OGA challenges and snippets of games news

What you see here are the 2D/3D submission to the first three OpenGameArt 5-day game art challenges, which were initiated by pfunked, author of OSARE and active OGA artist.Check out the general rules and the current challenge rules in its thread in this forum. You don't even need to register to participate, just remember to include your author information and the correct tags ("Friday Challenge" and "ChallengeTitle", separate via ",") to your submission!The...

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Open Source RPGs coming up: Dawn RPG, OSARE, FreeDink, Hero of Allacrost, FoI

tinyoggThe future FOSS Diablo-and-more-like Open Source Action RPG Engine has an art style which I can approve of. (I do not approve of the Diablo-and-more-like FreeDroid RPG's art style.)OSARE will be close to feature complete in Fall 2010.I assume this means that it will be a working action rpg engine with enemies, items and skills, but no plot or story, ready to be turned into a game.If you feel that you can contribute something matching high...

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From death declaration to dragons and damnation... and two 2D map editors

youtube-dl: hyzOB92EuZM | tinyoggThe 2D RTS Bos Wars (BW) 2.6 has been released, after two years of release-silence. The new release includesEnhancements to the editor and map formatNew units, tilesets, maps, translations (italian and portugese)A campaignAbout the campagin, which is called "swindler", I can only say that the story drawings are beautiful and that the first mission is unbeatable boring (which is why I can't say anything about follow-up missions, if there are any): you need to navigate a weak unit through a maze of high-damage...

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SuperTux 3D & Xdriller

youtube-dl: NPK4ZaWYkJU | tinyogg: EWuLaSuperTux 3D is a 2� years old idea that is now being turned into reality by using the 2D platformer SuperTux' style and assets and the Blender Game Engine (BGE). I think the assets work well in 3D space, but of course controls and camera movement are unpleasant yet.youtube-dl: OdV9cqdy49s | tinyogg: SRqm9Xdriller is a falling-cubes-style puzzle game with nice colorful visuals and happy music. I found the game on SF.net a while ago and recently got reminded of it when I saw this tux model on OG....

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Hedgewars, JCRPG, and 0AD

Hmm, been a while, but since nobody is using my opensourcegames reddit yet, I'd better pitch in a bit here. Qubodup and Julius have been doing a stellar job in the last several months with some great posts.Hedgewars 0.9.13 is out. It now looks better than the game it is a clone of (Worms 2) which is a pretty significant milestone. They have also started to add some features that were not in the original (also an important step - differentiation)....

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ERROR 42: DEPRECATED DIMENSION; RESOLUTION NOT SUPPORTED

NOTE! YOU SHALL NOT FEED FROM THIS MESSAGE! REDIRECT BROWSER COURSE TO OUR INTERNET WEB PRESENCE NOW! CONTINUEGREETINGS HUMANS WE COME IN PEACE AS LONG AS YOU OBEY! YOUR IRRELEVANT INHABITANCE OF THE SUPERFLUOUS THIRD DIMENSION WILL COME TO AN END! COLOR SPECTRUM REDUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE! CONTINUEYOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF A MULTITUDE OH ANCIENT MODERN HISTORY. PROCEED! CONTINUEWE HAVE COME TO LEARN ALSO! YOU MUST LEAD US TO 2D VECTOR AWESOMENESS IN...

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