Blood and Iron menuBlood and Iron "is a dark low fantasy tactical RPG where you attempt to lead a mercenary company to fame and fortune." This sounds like a Mount & Blade demake [EDIT] but it's not!Dark low fantasy [...]
Remembering and discovering some adventure and role playing games
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Happy Aðfangadagskvöld!
Posted by Onote on Friday, December 24, 2010
Three more days, 688 more US Dollars pledged to the Portrait Marathon and we get art video tutorials (so spread a little word, why don'tcha? ;) ):Fantasy Portrait Marathon pledge progressOGA's presentsThere has been a *LOT* [...]
News Avalanche!
Posted by Onote on Thursday, December 23, 2010
Zero-K:Zero-K is the reboot of Spring RTS game Complete Annihilation, with aims to distance itself from the TA IP that has plagued Spring games, and just generally be better in every way :) It comes with a revamped UI, [...]
An early Xmas?
Posted by Onote on Monday, December 20, 2010
Not very X-mas like at my current place of residence, but there are just so many good things coming to the FreeGamer enthusiast right now! But I am short on time and on a crappy internet connection... so only text for you guys tonight :p So, as a follow [...]
From Open to Free, visual programming, new SumWars RPG and Berlin game dev summoning
Posted by Onote on Thursday, December 16, 2010
FLARE logoOSARE is now FLARE. From an OGA tread:I sent an email to Richard Stallman asking if he's interested in supporting Justin Nichol's Creative Commons Fantasy Portrait Project.He pointed out that the difference between [...]
Lithosphere - awesome visual procedural 3d terrain map generator with shaders
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Forget my last post about terrain generators! I'm just going to let the screen/video talk for themselves.Lithosphere is a GPU driven terrain generator. It allows you to create and export material textures and heightmaps [...]
Portrait Marathon got $1500, could use $1500 more :)
Posted by Onote on Monday, December 13, 2010
The fantasy portrait marathon reached first base. I just wanted to let you know. Remember, that if it reaches $3000 ($9000!!!/3), we will get a massive instructional vid [...]
Fantasy Portrait Marathon Update and Reddit Game Jam #4 in a few hours!
Posted by Onote on Friday, December 10, 2010
Justin added new possible targets to his freely-licensed fantasy portraits project for OSARE and OGA:$1500by December 28th30 portraits$2000by December 28th35 portraits$3000by December 28th35 portraits + a full length instructional [...]
Contributing to FPSs, RPGs and other games by sharing thoughts and spreading words
Posted by Onote on Thursday, December 9, 2010
I* joined PARPG to work on game interaction (controls and GUI). This decision was made after taking a look at some projects and talking with their members about what tasks are available. Now I want to tell you about the 'open source jobs' available out [...]
Quoting releases: Bitfighter, Love2d, OpenClonk
Posted by Onote on Sunday, December 5, 2010
BitfighterThere's a new version of the retro-style multiplayer top-down action game Bitfighter and a well-readable changelog:This version features new Soccer rules, and a verified user name system protected by your forums [...]
Freely Licensed Fantasy Portraits Financing!
Posted by Onote on Saturday, December 4, 2010
The styleOpen-art artist Justin Nichol intends to create 30 freely licensed portraits (or more) in the style you see above. I support his Fantasy Portrait Marathon for 3 purposes:Allow an open source enthusiast artist to [...]
M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous Shooter
Posted by Onote on Saturday, November 27, 2010
Can a game that has "ridiculous" in the title be bad? No. It can not!M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous ShooterEven though I'm no fan of the multiplayer (zero-)gravity-shooter genre, I enjoy playing M.A.R.S., which features AI enemies [...]
A little bit of everything
Posted by Onote
Long time no see!Before you look at the pictures: I can only recommend following the FGD Game Planet and Dev Planet. That is all ;).GamesCONSCONS is a NOOB FRIENDLY!!! roguelike written in Lisp. It is 'friendly' because [...]
Well, screw this...
Posted by Onote on Friday, November 19, 2010
We need contributors, contributors, contributors to misquote a famous internet meme ;)So if you want to be a new author writing wacky (or wicked) articles here on FreeGamer, contact us! Don't let this Blog die! And hey it's a good excuse to be lazy and [...]
Atonement (or Goat's Monthly Post)
Posted by Onote on Monday, October 25, 2010
Julius' endless poking has sent me over the cliff of post-guilt, fortunately, lots of projects have been jumping up and down for attention of late, so I have quite a bit of content to redeem myself with. RPGsOSAREOSARE [...]
A few interesting things
Posted by Onote on Thursday, October 14, 2010
Hello again from the dark side of the moon (at least it's equally remote ;) ).Today I have some assorted news of projects previously featured and one new one. Lets start with the latter:ArcanumAlive or OpenArcanum is a engine [...]
An update out of nowhere!
Posted by Onote on Saturday, October 9, 2010
Quite literally, as I am posting this via a satellite connection from the other side of the world ;) But if those lazy co-authors spend all their time playing games instead of bringing you the latest FreeGaming news, then [...]
Energy Tycoon
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Rejoice! Now you can become the CEO of a multinational evil energy empire on your home PC. Build as many nuclear power plants as you always wished, destroy the world's climate with coal electrification and make a big advertisement campaign to greenwash [...]
Neotron Games: Treasure Trove of 2D Games
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Neotron GamesThese guys have compiled quite a selection of quality, complete games. Actually, to such an extent, one could say that they are one of the most prolific open source game devs out there, even if not all of their [...]
Steel Storm - Indie AND open-source
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wait... isn't this FreeGamer? Why do you have a commercial game on your blog about free games?Well... because it is free, just not as in beer ;) Okok, the first episode is even free as in beer :p What am I talking about? Steel Storm, an indie arcade [...]
Galactic Vice RTS
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Hot news for today! A project unknown to me so far just released its first alpha of their upcoming open-source RTS Galactic Vice. It's still at a very early phase, and they are looking for contributors, but as you can see in this video (action starts [...]
A bunch of updates
Posted by Onote on Monday, September 6, 2010
Very creative headline, I know... but news of various games were piling up in my "should post about it on FreeGamer" link-list... yet I never really felt like actually writing an article about. So some of it might be old [...]
Two FOSS gems
Posted by Onote on Thursday, September 2, 2010
Ok today I have updates for two real FOSS gems. First of all the long promised update on ZeroBallistics: the former indi, now FOSS tank shooter. A few weeks ago thy made all the game (including even .blend model source files!) available under the GPLv2 [...]
Some more (L)GPL strategy game love
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Ok, quick update before too much dust gathers around here ;)Just yesterday I stumbled upon this gem of a strategy game over at LGDB:They call that simple bot???Its name is Quantum, as some of you might have guessed it is [...]
O A.D. Alpha 1 Argonaut
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 16, 2010
Fresh from our forums come the news that the first playable (multi-player only) alpha of O A.D. has been released!0 A.D. Alpha 1 videoIt features "aggressive units that attack enemies on sight, lifelike animals that escape danger, two new maps, in-game [...]
RTCW and ET open-sourced
Posted by Onote on Sunday, August 15, 2010
You probably heard it before elsewhere, but I was waiting for some actual developments to occur instead of making yet another "yay! source release!!!" blog entry ;)Anyways... the kind people over at id software have decided [...]
Quake2 engine day ;)
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Ok, today I have quite a lot of stuff, and its all Quake2 related :p Believe it or not Quake2 is alive and kicking... and its engine is featuring some of the very best open-source games!For those who might have missed it: [...]
Some Free, Open Source Puzzle Games
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 9, 2010
FlipoutCan you imagine what a mix between a Pin-Ball machine, a physics simulator and a breakout clone would look like? Well your wildest dreams have been answered! Check this out:FlipoutThe game Flipout combines all this, [...]