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Posted by
Onote on Saturday, January 7, 2012
As the FPS resident gamer here at FreeGamer (I am playing usually under the nick poVoq btw ;) ) I am keeping you up to date to the newest FPS updates:
Hot of the press: the
cosmic edition (1.2) of
Red Eclipse was just released; Lots of new maps and feature additions (and they toned down that annoying hit-sound a bit). Sadly their
trailer-contest has not resulted in a cool video yet that I could post here, so take this opportunity to make a cool one ;)
Another new release (
7.53) comes from the
AlienArena guys, which seem to have made some nice updates to their engine to speed up the performance on higher settings.
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| Alien Arena 7.53 |
Quick rundown of other news:
War§ow got a new website, and there is a nice
teaser webpage up for TremZ (no surprise to me btw, that they pushed back their release date by 2 months). But the engine (
OpenWolf) they are using is making nice progress also as you can see
here (
and here in a video: integration of Newton Physics and more).
Posted by
Onote on Friday, January 6, 2012
Renegade Ops
- Developer: Avalanche Studios (SE)
- Publisher: SEGA
- Genre: Shooter
- Release Date: October 26, 2011 (US)
About Renegade Ops
Renegade Ops puts players in a mobile commando unit sent behind enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Defeat enemies across a range of stunning environments using a wide variety of vehicles, from dispersing electromagnetic shock waves to the deployment of a huge Gatling gun armed to the teeth.
Minimum System Requirements
- OS: Windows Vista/7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.6 Ghz / AMD Athlon Phenom X3 @ 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 2 Gb
- Hard Drive: 10 Gb free
- Video Memory: 256 Mb
- Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet Connection for Online Multiplayer
- DirectX: 10
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements
- OS: Windows Vista/7
- Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 2.8 GHz
- Memory: 3 Gb
- Hard Drive: 10 Gb free
- Video Memory: 512 Mb
- Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTS 250 / ATI Radeon HD 5750
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet Connection for Online Multiplayer
- DirectX: 10
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- DVD Rom Drive
Download Renegade Ops – Direct Link
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Posted by
Onote
Scooby-Doo! First Frights
- Developer: Torus Games
- Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Genre: Action
- Release Date: 2011
About Scooby-Doo! First Frights
The game begins with the Mystery, Inc. gang at their "incorporation" (really just a small house in a swamp, as seen in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed). Velma arrives with a newspaper, announcing to the gang that there will be a food festival at Keystone Castle. Scooby and Shaggy like the idea of going, but Daphne reminds them that they promised to help her cousin Anna at the St. Louis High School Musical. Scooby and Shaggy want to help her, but they plan to get it done quickly so they can go to the food festival. The game divides in to four episodes from here.
Download Scooby-Doo! First Frights – Direct Link
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Posted by
Onote on Thursday, January 5, 2012
From an announcement email:
Hi, after some months of silence we've released version 1.4 with a huge changelog. Some highlights:
- 71 tracks
- 2 new cars (TC6, NS)
- Fixed shadows (self shadowing, lightmapping)
- Better looking shaders (fresnel effect, reflectivity/specular maps)
- SSAO effect (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)
- Sound effects and particles for water or mud areas
- Improved in-car camera
- Rear gear throttle-brake inverse option
Also, installing this game just got a whole lot easier for linux users as there is now a binary Linux release (32 and 64 bit).
Trigger Rally 0.6 has been out for two months by now but now there are some high-resolution gameplay videos available:
The game is much simpler in all aspects than Stunt Rally but it runs well on netbooks. There is a
community effort going on to replace copyright/trademark-
problematic assets right now.
Maybe you can help by answering this strange question: would you consider
these 3D models to be infringing on proprietary car designs?
Posted by
Onote on Wednesday, January 4, 2012
SuperTux level design mistakes to avoid
SuperTux just got a
forum on FreeGameDev.net and started a level contest.
Rules:
- A snow tileset theme
- Submit your levels here until the 27th of January, when voting will start
- Voting on levels will end on the January 30st
- Winners will be announced January 31st
- Have fun
- One level per person
- Top few levels will/can be made into an add-on or
- If admins are okay with it top levels will get added to incubator island (if winners are okay with it - pick cc0 or cc-by-sa for your level)
- One entry per person
- Please make a new level. (not from and existing worldmap/levelset)
- Don't vote for your self.
- Voting will take place in a new forum topic.
- Feel free to comment on peoples levels, most people would like to hear what was wrong or good with their level.
Get the
editor, read the
editor guide (and just play around, as the guide is incomplete ;) ) and check out the
style guide.
You can upload submissions in
this thread.
Posted by
Onote on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Bits & Bots: controlling two robots at once
Bits & Bots is a real-time puzzle game about figuring out the codes to moving robots around and get them to their targets most efficiently. It comes with binaries for 32/64bit Linux and Windows. Gpl code, by-sa art.
Goblin Camp 0.2, probably running some fancy tileset
- Piles replace Stockpiles. Everything is allowed and containers get automatically shuffled to where they are needed.
- Diseases will weaken and eventually kill your population if you don’t do anything about a growing population.
- Migratory animals will sometimes cross the map
- The spawning pool expands and spreads corruption in a smoother way, it’s improved from the abrupt way it was before.
- Cowardly creatures can now also panic if they encounter another panicking creature
- Death messages have been improved to give a bit more information, and a bit of variety has been added to them as well.
- Constructions strobe under the cursor now, to better visualize where one stops and another one begins.
- Portable mode. Just create a file named goblin-camp.portable in the directory where GC is installed and it’ll store all the files it needs in a sub-directory in that folder, instead of in the operating system’s default folder.
- Skeletons no longer bleed and other assorted bug fixes.
BASE Pro is a Windows-only base jumping simulation game. Its community and news can be found on
this forum.
Community member LedInfrared got the hang out of gameplay video recording and shared videos of STK and Xonotic on
this YouTube page, including download links to original video material!
Stuart Buchanan: FlightGear contributor
FlightGear's news section has seen quite a high activity lately, including three interviews:
Posted by
Onote on Monday, January 2, 2012
Two 'towers' down in MiniMek Urbie Defense
A little top-down defense game
was released under GPL (art & code) as a new year's present. It shows nicely, how libre art can be used for small game programming projects.
These use some art assets from megamek (http://megamek.info/) and therefore these games are also licensed under the GPL
A straightforward interpretation of the GPL applied to assets. I'm afraid though, the images of MegaMek might be incompatible with the GPL, due to Battletech copyright and/or trademark.
The game has good performance but little complexity except for a Missile Commander-esque twist: getting hit reduces player's spacial ability to shoot.
According to the
project page, more games with the same graphical theme are to be expected. I'm looking forward to them!
