Lee Vermeulen's brainchild Nexuiz is a fast-paced first-person shooter, better comparable to Unreal Tournament than to Quake, though based on latter's engine. Release 2.4 has been available for some hours now. Time to grab a copy and freaking play it. [...]
Bedtime
Posted by Onote on Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tired today. Sorry for lack of details.Daimonin (2D MMORPG) got a new website. Spiffy.Warsow 0.42. It's a fast multiplayer FPS.Ace video on Nexuiz, looks fancy FPS.There's an RC out for VDrift release 2008-02-23, the "next gen" car game. (I don't [...]
Develicious
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, February 26, 2008
SuperTuxKart 0.4rc1 has been released. It replaces the physics engine with bullet for collisions, and subsequently is far more fun to play. Some track improvements, a new character, better AI, music, and other features. [...]
Community Updates
Posted by Onote on Monday, February 25, 2008
Lots of activity amongst the FreeGameDev crowd. Qubodup has created an amazing new forum skin, so participating in the forums has never been a more pleasant experience than it is now, and he's still tweaking away. A new [...]
The Best Way To Play
Posted by Onote on Friday, February 22, 2008
Here's a good tip on how to get extra performance in Linux. It's on the Ubuntu forums but is essentially an X.org trick.Battle for Wesnoth 1.4rc1 (aka 1.3.18) is out - good preview of what is close to becoming the next stable release.FreeOrion 0.3.8 [...]
Developing Games Takes Time
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Zero ProjektFIFE is starting to come of age. Although their tech-demo collaboration ended after a dispute between the two parties, Zero Project have continued their efforts and have settled on FIFE for their game project [...]
Glest 3.1 invaded by aliens
Posted by Onote on Monday, February 18, 2008
Glest: Alien InvasionGearhead2Chromium BSUHot on the heels of Glest 3.0 is... Glest 3.1! Great to see the rejuvenated development of a poster Free Software game. This version continues to add multiplayer features such [...]
Times of War
Posted by Onote on Sunday, February 17, 2008
Warzone 2100 2.1-beta1 is out, with plenty of new features (changelog). Internationalized, improved/additional AI, 64-bit support, in-game video options, and multi-turret support are the picks of the bunch."Additionally [...]
Tactics with lasers and lite space
Posted by Onote on Saturday, February 16, 2008
Laser Tactics is the new name for Nuclear Graveyard. It's a turn based 3D squad tactics game, originally a remake of Laser Squad in 3D that has since transcended the initial goal of being a remake. The author is fairly [...]
Be a Busy Bee
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Well... I have a big list of stuff to write about, so, I'll cheat.Ctrl+C, Ctrl+VGame updatesOpenFracas (http://www.openfracas.org/) from Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=692342)Oolite 1.70 development version (http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4060) [...]
Stop the press: Portalized - "open source Portal"
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Ok, this is the sh*t. Not only that, word has it, this is going to be open source. Of course, this is what some guy who reads some forum has emailed me, and I'm being completely sensational by posting it on an open source blog, but the youtubes are [...]
Games, Games, and Free Software
Posted by Onote on Saturday, February 9, 2008
GooniesF1 SpiritRoad FighterDaimoninA good open source platform game that never gets a mention is The Goonies: 20th Anniversary Edition. This game is a remake of the classic NES / Master System version by Konami. The same [...]
D2X-XL free media project
Posted by Onote on Monday, February 4, 2008
FIFE, the Fallout-like engine project, have made their first release of 2008, and put up a video of the tech demo that comes with the engine. Lots of new features, lots of progress, hopefully we'll see some exciting FIFE [...]