An update so quickly? Behold the Free Gamer world is coming to an end. :pSo, we mentioned some promising RTS games in the last update. OK, I forgot to mention Spring1944, but I am also a bit reluctant to mention Spring and [...]
FOSS RTS games
Posted by Onote on Monday, December 28, 2009
Hey FreeGamers!I know, news are a bit slow here lately, but all three of us are a bit busy with real-life issues, I guess. So if you are interested in becoming a contributor to this blog drop us a line in the forum!We have [...]
News? Yep news!
Posted by Onote on Sunday, December 6, 2009
A bit slow in the world of FOSS gaming lately, and all the forum trouble here at FreeGamer/FreeGameDev certainly didn't help.But with the help of Ghoul and qudobup there is now a new and advanced forum (well it still needs a nice non-standard style, [...]
Forum un-down #6
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A poll/discussion was started to talk about how to handle the forum situation. Please add your two cents to the poll/discussion or comment on this blog post. [...]
Quality family entertainment...
Posted by Onote on Sunday, November 8, 2009
So what's up in the Free Gamer world?Hot news is that the project formerly called Portalized (featured a long time ago on FreeGamer) is now really open-source and renamed Pseudoform! It's still more of a tech-demo, but check this video out: Pseudoform [...]
Blender Game Competition 2010
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Dear diary...ermm readers *hust*... this is my first post on this blog so please be gentle with me! I am sort of helping out now and then since qudobup is busy with other stuff. Beeing a forum regular I had to help out of [...]
Beep. Bop. Updates. Racer. Critterding. PARPG. OGA.
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sorry.Attempts to rescue old forum files will go on until November 9, 2009, I will update you on that date or earlier. For now, there's a replacement of the FGD planet (let us know if blogs are missing)racerI made two videos [...]
Forum un-down #5
Posted by Onote on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Short version: feel free & safe to use the Forum again. The old posts might or might not be added to the posts we post from now on later.Longer version: there is still hope that the files (and posts) will be restored but of course no guarantee. Having [...]
Forum down #4
Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 8, 2009
8 Oct, UTC+1:22:27 < ghouly> freegamedev wiki backup restored : http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/freegamedev/wiki22:28 < dmj728> ghouly...are the message bodies back?22:28 < ghouly> not yet, we'll work on that this weekendPS: For [...]
Forum down #3
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, October 6, 2009
So a 'backup' forum is free for use again, while we wait for filesystem recovery results (the download of the fs has finished so 'repairs' begin now)..Meanwhile jClassicRPG created a new forum. Make your choice [...]
Forum down #2
Posted by Onote on Monday, October 5, 2009
Permission to panic given.We didn't lose the databse, but it might be that we lost the files. Unfortunately the messages of the forum are saved as files. Check this out (but don't post) to see how a 'full' forum without messages looks like.So this is [...]
Forum down
Posted by Onote on Sunday, October 4, 2009
Due to a filesystem error (apparently) the FreeGameDev forum is down. The post data (MySQL table) is safe and will be likely restored in a day or two. It's not clear yet if file attachments can be restored. We will keep you updated.You can use this phpBB [...]
Open source 3D RPG updates
Posted by Onote on Sunday, September 27, 2009
There has been some activity in the most prominent free (as in freedom) software 3D role-playing games DungeonHack, jClassicRPG and Radakan.DungeonHackGreen, water and village in DungeonHack [more]DungeonHack (DH) 0.10 has [...]
NAEV 0.4.0 review
Posted by Onote on Friday, September 18, 2009
NAEV Items [more shots]NAEV 0.4.0 is out, a game of the space trading and combat simulator genre, inspired by the non-free Escape Velocity. Win32/lin32/lin64/mac binaries are available here.The new version has parts of the [...]
OpenMW interview with Nicolay Korslund
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Early OpenMW GUI implementationOpenMW is a re-implementation of the (non-free) TES3 Morrowind game engine, written in the D programming language. The engine makes use of OGRE and other open source libraries, features an [...]
Pink Pony 1.2.1
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Pink Pony 1.2.1I wanted to write about Pink Pony for a long time, but never came around to it. It's a Tron-like racing game and features hearts, ponies (also ai-controlled ones), graphic shaders and split-screen multiplayer [...]
Just a small puzzle game update: Zaz 0.2.6
Posted by Onote on Saturday, August 22, 2009
Zaz 0.2.6Zaz is a puzzle game, a 'clonespiration' of Zuma, one of PopCap's notorious proprietary (casual) games. You are confronted with a stream of differently colored balls and have to put three of the same type next to [...]
Snippets and whippets
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 17, 2009
Complete AnnihilationApparently the Spring mod Complete Annihilation is rather good, although it's about to be renamed and not quite fully free of its ties to the original Total Annihilation content. The goal is to be totally [...]
An example of why a license matters
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 10, 2009
SimutransOpenTTD OpenGFXWhy is OpenTTD now in Fedora 10/11 but Simutrans is not? The former has been only playable with Free media since some time this year - and the media is still incomplete - whereas the latter has been [...]
Update 379
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 7, 2009
Todays date is 07/08/09 if you're not a silly yank (m/d/y wha'?) and it made me think about how long the blog has been going. 379 posts... quite a lot! It's been a while since I started doing this blog. Who knows how [...]
Clonk open sourced and Free Gamer ceil(foss games)
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 4, 2009
ClonkClonk got open sourced! Welcome OpenClonk. Clonky! It seems to be the indie game fashion at the moment what with 0AD and all. What is Clonk?Clonk is a multiplayer-action-tactic-skill game. It is often referred to [...]
Interview: Stephen Carlyle-Smith aka Me_Programmer
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, July 28, 2009
In the second Free Gamer interview - over 2 years since the first with grumbel - serial Free game developer Steven Carlyle-Smith (UK) aka Me_Programmer Games aka Steve16384 was kind enough to take the time to reply in detail [...]