Shadow game prototyping challange, FreedroidRPG lifesigns, recording GNU/Linux games with glc

Shadow & light mock-up, thrown together by DancDaniel Cook of Lost Garden started a shadow and light based game prototype challenge. Lost Garden is probably the best thing to read related to gaming. If you would like to participate via an open source project, feel free to gather a team on the FreeGameDev.net forums!There's some activity surrounding FreedroidRPG. The students Kaisa Anttila, Markku V�is�nen and Sami Mylly wrote an usability study...

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DNT & XUT

Today I gave DccNiTghtmare a try. I learned about the project on the LGT.DccNiTghtmare (aka DNT) is a project to make a Free (as in free speech) 3D single player RPG in a sarcastic post-apocalyptical world. Any suggestions are welcome, just put them at our forum. How convenient! I'm a big fan of apocalyptic settings, single-player games, sarcasm, free software and projects that encourage participation! DccNiTghtmareFirst impressions after starting:...

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Apricot ripens, NO just is and Warsow wants $

Winning a game of NONO is a fun little puzzle game [video]. It is built on top of L�VE, which is fairly easy to have for Win and Lin users. Mac builders wanted!I found a list of open source games for the Mobile Edition of Java. About 25 puzzle/arcade titles, mostly GPL'ed.The Apricot project is ripening with great speed! Further additions to blender have been made and videos of a playable prototype recorded and uploaded. The plan to unleash "real...

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CivCool, TremFuture, WineOne, WarzoneFree

If you have had problems viewing this blog via Internet Explorer, you should not have these problems any more. Many thanks to intelperfectionist for pointing out that css-related issue that we had!FreeCiv, it's sooo pretty (you knew that already, I know...)I recently learned to enjoy FreeCiv very much. It's pretty and fun. It also has a (fairly) new release called Mr. 2.1.5.FreeCol 0.7.4 has been released.Tremulous 1.2? Visit this page to read how...

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RubyWeekend, but also PyDay

Yesterday the first RubyWeekend ended, which is a two and a half days Ruby game creation competition. The topic was "Pirates Versus Zombies!"Seven contributions were made: kiba's digital piracy parody The CopyPirate [video], atiaxi's tbs Port Town [video], satoshi's console-based footracer [video], jlnr's ZombieSoccarrr [video], ippa's Zombie Horde [video], jacius' Election Year: Zombies vs. Pirates! [video] and trejs' Caribbean Onslaught.The submitted...

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Hex Tower Defence and Java vector tools

HexTD close viewHex Tower Defence is a Java-powered tower defense game inspired by the unfree, flash-based VectorTD.You can play it inside the browser or grab hold of the code and install/compile it with the help of these instructions.Gazelle desktopHexTD uses the SVG Salamander Java vector library. It's author is Mark McKay, who is also working on an animation suite, which supports Scalable Vector Graphics: Gazelle.Gazelle is a movie editor that...

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