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Posted by
Onote on Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The self described open-source rogue-like survivalcraft / driving game in a sci-fi zombie apocalypse
has successfully reached its goal on Kickstarter, and one of the developers will now be able to work on it full-time for a few months to implement for example a back-end for proper graphics.
But see and hear about it yourself:
The first stretch-goal is close too, with 12 days remaining to pledge money towards this cool project.
Less rosy does it look for the
previously featured Data Dealer project. With only 48 hours to go, but still about 10k missing it will be a close finish if at all. They got some remarkable press lately though and jumped up about 10k in the last days,
so it is still possible. So if you haven't done it yet,
pledge here.
Posted by
Onote on Sunday, June 30, 2013
The
the last Kickstarter game project we featured was sadly not successful and with only 11 days to go it doesn't look too good for
Data Dealer either. But this HTML5 and CC-by-SA licensed game project comes with a pretty cool idea and is quite playable already.
It centers around the idea that services like Facebook & Google really arn't in the business of bringing you a good service (aka "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold") and makes a ironic game out of that.
Here is game-play trailer to give you an better idea:
Or try the current demo on
their webpage.
Now of course as we have all recently learned (or at least got confirmation about), the reality is even more twisted than just the private business side of things. But over the revelations of the mass surveillance by the NSA & Co., we should still not forget that all those big internet companies arn't victims by far either.
P.S.: My best wishes go out to Mr. Snowden! You are a hero of our generation.
Posted by
Onote on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Ancient Beast is a FOSS game project that has been in development by
Freezing Moon for a couple of years, tantalizing everyone with top notch
concept art and 3D models.
After a rather large restructuring in game scope, where they changed from attempting to create a 3D RTS in the Blender Game Engine, to a 2D hexagonal TBS built on HTML5, they have delivered a promising
gameplay prototype that offers a mix of Heroes of Might and Magic and Magic: The Gathering's gameplay.
Gameplay currently revolves around summoning creatures and using their abilities to defeat other summoners
Still in heavy development, the game still needs to implement the entirety of its
sizable bestiary, as well as adding animated creatures by utilizing the models they have created.
So, if you have any skills in web development, jump aboard and help them complete this awesome game!
Posted by
Onote on Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Linus Torvalds not only showed his annoyance with Nvidia but also his love towards open source games in a
recent talk (goto 58m20s).
ctdabomb, an active community member, converted and license-clarified the
Art Museum SuperTuxKart racing track over the time span of about one and a half months, after asking the community for support.
SuperTux, a cute platformer, needs
help finishing an animated owl sprite. To the left, you can see the current placeholder graphics.
FLARE, a hack'n'slash RPG engine and game,
requested translations via email, pull request or forum post.
Posted by
Onote on Sunday, April 1, 2012
Reaction 1.0 Beta is an Action Quake 2-like based on ioq3 with "freeware" BY-NC-SA assets.
A
list of
open source Minecraft-style games was recently shared in a
Reddit thread.
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Swallow for browser-based games , as introduced in a
AltDevBlogADay post, is:
- A directory scanner which packages files into a single JSON file
- A small part of your build chain
Posted by
Onote on Saturday, March 31, 2012
screenshot of Black Dog: A fallen angel flying through hell's caves, burdened by mystical weights, with progress being limited by only slowly regenerating feathers, the many-tongued flying black beast directly behind the angel (interpretation of reviewer)
Black Dog is a dark-theme reaction/precision type side-scroller that will run in your modern HTML5/Javascript-supporting browser. It has beautiful minimal original pixel artwork and at the same time uses works from
OpenGameArt.
I highly recommend following
Wilbefast if you're interested in Android game development and game dev jams. Most content is related to open source and will soon be added to our
FreeGameDev PlanetDev feed aggregator.
Posted by
Onote on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Trophy's shop
The top-down racing/shooting game
Trophy 2.0 brings championship, shop, key configuration, load/save features and lot of code refactoring. It requires ClanLib 1.0, which unfortunately fails to compile on Arch Linux.
If you too can't get this game to run, there's still
Bandit Racer for playing in the browser.
Posted by
Onote on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Onslaught Arena
Onslaught Arena, a HTML5 top-down shooter that has a non-space-ship-scenario, is now open source code, non-free assets on
GitHub.
The assets are included under non-commercial terms and the developers did not have the time to read about Creative Commons licenses, which I'm sure is one of the reasons why CC-BY-SA isn't widely adopted: time. If you are able to give a concise description, please do in
this thread.
Three LostCast moderators
The team's blog is also home to a
podcast about HTML5 games.
Posted by
Onote on Friday, February 24, 2012
A little while ago,
Ancient Best dropped the NonCommercial license they were using for art and assets and are now
DFSG-free.
Facebook announcement about Ancient Beast's license change
The game runs in HTML5 and is a turn based strategy in early, active development. It is supposed to run on low-spec computers.
Ancient Beast Battle Mock-Up
Their
1.4 G repository of concepts, drawings, mockups, audio files and 3d models is impressive:
Ancient Beast Concept Art
Ancient Beast Icons
You can support the project through PayPal, Bitcoin and Flattr
here.
Posted by
Onote on Monday, July 11, 2011
When I was looking for last post's link to Justin's portraits, I found a collection of b/w portraits and a new crowdfunding game project: Time Hammer.
What is Time Hammer?- A game where you run, jump, fall and die, try again, smash enemies, and have fun (hopefully!) It's a retro, 8-bit throwback to an earlier time, but with some modern touches that we just couldn't help but include. Low gravity, destructible environments, a kickin chip-tune soundtrack... yeah, it's a blast!
- A gaming engine built from scratch in HTML5 / Javascript. Time Hammer will be the first fully-featured, plot-driven game featuring the HTML5
- An indie community dream come true. The game engine will be released open-source on GitHub - meaning that anybody can download it, improve it, and use it for any purpose, free of charge.
"Which license?" was my first thought and question.I haven't actually researched the nuance of those licenses, and honestly some of the kickstarter money would be used to get a lawyer to recommend one. Two strong contenders are the GPL and MIT license.
Isn't there a group of free software lawyers, who might consult for
free beer or less? Supporters can voice their opinion to this topic on the
comments page.
Going for USD 8,500
I was reassured, that flash will not be used at all, not even for sound.
