Iris2There's quite a few updates that have not caught the public eye in the last few days:Freeciv 2.1.3 is a maintenance release with mainly bug fixesFreeCol 0.7.3 which includes new map and tutorial features (announcement)Glest [...]
Mega Games Bumper Post
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Well, I was fighting with myself not to post twice in a single day, but I have so much good stuff to post and the last post was simply a rant so it's OK!Topically, Extreme Tux Racer 0.4 has been released, bringing better [...]
A Rant About Games Lists
Posted by Onote
Don't bother reading this if you want anything informative. It's a rant.It's been a while since I had the lists on the blog, and they will return one day. Not least because I'm fed up of seeing list after list after list of ~7-20 open source games [...]
The early bird
Posted by Onote on Sunday, January 27, 2008
The early bird has to wait for the worm. And when he wanders off a bit bored, he gets back to find some other bird has poached the worm and his morning was fruitless. So, there you have it, you may as well lie in.There's an update to Battle for Antargis, [...]
Saucey
Posted by Onote on Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sauce the Game is a new video review effort for open source games. His first review was of Tremulous, obviously a favourite game of his. It'll be interesting to see where this goes, good luck to him.FreeOrion 0.3-rc7 was [...]
Singing in the rain
Posted by Onote on Thursday, January 24, 2008
Ok, ok, I know, I've been a bit rubbish lately. I'm struggling with the same problems that afflict many, many Free Software developers. Firstly I over-committed myself and the blog is lower priority than the various Free Software projects I should [...]
UFO:AI vs Apricot vs Glest vs... crikey
Posted by Onote on Monday, January 14, 2008
Quite a lot to cover, simply because there's a lot of small items that have backed up in my little "FG updates" list which I've been waiting to pool together.Firstly, the "big" news in that UFO:AI 2.2 got released. There's [...]
Four New Free Games
Posted by Onote on Saturday, January 12, 2008
Of course, when I say new, I mean new to me. New to me means, generally, a bit off the radar in the Free Software game community. So, with the post title qualified, let's start...Top10 is a realistic kart racing game for Windows and Linux. It reminds [...]
SimCity open sourced for One Laptop per Child
Posted by Onote on Thursday, January 10, 2008
Remember me?SimCity, open source. The news is nearly a year old, but now it has been released and you can try to compile it. Download the source or get it via git: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/micropolis-activity. [...]
Happy Gnu Year
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Well, well, it's 2008. Happy birthday time! Thanks to Qubodup for posting, and I'm sure he'll be doing so regularly this year.I'll just catch up with a few of the other game releases over the festive period that snook [...]
Updates, updates, updates... woha!
Posted by Onote on Monday, January 7, 2008
Just a tiny snack this time!One of the Christmas presents this year was Battle Tanks Xmas Edition. It introduces more interactivity (very GTA-like stuff) and a lot of fixes.No kidding, this is the biggest update we've ever [...]
Making sounds, building models, playing games
Posted by Onote on Saturday, January 5, 2008
Hi there, I'm new here but let's get straight to the point.sfxrWhile browsing through the Ludum Dare contest's blog, I found a nifty little tool which generates 8-bitish sfx, without me having to know anything about sound [...]