Quick & Dirty FLOSS Game Updates

== Insert introductory text here ==Strategy gamesCivitas cityCivitas is a project of a colaborative educational game, where children from schools can cooperate in a network for the construction of cities.This sounds/looks like a multiplayer OpenCity. Civitas is a GPLed project written in Java.Thumbs up to kid/education-related game projects whose creators are brave enough to use standard free licenses!ClippersClippers is a board game designed by...

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Nexuiz 2.5 (taking my time)

Nexuiz 2.5 has been released 6 11 15 days ago. (I *am* taking my time! O_o) You might have spotted the announcement on Phoronix.Here is the 666 MB heavy download. In case you care about traffic more than graphics and sounds or have a weak system: An Arch Linux user created a ~60MB version for 32-bit Linux systems.So what are the big selling points of 2.5 from the player side of view? According to the changelog: New HUD, new weapons, new racing game...

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Commerce & Open Source Games: Libre Music, Tremulous Shirts

Here is some commercial free software gaming news, which I partially failed to deliver on time.Paul's Music Liberation Experiment is a product of jClassicRPG's lead developer following his passion for composing music. He releases music tracks under the gratis but non-free BY-SA-NC license and visitors can donate to specific tracks, which in return will be released under the free BY-SA license.The money earned from this will be covered to cover Paul's...

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Tank-game, 3D game educational system, text-mode-pacman, wing update

Diamond Fighters????????, Diamond Fighters is a tank arcade game that can be played alone or in two-player mode against computer-controlled enemies in a progression-based level system. I find it quite fun (it has upgrades & destroyable walls!) and good-looking (yay for pretty explosions!). Its source code is GPLed (no idea about art.)iamar [home page, project page] is a project for teaching students how to make 3d games. It covers 3D modelling...

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