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. [...]
Oh no more updates
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The latest Sauerbraten release is now available from getdeb, and since I have a new spiffy laptop I thought I'd give it a try. The RPG levels are pretty awesome to look at - now maybe I'm not quite up to date on the latest [...]
Freeciv 2.1beta6 Grips
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Since I'm a bit tight on time today I'm just going to post a few gripes I have with Freeciv 2.1beta6. Don't get me wrong, I think this is shaping up to be a really, really nice game, but the SDL interface has some very annoying usability issues to address.If [...]
Revival of the fittest - sourcing art
Posted by Onote on Sunday, August 26, 2007
Pingus 0.7.0 is available for download. With revival work complete, Pingus now uses SDL and comes with lovel anti-aliased fonts. There's no new levels yet but with development seemingly back on track hopefully the level editor will return and some [...]
Freeciv 2.1beta6 Now Out!
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 23, 2007
A new beta of the upcoming Freeciv 2.1 has been released. The last major beta - beta4 - was nearly 5 months ago. There was a beta5 (uploaded a few days ago) but it was not announced due to some serious bugs. Anyway, beta6 is now available from the [...]
Smashing
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Cannon SmashLast night I downloaded and played Cannon Smash. I was quite impressed - the ball movement is good, the gameplay fast and fluid. The graphics, although quite simple, are quite nice as well when in motion.The [...]
Free this free that O_o
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Linux users can now get their hands on the latest version of FreeOrion, the turn-based space stategy project inspired by Master of Orion games, without having to compile it themselves. See this thread for details. It worked well for me, although the [...]
New Sauerbraten Release
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 20, 2007
Sauerbraten has a new release with 2007-08-19 "Summer Edition". There's tons of new small features although nothing really stands out - but perhaps that's me just being ignorant of some jargon in the changelog. What does [...]
79 - my birth year and something else
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 17, 2007
Air CarrierThe rather sumptious looking Air Carrier project - a 3D aerial combat game written in Java - has put up an install guide. Basically you need to get it from CVS at the moment and run it from Eclipse. So, if you [...]
Releases on the Horizon
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 16, 2007
Well what would you know. There actually was plenty happening yesterday just I wasn't looking in the right places...The assualt course racing game Sturmbahnfahrer has been renamed for reasons of political correctness. [...]
Bored Gamer
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 15, 2007
There's very little of note happening. I should use the opportunity to work on some more interesting content for Free Gamer (fixed lists? awards? etc) but instead I have a new laptop (shiney!) and so will spend time fiddling with it.Want to know what [...]
Bos Wars and Egoboo
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 13, 2007
There's a new Bos Wars release - version 2.4 comes with a new resource system and a new tutorial (presumably to reflect the new resource system). These days Bos Wars is the flagship game using Stratagus, the 2D isometric RTS engine that powers Wargus [...]
Testing Testing Testing
Posted by Onote on Saturday, August 11, 2007
200 posts to this blog now. :-)PingusPingus revival efforts are looking for bug testers. That means we can expect a new Pingus release soon, and even sooner if you head over there and help test it.Also looking for testers [...]
www.freegamedev.net
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 10, 2007
I registered the domain name www.freegamedev.net yesterday. Initially it will just point to the Free Gamer forums, but I want to evolve that into a proper Free Software game development community with useful features e.g.:announce.freegamedev.net [...]
Ultimate Stunts
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Did you miss me? ... Tough luck, I'm back! ;-)Ultimate Stunts EditorUltimate Stunts 0.7.2 is out with an improved and integrated track editor, a new car, and a few other minor improvements. I like this project, even if [...]
SoulFu 1.5 "Niceware"
Posted by Onote on Sunday, August 5, 2007
There's a new release of SoulFu. Whilst the source still comes under a funny license that many would not consider true open source, I believe any restrictions previously placed in the game are now removed. Downloads are up for Linux, Mac OS X, and [...]
More on CSPop
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 2, 2007
A while ago I mentioned cspop, a 3D populus clone. Whilst the game itself hasn't yet gotten a website - the author is waiting until it's playable before really marketing it - there has been progress:CSPopWork is still going [...]
Peragro Tempus
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 1, 2007
With the time I've spent sorting out the site I've had less time to stay in touch with general open source game developments, so slow news at the moment.The author of Passenger and Nuclear Graveyard seems to be making headway [...]