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 [...]