OpenTTD, Simutrans, and Egoboo

OpenTTD OpenGFXOpenTTD moved a step closer to being a Free Software game with alpha releases of OpenGFX, the "[8bpp] Graphics Replacement Project". There's still a few black boxes ("features") where yet-to-be-replaced buildings should be, but it looks fairly good other than that.OpenTTD 32bit extra zoomOf course, this is just the low-resolution replacement that makes OpenTTD fully free, and is not to be confused with the high-resolution graphics...

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Dungeon crawler action-adventure: Meritous

Meritous: lots of projectiles and no shieldsThrough Libregamewiki, I found a game that was new for me: Meritous, a real-time dungeon crawler (like Goblin Hack) with strong arcade tendencies.Meritous's map viewIn the game you walk through rooms and fight monsters. These enemies sometimes have multiple forms (and thus need to be killed more than once). You try to avoid the projectiles they shoot at you, while charging your psi circuit, to release a...

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Warzone 2100's new terrain

Warzone 2100's new lookDevelopment of new, experimental terrain renderer for Warzone 2100 has started. It blends textures depending on terrain and it looks freaking awesome. For comparison: an example of the old terrain.Four CGTextures-textures (at 1024x1024 pixels) were kindly permitted to be used under GPL terms. But more are needed. If you happen to have some mad texturing skillz up your sleeves: Warzone 2100 needs you! You can see the current...

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RPGs, Blood and Puzzles!

Fall of Imiryn r792Annchienta is an isometric RPG engine. It is being used by the console-style RPG Fall of Imiryn (FoI), created by the same developer. The terrain is kind of 3D while everything else is good old pixel-ish sprites.So how playable is the game? Well, it has NPCs and enemies, it has end bosses and maps and character levels and skills and spells. There is grinding and there are savepoints. Sounds complete? Oh right, story! It has story...

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Open Source Game Engines Updates

OGRE 1.6.0 aka Shoggoth is the newest version of the acclaimed 3D engine. I don't understand anything that's on the changelog, but it obviously goes beyond bugfixing and tweaking. :)There are no recent pre-compiled packages available, so the source way is the way to go, for now.The Infinity Engine's clone GemRB had some DONEs added to it's TODO, when version 0.3.1 was released a month ago.OpenMW, an OGRE-based engine for TES3's game data, is now 0.5-versioned. Considering that the project started in this year's june, this number is quite impressive!...

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Eye of the Tiger

I shall be brief, for I am in my briefs, and briefly available to briefly brief you.Warzone2100 2.1rc1 - the first release to include the original game sound track. Read the announcement and the changelog for more details.It's like Command and Conquer. Except it's good. See video:Rising up... mmmmm mmmm... took my time took my chances... aaaah ooo... just a man and his will to survive... nmmmm mmmmm... its the Eye of the Tiger!" Gotta love that track.There's a new development release of Oolite, the elite-inspired game. Version 1.72 (announcement,...

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LordsAWar! 0.1.3, OpenArena 0.8.1, Commander Stalin 0.9.3

LordsAWar! 0.1.3LordsAWar! reached an (unstable) 0.1.3 release. After installing some game-uncommon libraries and compiling for half an hour, I expected to move some units around for some turns and stop playing from being bored. But actually, I enjoyed the simple game rules.LordsAWar! has decent graphics and good music. I like very much that the game cares about the player by providing a 'restore crashed game' button. The game did crash once, but...

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On Scourge AI and Widelands

WidelandsA quick one today. Firstly, I forgot to mention Widelands yesterday. A new version, a release candidate for build13, is available for download. The changelog is immense, so it should be large improvement over build12 which, for me, felt a little unpolished. Some of the highlights of build13 are:More stable multiplayerFPS regulation for less CPU usageImproved economy routingMany new soundsMany new graphics and animations especially for...

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The Morning After The Night Before

Something important happened last night. Something transformational. Qubodup designed a new forum logo.:-)For those that don't follow the planet, which is titled "news" in the link bars ^^, there have been some great game updates lately.Vega Strike ship: MK32This update on Vega Strike is a great read with some screenshots of the many gorgeous new models that have gone into the game. They also have a new gallery system since the old one was fairy...

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Shared open source game media

Free Art Search shared media mapFree Art Search, the svn/cvs/git media tracking application developed by hagish and ghoulsblade, now has an overview over the data that is shared between different projects.I find this tool very exciting! It shows how open sourcing media does help projects and if it was more detailed, one could see what media-demand exis...

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