Zero-K PlanetWars meta game

Posted by Onote on Saturday, April 30, 2011

Not sure how recent this news is, but the website of the SpringRTS based FOSS RTS Zero-K states that their online campaign metagame PlanetWars is now in BETA.

This is a screenshot of the webbased planet overview, which shows how well you (and your clan-mates) are progressing in taking over the galaxy.
Game-play of Zero-K does not change much with this game-mode, but it puts each game into a greater perspective so to say ;) But check out their own description of what PlanetWars is here.
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Download Software Pengusir nyamuk

Posted by Onote on Friday, April 29, 2011

Hari ini postingannya masih seputar software, kali ini softwarenya adalah software pengusir nyamuk alias Mosquito. saya tau software ini ketika malam-malam sedang asik menjelajah dunia maya, tapi bayak nyamuk yang ngajak perang. selalu mengganggu. padahal lagi asik-asiknya jalan-jalan di dunia maya. karena bosen liat nih nyamuk terbang sana-sini nganggu terus, akhirnya saya coba tanya mbah google cara mengusir nyamuk..! eh tau-taunya malah di kasih tau software ini. karena dah bosen liat nih nyamuk saja coba aja software ini. Ternyata ampuh jugak..! tuh nyamuk pada kabur semua he he..! bagi yang mau nyoba software ini bisa download pada link dibawah ini.
Sebenarnya software ini juga bisa mengusir serangga-serangga yang lain seperti kecoak, tikus, dan lain-lain. cukup download software ini trus install di laptop atau komputer langsung jadi deh. Dan ini dia fiturnya
1. menghasilkan suara ultrasonic pada PC Speaker Internal dengan frekuensi antara 20000Hz-65000Hz
2. Suara Ultrasonic akan mengganggu syaraf Nyamuk, Lalat, Tikus, Semut, Kecoa, sehingga mereka akan berusaha kabur dan menjauh
3. Frekuensi akan berubah tiap saat agar serangga tidak kebal
4. Suara Ultrasonic tidak terdengar manusia sehingga tidak mengganggu manusia
Program tersebut mampu menghasilkan suara dengan frekuensi antara 20000Hz-65000Hz yang melebihi batas frekuensi suara yang mampu di dengar manusia. Frekuensi tersebut menghasilkan efek yang sangat tidak diinginkan oleh Nyamuk, Lalat, Tikus, Semut, Kecoa dan beberapa jenis serangga lainnya.
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OpenDungeons 0.4.8

Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 28, 2011

OpenDungeons also jumped on the release wagon, with 0.4.8. This adds an actual menu system, a new gui, working traps, and normal maps. The team needs more modelers to add to the already large bestiary, there's a lot of faction creatures still unimplemented. Also, a shoutout to Venn from LinuxGameCast for contributing voice acting snippets



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Naev 0.5 beta

Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 27, 2011


Naev, the excellent 2D space combat and trading game, recently released a huge milestone (0.5 beta). It adds a far larger universe with more planets, more gameplay aspects such as electronic warfare, gui improvements and lots more. It also added new features to the game's engine giving developers more tools and features to play around with.


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Vertigo Beta

Posted by Onote on Tuesday, April 26, 2011


Vertigo is a rather awesome and visually stunning 3d tunnel racing game. It has multiple gameplay modes that give the game quite a bit of variety, although the core gameplay still essentially consists of rolling down a tunnel and dodging/colliding with things :)


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Download Movie Maker 2.6 Untuk Windows 7

Posted by Onote on Sunday, April 24, 2011

Movie Maker adalah software untuk mengedit video yang bisa dibilang sangat mudah untuk digunakan. jadi jangan hawatir bagi yang belum pernah mencoba software ini. dengan software ini kita bisa mengedit foto-foto kita atau video kita menjadi seperti yang kita mau. misalkan kita ingin membuat video dengan menggunakan foto-foto kita sebagai slide dan diiringi dengan musik kesayangan kita, maka kita bisa menggunakan software ini untuk membuatnya. menarik bukan..? jadi jangan sampai anda tidak bisa mngedit video dengan software ini karena software ini sagat mudah digunakan dan dalam hasilpun sangat bisa diandalkan.
bagi yang mau lihat modelnya bisa lihat pada gambar di bawah ini.
jika ingin mencoba software ini atau untuk yang sudah biasa menggunakan program ini adan ingin mendownloadnya, bisa mendownload pada link dibawah ini.
DOWNLOD MOVIE MAKER 2.6
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Download Winrar 4.00

Posted by Onote

Winrar adalah software untuk mengompres atau dekompresi yang berkapasitas kecil namun sangat dibutuhkan dalam komputer atau laptop. karena fungsinnya yang sangat banyak dan sangat berguna untuk komputer atau laptop. apalagi kalau anda suka mendownload di internet. karena di nternet sebagian besar menyimpan file menggunakan winrar. jadi intinya winrar ini adalah software yang sangat penting untuk anda semua. bagi yang ingin mendownload software ini bisa mendownloadnya disini. link download akan saya taruh di bawah.
Dan jangan lupa tinggalkan pesan atau beritahu kalau ada link yang rusak dan sebagainya. silahkan mendownload winrar 4.00 pada link dibawah ini.
DOWNLOAD WINRAR 4.00 NOW
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IDM 6.05 Full Version + Patch + Keygen

Posted by Onote on Saturday, April 23, 2011

Ini dia IDM ( Internet Download Manager ) yang Fuul Version dan termasuk sangat bagus. kenapa saya bilang bagus ? itu karena IDM versi 6.05 ini juga bisa memperbaharui atau membuat idm yang trial dan sudah tidak bisa di gunakan bisa diganti dengan versi 6.05 ini. selain itu juga didalamnya sudah saya siapkan tutorial cara menginstal patch atau keygennya. bagi yang berminat untuk mendownload IDM versi 6.05 ini bisa mendownloadnya langsung pada lnk di bawah ini.
Jangan Lupa tinggalkan pesan atau tinggalkan pesan kalau ada link yang rusak. selamat mencoba...!
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Cara Membobol Atau Menjebol Deep Freeze versi 6

Posted by Onote


Siapa yang tak kenal deep freeze !? sudah banyak orang di dunia ini yang menggunakan deep freeze. tapi pasti masih ada orang yang belum pernah menggunakan deep freeze.
Deep freeze adalah suatu program yang berfungsi untuk mengembalikan sistem operasi komputer kita ke keadaan semula setelah melakukan restart, atau dengan kata lain membekukan sistem operasi komputer kita.
Sudah mengerti kan fungsi deep freeze ? tapi di posting kali ini saya akan membahas bagaimana cara kita membobol deep freeze yang kita lupa passwordnya. ok.. langsung saja, bagi yang inggin mendownload tool/software ini, bisa langsung mendownloadnya disini. didalamnya juga sudah saya cantumkan tutorialnya. selamat mencoba.
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Humble Indie Bundle's Source Releases

Posted by Onote on Friday, April 22, 2011

The Humble Indie Bundles (HIB) have a tradition of at least part of the bundled games releasing their source.

While four of five games released source code under FOSS licenses in HIB1, only one released the source in HIB2 under a FOSS license (according to this comment, a license similar to LWJGL's).

No assets were released under Free-Art-compatible-terms, except for demo objects in Penumbra.

In HIB: Frozenbyte, two (or three) games have source releases, but all of them are non-commercial only.

This is not a complaint/demand/whine and I discourage any whiny behavior reactions. :)

I have no mind-reading ability or technology but I do have a theory, that shy source releases are missing out:
  1. When a game has a source release, which is not FOSS-compatible (shy source), contributions will only come from people with high interest in the game. This will improve the game.
  2. When a game has a FOSS-release, in addition contributions will come from people who think that the game enriches the community. This will improve availability and usability of the game.

#2 might be perceived as a problem by a game studio if they plan another sequel, because the prequel might become a stronger competitor to it.

Frogatto: open game & editor, closed art

Another game which is commercial (on iDevices) and has FOSS code and closed art (old art has been donated to OGA!) is Frogatto.

Star-filled Sky: 100% public domain

A revolutionary breakthrough were all of Jason Rohrer's commercial games, which are 100% public domain. My feeling is that assets are less of a focus for him, which makes releasing everything less of a risk.

Nikki and the Robots: open & closed

On the middle path is Nikki and the Robots, which is foss-code and has a functional foss-art version and will have a closed/for-pay-story. For now they activated paypal donations, flattr and T-shirts.
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Panda Engine Book, Blendswap Upgrade, Avoision Ad

Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Available as Paper, PDF, epub or PacktLib

Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook has been published.

Blendswap UI: Who needs links when I can do a screenshot?

Blendswap has more features now. Artists have more control for one thing and can edit their submissions for example.

I suspect that many visitors use Adblock, so let me share this ad that appears on Free Gamer today:
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STK 0.7.1, CC to OF, SaRII 2.2.0,jCRPG, CC TXT, OSM and TitA

Posted by Onote on Friday, April 15, 2011

  1. SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 released! [great changelog!]
  2. Former CubeCreate lead dev will now work on OctaForge (so far #octaforge chat is the only piece of infrastructure)
  3. Search and Rescue II has improved sound and uses OpenAL now
  4. jClassicRPG's developer wrote short-term goals for the project (also forum registration now works)
  5. Creative Commons licenses are now officially available in .txt format (for easy inclusion in Your Game Project)
  6. Adam Drew of Red Hat will webcast about Linux/Open Source music production April 20
  7. Steampunk MMO project Tempest in the Aether will have an OpenGameArt-featured art contest during Weekend of April 30th - a todo list will be released on April 20th
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Maquetta, IBM's open source WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor

Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 14, 2011

Short quick news related to (more game focused HTML5 editors and game creators) tools we discussed earlier:

Our all beloved corporate overlord IBM, has handed over their internal WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor Maqetta, to the open-source dojo foundation so that it will thrive and be expanded by the community.




The feature list is already quite impressive, and even though I am no HTML-5 programming expert I assume it could be used for game creation already. But of course some extra specific extensions, pre-made game code and easier java-script integration would probably go a long way in making this tool even more user friendly for the game-dev. crowd.
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Nikki and the Robots

Posted by Onote on Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Nikki and the Robots is an incredibly cute platformer developed by people with exotic taste for revision control [Darcs repo] and programming language (Haskell). Read more on joyride's code page. There's a nikki wiki and a bug tracker.

A story mode is in development, which will be proprietary and for-pay.

Code is under LGPL and free-version-art under CC-BY-SA.


I made a little level pack:

celldropping 1-4 levelpack

Also: t-shirts!
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SDL.License = "zlib"; SDL.License != "LGPL"; TRUE

Posted by Onote on Friday, April 8, 2011

Everybody likes images!

SDL is now zlib-licensed [announcement].

Galaxy Gameworks will no longer be selling licenses to SDL, but will continue to support our existing customers.

SDL development will continue, but will largely be community driven and Ryan and I will continue to coordinate patch integration and SDL releases. We will be working to make it easier to contribute in a variety of ways, and are looking for people interested in helping out.

This piece of info came from @icculus and by the way: I didn't even know that SDL originated in Loki Software before icculus' talk. Wikipedia's SDL history is an interesting read (two paragraphs only too :) ).

The company behind SDL's commercial licensing has been Galaxy Gameworks for the last 2-3 years. The company will close doors to enhance a family's life if I read this post correctly.

(Have fun complaining about my source code title. I don't even know how to C. ;) )


PS: Would anyone like to contribute (to) a post about GSoC? I know how to compile a list of game projects that are involved but have never been involved with it in any form or even talked about it much with a participant about it.
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icculus' "Gaming on Linux" (adjusted for open source context :) )

Posted by Onote on Thursday, April 7, 2011

A 1-hour talk. By a pretty cool guy called @icculus called Ryan C. Gordon. About games and open source.

Teaser: "We only did this because Linux gives us a woodie."

Gaming on Linux by Ryan C. Gordon
Download [.ogv | .m4v] (use context menu to surpress in-browser media player)

More talk recordings from the Flourish conference 2011 are here. If you have trouble with playback in the browser, you can always download the .m4v or .ogv files.

I enjoy watching Machinima's All Your History series. The 5-part id Software history is slightly relevant here, since you know.. open source fps engines.

Part 1 of id Software All Your History
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Myst Online Finally goes Open Source

Posted by Onote

After years of waiting and gamboling, Myst Online / Uru has opened the source to their client and 3d max plugin. At the same time, an open source replacement server has also been made available, so it's basically the whole package, minus the artwork.


They also re-opened their servers for anyone to play for free, so sign up, check it out, and donate! Unfortunately no Linux support at the moment, but hopefully a porting effort gets started soon (linux client here: http://plasmaclient.info ?)


To contribute, check out their development site here: http://www.openuru.org/

Edit: Kaelis, a long time community member, asked people to check out https://github.com/H-uru/Plasma as well, being run by a different group of people
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Search and Rescue I 1.3.0 and SaR II 2.0.0

Posted by Onote on Monday, April 4, 2011


SaR2

The 1.3.0 release of Search and Rescue mostly contains improvements from the fork SaRII and I'm not sure why the forking happened but I'm glad to read that it happened without bad blood. :)

SaRII aims for better looks and ease of use and it seems that SaR will take improvements from the fork but will also try to maintain backwards compatibility.
There are many ways to collaborate with the project [SaRII]:
  • Designing new scenario files (no deep programming knowledge required)
  • Designing some new missions (no deep programming knowledge required)
  • Designing some new graphics and backgrounds for the menus.
  • Finding and fixing bugs
  • Improving documentation
  • Adding new features
  • Porting SaR II to other OSs
  • Donating some cash 
It'd be great for SaR to be easier to get started with.

I will use page2rss.com to track changes of these two projects.
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Stunt Rally 1.1

Posted by Onote on Sunday, April 3, 2011

Stunt Rally 1.1 looking awesome

Stunt Rally now compiles on Linux!

There is a two-part text-commented video tutorial for making new tracks on youtube [p1 | p2]. Check out this channel if you want to see more videos of the game.

Technology-wise the game is VDrift + Ogre + Pagedgeometry (also used in DungeonHack) + MyGUI.

Thumbs up to the project website following the "big screenshots on main page"-philosophy!
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Free Gamer = Freeware Gamer

Posted by Onote on Friday, April 1, 2011

I was thinking of writing an April fool's post but then started thinking over how confusing the terms "Free Software" and "Free" and "FOSS" often prove to be and after a quick chat that included all the authors of Free Gamer we will turn to Freeware because there are many more games in freeware space and it's much easier to deal with games when you don't care about licenses too much.

Our future logo

So I present to you: Freeware Gamer (site redesign and re-branding pending).

Stay tuned for lots of updates on games we played on Newgrounds and Facebook!
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Downlod Windows 7 All in One

Posted by Onote


Windows 7 all in one adalah gabungan dari beberapa windows 7. Dengan windows 7 all in one, anda dapat dengan mudah memiliki Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, dan Windows 7 Ultimate dalam 1 keping DVD. Jika Anda sudah bosan memakai Windows 7 Starter dan ingin mengganti dengan Windows 7 Ultimate atau lainnya cukup dengan instal dan memilihnya dalam DVD tersebut karena sudah windows 7 All In One.
Bagi yang ingin mendownload, bisa mendownload di link di bawah ini yang dibagi menjadi 5 part.


Dianjurkan agar mendownload dengan interner download manager agar lebih cepat.
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