Xenogear: Fighting Elly's GearXenogears is one of my favorite games of all time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it was a Japanese RPG for the Sony PS1 in 1998. Not everyone agrees that it was an amazing game, [...]
Dev-Corner: the challenges of developing long, plot-heavy FOSS games
Posted by Onote on Monday, February 28, 2011
When three became two - Glests Uniting!
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
So, to all those familiar with the Glest project... Not familiar? Glest is a popular 3D RTS that wowed the Free gaming scene with it's high quality graphics and polished gameplay back when it was released in 2006. ...it [...]
Engines of War: Not dead!
Posted by Onote
I made the mistake of writing the Spring DOTA-like game Engines of War off as dead the other day; I could not have been more wrong. In case you are unfamiliar with the term DOTA-like, the gameplay basically consists [...]
Lugaru animations, maps and skeletons are free (ShareAlike)
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Remember when we talked about Lugaru getting ripped? I just got reply (twice) from Wolfire that the licensing information described in this file is correct. [first ticket (img) | second ticket (img)]. Probably the permission was given in private conversation [...]
Dev-corner: m64's Development Lessons and Agile in Free Open Source Game Development
Posted by Onote on Saturday, February 19, 2011
In his first Lessons from Bulletstorm post, m64 talks about the importance of Level Design, Editors, Core Gameplay and Mechanics Tweaking for open source games (although most is general gamedev related).First, a disclaimer [...]
Space Combat
Posted by Onote on Friday, February 18, 2011
Space combat tutorial [MUTE (couldn't record audio on win)]Space Combat is a low-end 3d space shooter/simulator and holds promise through it's low-entry-curve tutorial*, which features computer voice. The voice is obviously-generated, [...]
FAR Colony Funding & Kambi Engine Donations (Is it possible to make money with open source games?)
Posted by Onote on Thursday, February 17, 2011
The "Is it possible to make money" thread was revived recently. And then two projects I follow announced new funding-'features':FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is "a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century". [...]
Purity
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A long time ago, on the old FreeGameDev forum, I heard of Purity; an original game based on the idTech3 engine.Recently, I was wondering what the project had become, and with the help of a few people on the irc channel, [...]
Developer Interview: Jared "Deraj" (Radius Engine/Avoision/Falling Blocks Game 2)
Posted by Onote on Sunday, February 13, 2011
Avoision & FBG2Avoision and Falling Blocks Game 2 were reviewed 5 weeks ago in the Simple & Polished post and I got curious about the perspective of a small-foss-games developer (the interviews we have had so far [...]
OpenMW 0.9 and DungeonHack Progress
Posted by Onote
OpenMW 0.9 is now available for download. Features:Exterior cells - loading, unloading and managementCharacter Creation GUICharacter creationMake cell names case insensitive when doing internal lookupsMusic playerNPCs renderingNo [...]
ProFlightSimulator: Commercial FlightGear Fork (Weak)
Posted by Onote on Saturday, February 12, 2011
ProFlightSimulator ad on Free GamerA reader pointed out a hilarious coincidence: an ad of ProFlightSimulator, a fork of FlightGear on top of the Ripping-off open engine games post.ProFlightSimulator is an [...]
Ripping off Open-Source-Engine Games: Lugaru
Posted by Onote on Friday, February 11, 2011
Lugaru is a proprietary game. The Lugaru source code was released under GPL. The Lugaru game data was released under a "freely redistributed for non commercial purposes" license. Here's an explanation by Wolfire [...]
Download IDM 6.03 Full Version
Posted by Onote
Download Internet Download Manager 6.03 Full Version.Internet Download Manager ( IDM ) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. comprehensive error recovery and resume capability [...]
LanPower's FOSS Games USB Stick
Posted by Onote on Thursday, February 10, 2011
The following is a guest post by the president of the French language gaming community LanPower [fr-en translation] which distributes game compilations.Gamekey 2 gamesThe LanPower association is a French group of network [...]
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Blue Edition
Posted by Onote
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Blue Edition In Haramain software or http://software-word.blogspot.com.Microsoft Office 2010 is the latest program as a refinement of previous versions , namely office 2007.Many advantages [...]
FreeGameDev Wiki phpBB integration, propaganda & contributions
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
FGD Forum + Wiki As an anti-spam and pro-convenience measure, you can now log into the FGD Wiki using your FGD Forum phpBB account!Please test this and comment on this post or start a thread if there are any inconveniences. [...]
Download Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Free download Adobe Photoshop CS4 on Haramain Software.Adobe Photoshop cs4 is the populer software for designe, and very inportant for designers. if you want to try this software you can download here.This link download [...]
PonySiege
Posted by Onote on Monday, February 7, 2011
It isn't nearly fluffy enough... missing that horn on its forehead... and it's not riding on rainbows... This should be fixed-lenirWhat I'm trying to say there is (obviously) that FreeSiege (git repo here | screens [...]
Xenowar: Minimalist Squad Tactics (Android/Windows)
Posted by Onote
Xenowar Xenowar is simple turn-based squad tactics. It had one or two recent releases. Gameplay is not at all as deep as UFO:AI goes but quicker to get started with and fun too.I tested it on a friend's HTC Wildfire [spec]: [...]
Download CorelDraw Graphic suite X5
Posted by Onote on Sunday, February 6, 2011
CorelDraw Grafhic Suite X5 is ferfect for the followwing audiences.Specialists in design,Small Businesses,Professionals in the field of applied design, etc. Download CorelDraw Grafhic suite X5 HereAnd for Keygen You [...]
Open Web Games, GameOn and Construct 2
Posted by Onote
(edit: Construct 2 is going Closed Source, I'll either edit out this part or keep it for reference, but don't get your hopes up when reading this)Scirra Construct is one of the few FOSS competitors to the proprietary [...]
Download Portable Adobe Photoshop Cs5
Posted by Onote on Saturday, February 5, 2011
Photoshop, created by adobe is populer grafhic design and photo enhacement program that is both powerfull and versatile.photoshop is program for designe. if you want to download portable photoshop cs5 click here.And for [...]
Download Media player Classic Home Cinema
Posted by Onote on Friday, February 4, 2011
Free download Media Playyer Classic Home Cinema.from surceforge download page.Media Playyer Classic is a light weight movie player with built in codecs.Link Download :For Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and Windows 7MPC - HC [...]
OpenDungeons Progress
Posted by Onote on Thursday, February 3, 2011
OpenDungeons, a long-time Freegamedev project has been through a lot of changes since it started on the Freegamedev forums, going through a lead-dev swap and a major re-write. In the years since we last mentioned them, they've [...]
RTS: The Romans VS. the Greek (+Chinese)
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, February 2, 2011
I take it my comments regarding the Spring RTS engine were not taken so well... so I will present some (in my opinion) much better and less messy to setup RTS games ;)One, I really like to come back to is Glest! The previously [...]
Contact: Tactical Squad RTS
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Another game from the well of innovation that is the SpringRTS community, Contact aims to be an Open-Source squad based RTS. It uses models from the DOTA-like attempt "Engines of War" which unfortunately never [...]