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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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!...

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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...

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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"....

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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...

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