it seems this blog and the Free Gamer forums combination have had their first interesting side effect!By wittering about Castles, I inspired forum member gilead to call for volunteers to forge a Castles inspired game! Currently it's in the brainstorming [...]
Spacetastic
Posted by Onote on Saturday, May 19, 2007
There's an interview with Ryan Gordon - more well known as icculus - over at Linux Games. I spotted the link over on Linux Gaming World. Whilst he is more associated with commercial "open source" titles [quoted because they usually are not free games, [...]
SoulFu now open source
Posted by Onote on Friday, May 18, 2007
The author of SoulFu now provides the source with the installer. Download the latest version (Windows only) and install it and there is the source code contained in the installation. That gives me hope of a future version of the game for Linux. :-)The [...]
More Mojo!
Posted by Onote on Thursday, May 17, 2007
I feel my Free Gamer mojo returning. Awesome! :-)These days some Free games are really, really impressive. For any disbelievers were have youtube to help showcase some of the best the Free Software gaming community has to offer.TA:Spring is increasingly [...]
Warsow 0.3
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Just when I feared I was losing my blogging Mojo, a few tips from readers has put me back on the path to righteousness.First tip - Warsow 0.3 is now ready! The team behind this acrobatic FPS deathmatch game had a few problems getting it out of the door [...]
Normal Service Resumed
Posted by Onote on Monday, May 14, 2007
Oh dear... lack of sleep, sobriety, and no Internet at a foreign location stole away my plans for Free Gamer blogging over the weekend. Anyway, normal service is now being resumed. :-)The Outer Space client got an update. I always knew about this free-to-play [...]
Naked, Male, and Loving It
Posted by Onote on Thursday, May 10, 2007
I sit here with a smile on my face, not because I'm really really good looking [although I am] and not because I have to leave for a 5 day trip in 30 minutes and have yet to pack [although I do] but because I reckon this [...]
The Post With No Name
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The other day I came across Battleship 88. Assuming it was freeware, being Windows only, I didn't mention it but did download it. Given the lack of a source code download on the website, I was a bit surprised at being [...]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, May 8, 2007
I was tempted, out of laziness, to say I had nothing to talk about... but that's just not true. :-DDaimoninThe guys over at the Daimonin project have been making noises with another pre-release. Daimonin is an open source [...]
Tutorials
Posted by Onote on Monday, May 7, 2007
It is commonly known that one of the major problems with volunteer game projects is lack of man power, which usually means that a few aspects that you come to expect in commercial titles tend to be neglected in Free games.One such aspect is tutorials. [...]
Day of the 0.9x
Posted by Onote on Saturday, May 5, 2007
Blob Wars: Blob and Conquer 0.90 is out! A 3D follow up to the 2D platformer Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid, Blob and Conquer looks like it is shaping up nicely from the gameplay videos on the website.It makes me happy to see Snowballz 0.9 released. This [...]
Fallout 3 Tech Demo released to Public Domain
Posted by Onote on Friday, May 4, 2007
Well I guess the big scoop is that the Van Buren aka Fallout 3 tech demo has been released to the public domain so is now Free Software. I wonder if the community will pick it up and make it work properly - apparently it is quite far away from being [...]
Allacrost and Free Allegiance
Posted by Onote
Hero of AllacrostThere's some new screenshots over at the Hero of Allacrost project. It is looking really nice these days and they have come a long way. They are looking for people to help test out their next release so [...]
FreeTrain and Lots of Games
Posted by Onote on Thursday, May 3, 2007
I absolutely have to start with FreeTrain. The first release of the translated game is now available. It is currently Windows only (tied to DirectX) and needs .NET but the medium term goal is to port FreeTrain to SDL and [...]
Free Gamer Forums and Awards 2007
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
As you probably don't know, May 25th is the 1st birthday of Free Gamer. :-DTo signify this momentus occasion, and because I've always wanted to do this, I'm going to run the first official Free Gamer awards!The purpose of the awards is to not only recognise [...]
Scourge and SoulFu
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Scourge 0.18 (download) has been released. :-)If you don't know, Scourge is a 3D RPG game inspired by top-down old school isometric-ish games e.g. Exult. Scourge tries to blend classic gameplay with modern graphics. It [...]