Fictional Air Combat 0.1.3

Fictional Air Combat 0.1.3I recently discovered YAFS on SF.net: Fictional Air Combat, which is an action flight simulation at an early development stage.There are 32 bit Win/Lin releases available, but the Linux release contains source which can be easily recompiled for 64 bit systems. (So did I.)I have not yet tried to find out the licenses/authors of 3d graphics and textures (and don't know if I will). It seems however that they are all original....

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Game Testing Job for a Free Software Person

O_o is how I feel right nowSo I was browsing the FSF homepage because I wanted to dig up some info on their PDF priority project - but never mind that - and then I think "Let's check out them job listing!" and I do and then BAM! Game Test Analysts, (Santa Monica, CA). So I think to myself "Yeah, right! This has a logical explanation to it! Game theory I bet! So I click it and BAM! O_o! It's a real job offering for beta testing video games and it's...

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Scorhed3d 42 and VDrift Refactor Release

Scorched 3D version 42 is out (full changelog). New features include:Scorched3DOptimized graphics rendering to take better advantage of hardwareScripting language support for weapons and server scriptsMuch larger landscapes supportedAdded multi-lingual support for chatting and player namesAdded localization support for dialogs and messagesSome gameplay adjustmentsBetter LAN/Internet communications for less timeoutsSome new mapsFor those who don't...

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Rigs of Rods goes Open Source and Glest 3.2

Rigs of Rods is going open source. How cool is that?Rigs of Rods (also known as RoR), is a truck, car, airplane and boat simulator. You can drive, fly or sail in total freedom in an open environment. What makes RoR different to most simulators is its unique soft-body physics: vehicles chassis and wheels are simulated in real-time as flexible objects, giving the simulation an extremely accurate behavior, while allowing the vehicles to be simply specified by their structural composition, as a network of interconnected nodes (forming the chassis...

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Simulate This - City Building + Tycoon Game Reviews

Welcome to a Free Gamer special! People often accuse the Free software and open source game sphere of lacking depth, that there are few good games. In 2009 Free Gamer is dedicated to dispelling this myth. As part of a series of articles on specific genres, highlighting the games that people develop for the love of development in order for us to play, I humbly present a set of reviews of open source city building and tycoon games. I try to be...

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Extreme Tux Racer, Smokin Guns, etc

The somewhat stop-start development of the various Tux Racer projects continues, but it looks hopeful that the latest incarnation of the iconic downhill penguin racer will not disappear like its predecessors. Extreme Tux Racer has finally released an updated 0.5 beta (Windows, Ubuntu, source for other Linuxi) after several months of inactivity. It's getting a bit of optimization love after I (yes, me, important mega me) unleashed my wrath helped...

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Militia Defense and Impulse

Militia DefenseMilitia Defense is the first open source tower defense game that I enjoy and at the same time the first L�VE-using game that I don't want to stop playing!The game features four unit types which can be upgraded and sold. It creates complexity through different terrain (grass/roof) and long reload times. Militia Defense is mostly inspired by the non-free flash game Budapest Defenders.Code and art were created by Tabasco and are covered...

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