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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Remembering and discovering some adventure and role playing games

Blood and Iron menuBlood and Iron "is a dark low fantasy tactical RPG where you attempt to lead a mercenary company to fame and fortune." This sounds like a Mount & Blade demake [EDIT] but it's not!Dark low fantasy theme You play the owner of a mercenary company, the characters on the battlefield are just employees Your goal is to make your mercenary company the most famous one in history, and to complete various special...

Friday, December 24, 2010

Happy A�fangadagskv�ld!

Three more days, 688 more US Dollars pledged to the Portrait Marathon and we get art video tutorials (so spread a little word, why don'tcha? ;) ):Fantasy Portrait Marathon pledge progressOGA's presentsThere has been a *LOT* of giving on OGA lately, two fully rigged 3d character models for example.Another present: IOFORMS' (aka iosketch) first alpha release is being prepared.Please let us know in the comments if you notice are any special present-ish...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

News Avalanche!

Zero-K:Zero-K is the reboot of Spring RTS game Complete Annihilation, with aims to distance itself from the TA IP that has plagued Spring games, and just generally be better in every way :) It comes with a revamped UI, multiple specialist commander units to play as, and a single faction instead of the traditional 2. The team is also providing a set of web services such as map and mission lists to enhance the experience, and maybe we'll even see...

Monday, December 20, 2010

An early Xmas?

Not very X-mas like at my current place of residence, but there are just so many good things coming to the FreeGamer enthusiast right now! But I am short on time and on a crappy internet connection... so only text for you guys tonight :p So, as a follow up the the recently mentioned Alpha 0.3 release of 0AD and their donation drive, UbuntuGamer has now published a pretty nice interview with one of the 0AD contributors.Their donation drive is also still running, so if you have some money to spare, head over here. They are still a long way from the...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

From Open to Free, visual programming, new SumWars RPG and Berlin game dev summoning

FLARE logoOSARE is now FLARE. From an OGA tread:I sent an email to Richard Stallman asking if he's interested in supporting Justin Nichol's Creative Commons Fantasy Portrait Project.He pointed out that the difference between "open source" and "free" or "free/libre" and noted this:"However, if you decide to describe it "free" or "free/libre" instead of "open source", then I would be honored to participate."Stallman's lectures are what convinced me...

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Lithosphere - awesome visual procedural 3d terrain map generator with shaders

Forget my last post about terrain generators! I'm just going to let the screen/video talk for themselves.Lithosphere is a GPU driven terrain generator. It allows you to create and export material textures and heightmaps intended for use in realtime graphics applications.All terrain algorithms are implemented as GLSL fragment shaders operating on floating point textures. This allows realtime modification of the terrain. A graph of nodes is evaluated...

Monday, December 13, 2010

Portrait Marathon got $1500, could use $1500 more :)

The fantasy portrait marathon reached first base. I just wanted to let you know. Remember, that if it reaches $3000 ($9000!!!/3), we will get a massive instructional vid...

Friday, December 10, 2010

Fantasy Portrait Marathon Update and Reddit Game Jam #4 in a few hours!

Justin added new possible targets to his freely-licensed fantasy portraits project for OSARE and OGA:$1500by December 28th30 portraits$2000by December 28th35 portraits$3000by December 28th35 portraits + a full length instructional video showing the painting process for the collectionI sure hope we can arrange this gift of Justin's video to ourselves..You can spread the word on fsdaily and reddit.In other news: there's a 48h game jam STARTING TODAY!...

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Contributing to FPSs, RPGs and other games by sharing thoughts and spreading words

I* joined PARPG to work on game interaction (controls and GUI). This decision was made after taking a look at some projects and talking with their members about what tasks are available. Now I want to tell you about the 'open source jobs' available out there.Radakan (RPG) is currently a solo project that uses the Python 3D engine Panda3D. Project lead Taldor would like help with the game design, GUI design, Writing (dialog & quests) and content creation (creating and converting models, managing the content pipeline). Warning: Radakan's website...

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Quoting releases: Bitfighter, Love2d, OpenClonk

BitfighterThere's a new version of the retro-style multiplayer top-down action game Bitfighter and a well-readable changelog:This version features new Soccer rules, and a verified user name system protected by your forums password. Many other improvements, including important stability fixes and enhancements for all platforms.love2d 0.7 no-game-screenL�VE 0.7 "Game Slave" has finally been released! This is a Lua 2D game engine also known as "love2d"....

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Freely Licensed Fantasy Portraits Financing!

The styleOpen-art artist Justin Nichol intends to create 30 freely licensed portraits (or more) in the style you see above. I support his Fantasy Portrait Marathon for 3 purposes:Allow an open source enthusiast artist to continue his studiesProvide portraits for  the excellent slash-and-hack OSAREAdd a quality set of art to OpenGameArt for use in various gamesThe cash$1500, Dec 28The targetTargeted is a backing of $1500 until end of 2010. At...

Saturday, November 27, 2010

M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous Shooter

Can a game that has "ridiculous" in the title be bad? No. It can not!M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous ShooterEven though I'm no fan of the multiplayer (zero-)gravity-shooter genre, I enjoy playing M.A.R.S., which features AI enemies and wingmen, various weapon types, upgrades and a pretty cool game mode, where a huge cannon will shoot at the planet of the enemy team of whoever is holding the remote to it. I also think it's darn pretty.BAM!M.A.R.S. uses shaders...

A little bit of everything

Long time no see!Before you look at the pictures: I can only recommend following the FGD Game Planet and Dev Planet. That is all ;).GamesCONSCONS is a NOOB FRIENDLY!!! roguelike written in Lisp. It is 'friendly' because the amount of possible actions is low and they are all tooltip-explained in the main window. I also like the color scheme and simple look. Follow the developer on his blog. I know I do.XenowarXenowar is a simple-gfx squad tactics...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

6 Festival Khas di Indonesia

Indonesia sering disebut sebagai raksasa tidur Asia Tenggara, dan julukan itu memang tepat. Dengan lebih dari 18 ribu pulau, gugusan pulau ini memiliki keragaman luar biasa akan apa yang bisa Anda lihat atau lakukan saat berlibur ke sana.Modernisasi membawa berbagai macam pembangunan (sebagian mengatakan pembangunan yang berlebihan) ke Jakarta, sementara pariwisata Bali kembali hidup setelah sempat hancur ketika ledakan bom 2002 lalu. Ada juga pegunungan...

Lautan Pasir Gunung Bromo

Keberadaan Gunung Bromo dengan lautan pasirnya yang fenomenal sudah cukup lama dikenal sebagai salah satu tujuan wisata terkemuka di Indonesia. Gunung Bromo merupakan salah satu gunung pada Pegunungan Tengger.Dengan ketinggian 2.392 meter di atas permukaan laut, panorama elok terpancar saat memandang pesona alam yang tidak akan pernah ada habisnya. Gunung Bromo berasal dari bahasa Sanskerta yang berarti Brahma atau seorang dewa yang utama dan terletak...

Pesona Warna Kawah Kelimutu

Inilah sebuah gunung yang menyimpan misteri sekaligus pesonanya. Gunung Kelimutu terletak di Desa Pemo, Kecamatan Kelimutu, Kabupaten Ende, Pulau Flores, Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT). Dengan puncak berketinggian 1.690 m dari atas permukaan laut, gunung itu memiliki keunikan karena ada tiga buah danau kawah berbeda warna.Danau ini dikenal dengan nama Danau Tiga Warna karena memiliki tiga warna yang berbeda, yaitu merah, biru, dan putih. Walaupun...

Friday, November 19, 2010

Well, screw this...

We need contributors, contributors, contributors to misquote a famous internet meme ;)So if you want to be a new author writing wacky (or wicked) articles here on FreeGamer, contact us! Don't let this Blog die! And hey it's a good excuse to be lazy and not work on actual open-source games :DFOSS game newsSo what kind of gaming related news have piled up in my list during the last month (yes it has been nearly a month since goat's post :( )?Freeroid recently got a major update, bringing it up to version 0.14. Another major update was given to us...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Atonement (or Goat's Monthly Post)

Julius' endless poking has sent me over the cliff of post-guilt, fortunately, lots of projects have been jumping up and down for attention of late, so I have quite a bit of content to redeem myself with. RPGsOSAREOSARE showing off powersPfunked and recently released an update to the promising OSARE This brings "powers" to the game, the classic Hack 'n Slash abilities that encompass magic, melee and ranged special attacks. No skimping on them here...

Sunday, October 24, 2010

GetDataBack V3.03 Full+Serial

Whatever happened to your drive-GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted...Recover even when Windows doesn't recognize the drive-GetDataBack can even recover your...

Aplikasi Penjualan dan Pembelian

Mempunyai Sebuah usaha adalah dambaan setiap orang, kecepatan dan keakuratan data sangat dibutuhkan dalam hal ini untuk mengetetahui omset penjualan, stok barang, keuntungan per barang dan retur jual serta retur beli salah satu solusi untuk mengatasi keruwetan pengolahan data yang masih manual maka kita membutuhan sebuah perangkat atau alat untuk menghitung penjualan dan keuntungan.Ada beberapa solusi untuk mengatasi perhitungan penjualan dan laba,...

Pemrograman NirKabel

Kita akan mendiskusikan tentang pangsa pasar wireless LAN, gambaran masalalu, sekarang dan masa depan dari wireless LAN, serta pengenalan wireless LANstandar pemerintah. Kemudian kita akan mendiskusikan beberapa aplikasi yang sesuaiuntuk wireless LAN. Menurut pengalaman dari cerita dan evolusi dari teknologiwireless LAN merupakan bagian yang penting dari prinsip dasar wireless LAN. Suatupemahaman dari mana wireless LAN datang dan aplikasinya serta...

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Yamicsoft WinXP Manager v6.0.2

Yamicsoft WinXP Manager v6.0.2 | 5.47 MBTweak and Optimize your Windows XP - WinXP ManagerWinXP Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows XP. It will increase your system speed, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations. It's compatible with Windows XP SP3 entirely!WinXP Manager is the powerful software tool to tweak and optimize Windows XP, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one...

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 v1.0.0 iPhone iPod

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 v1.0.0 iPhone iPod | 50 MBFootball fans will be able to rip the latest installment in the series is considered the best simulation of football in October 2010. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 has been confirmed during the fair Gamescon 2010, where the Konami booth set a poster which advertises the next Lionel Messi of sports applications for the iPhone. PES 2011 in addition to the standard improvements in gameplay and graphics...

USB Disk Security v5.3.0.20 Portable

USB Disk Security provides 100% protection against any threats via USB drive, however, the majority of other products are unable even to guarantee 90% protection. USB Disk Security is the best antivirus software to permanently protect offline computer without the need for signature updates, but other antivirus software should update signature database regularly, and they cannot effectively protect offline computer. This light and easy to use solution...