Zero-K PlanetWars meta game

Not sure how recent this news is, but the website of the SpringRTS based FOSS RTS Zero-K states that their online campaign metagame PlanetWars is now in BETA.This is a screenshot of the webbased planet overview, which shows how well you (and your clan-mates) are progressing in taking over the galaxy.Game-play of Zero-K does not change much with this game-mode, but it puts each game into a greater perspective so to say ;) But check out their own description...

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OpenDungeons 0.4.8

OpenDungeons also jumped on the release wagon, with 0.4.8. This adds an actual menu system, a new gui, working traps, and normal maps. The team needs more modelers to add to the already large bestiary, there's a lot of faction creatures still unimplemented. Also, a shoutout to Venn from LinuxGameCast for contributing voice acting snipp...

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Naev 0.5 beta

Naev, the excellent 2D space combat and trading game, recently released a huge milestone (0.5 beta). It adds a far larger universe with more planets, more gameplay aspects such as electronic warfare, gui improvements and lots more. It also added new features to the game's engine giving developers more tools and features to play around wi...

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Vertigo Beta

Vertigo is a rather awesome and visually stunning 3d tunnel racing game. It has multiple gameplay modes that give the game quite a bit of variety, although the core gameplay still essentially consists of rolling down a tunnel and dodging/colliding with things...

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Humble Indie Bundle's Source Releases

The Humble Indie Bundles (HIB) have a tradition of at least part of the bundled games releasing their source.While four of five games released source code under FOSS licenses in HIB1, only one released the source in HIB2 under a FOSS license (according to this comment, a license similar to LWJGL's).No assets were released under Free-Art-compatible-terms, except for demo objects in Penumbra.In HIB: Frozenbyte, two (or...

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Panda Engine Book, Blendswap Upgrade, Avoision Ad

Available as Paper, PDF, epub or PacktLibPanda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook has been published.Blendswap UI: Who needs links when I can do a screenshot?Blendswap has more features now. Artists have more control for one thing and can edit their submissions for example.I suspect that many visitors use Adblock, so let me share this ad that appears on Free Gamer today: Avois...

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STK 0.7.1, CC to OF, SaRII 2.2.0,jCRPG, CC TXT, OSM and TitA

SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 released! [great changelog!]Former CubeCreate lead dev will now work on OctaForge (so far #octaforge chat is the only piece of infrastructure)Search and Rescue II has improved sound and uses OpenAL nowjClassicRPG's developer wrote short-term goals for the project (also forum registration now works)Creative Commons licenses are now officially available in .txt format (for easy inclusion in Your Game Project)Adam Drew of Red Hat will webcast about Linux/Open Source music production April 20Steampunk MMO project Tempest in...

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Maquetta, IBM's open source WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor

Short quick news related to (more game focused HTML5 editors and game creators) tools we discussed earlier:Our all beloved corporate overlord IBM, has handed over their internal WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor Maqetta, to the open-source dojo foundation so that it will thrive and be expanded by the community.The feature list is already quite impressive, and even though I am no HTML-5 programming expert I assume it could be used for game creation already. But...

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Nikki and the Robots

Nikki and the Robots is an incredibly cute platformer developed by people with exotic taste for revision control [Darcs repo] and programming language (Haskell). Read more on joyride's code page. There's a nikki wiki and a bug tracker.A story mode is in development, which will be proprietary and for-pay.Code is under LGPL and free-version-art under CC-BY-SA.Development Video #03: Final PlatformsI made a little level pack:celldropping 1-4 levelpack[download...

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SDL.License = "zlib"; SDL.License != "LGPL"; TRUE

Everybody likes images!SDL is now zlib-licensed [announcement].Galaxy Gameworks will no longer be selling licenses to SDL, but will continue to support our existing customers.SDL development will continue, but will largely be community driven and Ryan and I will continue to coordinate patch integration and SDL releases. We will be working to make it easier to contribute in a variety of ways, and are looking for people interested in helping out.This...

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icculus' "Gaming on Linux" (adjusted for open source context :) )

A 1-hour talk. By a pretty cool guy called @icculus called Ryan C. Gordon. About games and open source.Teaser: "We only did this because Linux gives us a woodie."Gaming on Linux by Ryan C. GordonDownload [.ogv | .m4v] (use context menu to surpress in-browser media player)More talk recordings from the Flourish conference 2011 are here. If you have trouble with playback in the browser, you can always download the .m4v or .ogv files.I enjoy watching Machinima's All Your History series. The 5-part id Software history is slightly relevant...

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Myst Online Finally goes Open Source

After years of waiting and gamboling, Myst Online / Uru has opened the source to their client and 3d max plugin. At the same time, an open source replacement server has also been made available, so it's basically the whole package, minus the artwork.They also re-opened their servers for anyone to play for free, so sign up, check it out, and donate! Unfortunately no Linux support at the moment, but hopefully a porting effort gets started soon (linux...

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Search and Rescue I 1.3.0 and SaR II 2.0.0

SaR2 The 1.3.0 release of Search and Rescue mostly contains improvements from the fork SaRII and I'm not sure why the forking happened but I'm glad to read that it happened without bad blood. :)SaRII aims for better looks and ease of use and it seems that SaR will take improvements from the fork but will also try to maintain backwards compatibility. There are many ways to collaborate with the project [SaRII]: ...

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Stunt Rally 1.1

Stunt Rally 1.1 looking awesomeStunt Rally now compiles on Linux!There is a two-part text-commented video tutorial for making new tracks on youtube [p1 | p2]. Check out this channel if you want to see more videos of the game.Technology-wise the game is VDrift + Ogre + Pagedgeometry (also used in DungeonHack) + MyGUI.Thumbs up to the project website following the "big screenshots on main page"-philosop...

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Free Gamer = Freeware Gamer

I was thinking of writing an April fool's post but then started thinking over how confusing the terms "Free Software" and "Free" and "FOSS" often prove to be and after a quick chat that included all the authors of Free Gamer we will turn to Freeware because there are many more games in freeware space and it's much easier to deal with games when you don't care about licenses too much.Our future logoSo I present to you: Freeware Gamer (site redesign...

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LINK EXCHANGE

Jika Link Anda Sudah Muncul Pada Blog Saya di Mohon Untuk Mengcopy Code di Bawah Ini DAN PASTEKAN DI BLOG ANDA SEKALIAN :<a href="http://Blue-software.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blue Software</a&...

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