Some more (L)GPL strategy game love

Ok, quick update before too much dust gathers around here ;)Just yesterday I stumbled upon this gem of a strategy game over at LGDB:They call that simple bot???Its name is Quantum, as some of you might have guessed it is a clone of Dyson/Eufloria. But the game is quite mesmerizing with the strange background noise and your armies of small space tree spores conquering new worlds. But try it yourself!Now normally clones are not as good as the original,...

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O A.D. Alpha 1 Argonaut

Fresh from our forums come the news that the first playable (multi-player only) alpha of O A.D. has been released!0 A.D. Alpha 1 videoIt features "aggressive units that attack enemies on sight, lifelike animals that escape danger, two new maps, in-game multiplayer chat and much more"! Check their release news for more details and instructions how to install.As always this gem of a game is looking for helping hands, so join them now and become part of FOSS gaming history!P.S.: I will be looking into playing some MP FreeGamer matches with this...

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RTCW and ET open-sourced

You probably heard it before elsewhere, but I was waiting for some actual developments to occur instead of making yet another "yay! source release!!!" blog entry ;)Anyways... the kind people over at id software have decided to release the source code of this two awesome games under the GPLv3.The guys behind the engine improvements of Quake3, IoQuake3 have already a source repository running and you can expect them to merge all the nice stuff from...

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Quake2 engine day ;)

Ok, today I have quite a lot of stuff, and its all Quake2 related :p Believe it or not Quake2 is alive and kicking... and its engine is featuring some of the very best open-source games!For those who might have missed it: AlienArena 7.45 has been released recently and the release makes an already solid game even more awesome ;)Further more the UFO:AI team is making some great progress after their highly acclaimed 2.3 release two months ago. Besides...

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Some Free, Open Source Puzzle Games

FlipoutCan you imagine what a mix between a Pin-Ball machine, a physics simulator and a breakout clone would look like? Well your wildest dreams have been answered! Check this out:FlipoutThe game Flipout combines all this, and is a very challenging game in addition (didn't manage to even complete the first level :( ). But try it yourself ;)Mechanical TowerAnother pretty interesting game by the same author is Mechanical Tower, a self described tower...

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Two weeks?

Has it really been that long since the last post here? I'd better contribute before tumble weed hits the front page.Egoboo 2.8.0 has been released (download + changelog). The Egoboo team stress this is an unstable release, that it hasn't yet seen the kind of testing they would like it to have, but it is "biggest release Egoboo has ever had" so it is good news for the project.Which got me thinking of the successor to Egoboo, SoulFu. Now, this project has had a rocky history. The author released it as "niceware" (some silly 'you agree to be nice...

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