Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's... wait, yes, it's a plane. The quintessential FOSS flight simulator gets updated, Flightgear 2.4 (announcement) has been released. The FlightGear development team is proud to announce [...]
Flightgear 2.4 plus something cuddly and something fishy
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Men of War Vietnam PC RELOADED
Posted by Onote
Men of War Vietnam PC RELOADED Publisher: 1C Company Developer: 1C Company Release Date: 09/2011 Genre: Real-Time Strategy Install Notes Unrar. Burn or mount the image. [...]
Planets are a nice thing...
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 29, 2011
...but make us FreeGamer blog-authors lazy, as all the news are already in our awesome game and development planets :pNew to the feeds is our revision control planet, for those news-freaks that want to keep up to date even if it is just a change in punctuation [...]
PyWeek 13 (And PyWeek 12 Winners)
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 25, 2011
It's time PyWeek #13 soon!The dates of this challenge are are 00:00 UTC 2011-09-11 to 00:00 UTC 2011-09-18. Timetable Friday 2011/08/12Registration underway Sunday 2011/09/04Theme voting commences Sunday 2011/09/11Challenge [...]
BZFlag Tournament hosted by Ohava Open Computers
Posted by Onote on Wednesday, August 24, 2011
BZFlagThere will be a tournament of the CTF game BZFlag.When: September 30th, at 5pm ESTWhere: Online(?)How: Visit ohava.com/gametourney for sign-up.Prize: An Ohava OpenBook BE awarded to the MVP of the winning [...]
News Shorts
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 22, 2011
OpenPatrician is a not-yet-playable free implementation in Java of Ascaron's classic The Patrician and The Patrician 2. There are some assets but unfortunately the project's default license is a noncommercial one.OpenMW [...]
Keeping up a tradition...
Posted by Onote on Friday, August 19, 2011
Yes, I post only seldom, but when I do it I keep up the good old tradition of mixing totally unrelated projects in one big post :pSo where to start today? Ahh yes:The puzzle type game Berusky 2 was recently FOSSified (code [...]
On OpenGameArt 2 and FreeSound 2
Posted by Onote on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
This is old news: OpenGameArt 2 launched and with it an improved interface for browsing and submitting freely licensed game art. Testing, feedback and submissions welcome of course. :)OpenGameArt 2 submission formFreeSound [...]
Open Source in Humble Indie Bundle #3: Haaf's Game Engine (HGE)
Posted by Onote on Monday, August 8, 2011
HGE's Particle EditorThe proprietary games sale Humble Indie Bundle has a tradition of including open source engine releases.In all of the other humble bundles there has always been at least one game that opened its [...]
LinWarrior r19+
Posted by Onote on Sunday, August 7, 2011
LinWarrior r19+ Test VideoI tested and recorded the latest LinWarrior git revision (a few changes since release19). Some of the new features in r19 and after include:Atmospheric daytime setting New units (Flopsy, Scorpion and Tank) Cockpit frame in first-person [...]
Cubosphere: First Beta
Posted by Onote on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Cubosphere 0.1 Beta testing videoThe first beta release of Cubosphere is available.The game reminds of irrlamb and Neverball but is in fact a tile-based puzzle, rather than a free-physics/precision game. It has a simple level editor and 18 visual/audible [...]
Some random FPS engine news
Posted by Onote on Thursday, August 4, 2011
Fast games for slow summer news weeks... but actually some of these news are a bit older already also :pTo start out... yes RedEclipse got a (smaller) new release a few days ago, codenamed Supernova (Version 1.1). The release notes can be found in our/their [...]