In Shotgun Debugger, you play a hacker on the run from black-shades-agents and fight against armies of droids. Projectile and energy weapons serve your cause, the most original of which gets reflected by walls and can be [...]
Free as in F..Dragon History.. and cyberpunk
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Some of Dragon History's GPLv2-ed assetsYou might remember this video-heavy post about Dragon History, a comical fantasy adventure game for ScummVM. I wanted to inform you that the game art, including music, graphics and [...]
Penumbra engine open source (non-free 32bit library dependancy)
Posted by Onote on Saturday, May 15, 2010
Penumbra 1's engine now FOSS The engine of the best proprietary horror game in existence (Penumbra Overture) has been released under GPLv3, and some parts under even more liberal licenses. The engine features a physics interaction [...]
Of Summoning Wars and RakNet
Posted by Onote on Friday, May 14, 2010
When I found out that Summoning Wars, it in fact uses a freely licensed network library, I wanted to test it, but failed at compiling. Today, with fresh Subversion checkout, I succeeded and was surprised by a Diablo-rules-style [...]
Combing Github for Games
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, May 12, 2010
I am bored. SF.net doesn't produce many new foss game findings, so I say: "Let's try GitHub's search function!" Searching "game" quickly turned into "game -warcraft -framework [...]
Lugaru open source on GNU/Linux (64bit)
Posted by Onote
Lugaru was open sourced (the code, not the assets). Aquaria, Gish and Penumbra Overture are to follow in a time frame of three days. Here's the counter (top right).Lugaru is a 3d martial arts fighting game that mainly plays [...]
Port and Configure - Specialists Wanted for Diablo-like and 3D and cute pixels!
Posted by Onote on Monday, May 10, 2010
Holyspirit is a good-looking hack & slash game with (rendered?) 3D graphics, which I unfortunately was only able to run using wine (and it wasn't very stable either: entering some areas and saving would cause it to freeze).It [...]
Formula Retro
Posted by Onote on Saturday, May 8, 2010
Formula Retro is an actively developed "Sega's Virtua Racing look-alike". I found it to be somewhat buggy (but stable) and I like the look.Windows releases are available for download and here are GNU/Linux compile instructions, [...]
Ryzom FOSS: The Art
Posted by Onote on Friday, May 7, 2010
Ryzom has been released under AGPLv3 for server, client and "content creation tools" and BY-SAv3 for 17463 png image files and 7553 max 3d model files (see ). The 3D format is problematic, as .max is a proprietary format, [...]