Brain Workshop 4.1, Epoch and an 'Open Source' vaporware console

Posted by Onote on Sunday, October 26, 2008

Release 4.1 of Brain Workshop introduces some GUI tweaks and a new sound theme (piano notes instead of spoken letters). I finally gave it a try and was able to record sound via recordmydesktop with the help of this config guide.The rules of the game [...]
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Names, Games, and 150k Wardrobes

Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 23, 2008

Unnamed GameThis as-yet-unnamed side scrolling game project looks awesome. It's open source, art and all, up on Sourceforge in SVN. You can see how beautiful it looks. I guess somebody (what, me?) should encourage them [...]
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Eying Eisenstern And Eye Candy

Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I had a few links collecting that I wanted to get off my chest. Nothing is worse than having a folder full of old links that would have been interesting, but are now out of date. That's a lie, I accidentally drank off-milk [...]
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Open Source Survives Financial Meltdown

Posted by Onote on Saturday, October 11, 2008

There's a few juicy updates to several great Free Software game projects over the last few days. I'm feeling too lazy to grab screenshots though. You'll just have to peruse yourself if you find something interesting.We'll start with TA:Spring 0.77b3 [...]
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Introducing: Quake2World

Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Quake2World skeleton pointing grenade launcher at youRecently, I became friends with an open source first-person shooter: Quake2World (q2w). As the name indicates, it uses an idTech2-based engine and currently aims to have [...]
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jClassicRPG's and Howitzer Skirmish's donation histories

Posted by Onote on Tuesday, October 7, 2008

While the the tank simulator game Howitzer Skirmish is 300 USD (222 EUR) away from being GPLed, jClassicRPG's developer is getting a donation-funded 42 USD ATi card to fix some ATi-specific problems.I made a pretty graphic [...]
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Hero of Allacrost 0.2.2, Teeworlds 0.4.3, GamePwned

Posted by Onote on Sunday, October 5, 2008

Toying with Hero of Allacrost 0.2.2's Editor(HD)Hero of Allacrost 0.2.2 has been released and now needs a new home! It is house-trained and can be picked up 24/7 from it's SourceForge shelter.One can now enter buildings [...]
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Lavirinto 3D 0.6.0, Balazar 3 0.1, OpenAnno 2008.1, Pandora 2008 ordering deadline

Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 2, 2008

Lavirinto 3D 0.6.0Lavirinto 3D brings Zen wisdom, Pipes and Pac-Man together. It's a 3D version of the game Zenji [video].The colorful levels and friendly music made me quite enjoy the stay and I even finished all campaigns. [...]
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OpenArena, CG Textures and BurningWell.Org

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OpenArena 0.8.0 recently got unreleased, because the project administrator decided that some included textures by TRaK were not legally GPL-licensed.Free as in freedom CG Textures? No. :(So why do the CG Textures-based textures [...]
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