Cross-Language Community(?)

It recently came to my attention that over 24% of Simutrans forum posts are in languages other than English. Some posts (including a few jokes) later FreeGameDev had its first non-English board.Simutrans Forum Post LanguagesShould we really have a section on our board for non-English languages?Pro:Lurkers who would not post in English would have the chance to contribute in the international forumEngaged non-English-speakers...

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GJID

GJID's first levelI have a hard time playing puzzle games when their only reward is getting to the next one. Consequently I'm usually not a fan of Sokoban games. Having a little or a lot of story bundled with the puzzle helps though.In GJID you control a brave robot of the name GJID, who volunteered to recycle dangerous weapons from a cold war. In 14 levels you have to dispose of nuclear and disruptor weapons.Movement controls reacts instantly...

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Totally missed the Annex Beta 1 release :(

Wow... can believe this myself, but after hyping this cool Megaglest mod a few times here on FreeGamer I totally missed their first release last month :(Here as a reminder how cool Annex-Conquer the World looks:Annex - Conquer the WorldCurrently there is only a Windows port available, but a Linux version is promised for the next release... Edit: I was confused about the media licensing... more or less all the new assets are CC-by-NC-SA, which is as you might know not considered FOSS due to the NC clause. A pity really :-/So... how was I reminded...

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0AD Alpha 7 Geronium and more

Act 1 In case you've been hiding under a rock or you rely on Free Gamer for your open source game updates (and we love you if you do), there has been another release of 0AD (announcement) the 3D historical RTS game. Lots of improvements, including an all-new and unique Carthaginian civilization, a new main menu that moves, new music, new sound effects, new maps, and likely (although not mentioned) a lot of development and the fixes and subtle improvements...

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FPS news

Short one for today... I guess Charlie will make a longer post about the new 0 A.D. release later on (sorry to steal your thunder :p ).So FPS news only from me today ;)Irritant, the lead developer of AlienArena was so kind to inform us that a new release can be expected within a week.Check the rest of the new screens-hots in the thread linked above.Other that this? Well there is a rather interesting thread about a Tremulous art update mod called...

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Adamant Armor Affection Adventure (and more) open sourced

Adamant Armor Affection AdventureThe quadruple-A block-style story-based, sneaky-action pandora game Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is now GPLed. Along with it some other games for that platform by the same author (AAA for one [video]) were open sourced.Sources can be downloaded here (AAAA) and here (other games).  Video: 13 minutes of AAAA on OpenPandora Much more info about the releases along with some internet drama history...

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Slipstream Vehicle Simulation

The author of Techne has a new project:Slipstream is a free racing vehicle simulator trying to be physically accurate and fun to play at the same time! Contrary to most simulators out there it's not designed around a single type of vehicle. It should be able to support anything from a bicycle to a car or anything else that can be driven around on a racetrack for that matter.Help is requested on the content-side: The graphics are still very primitive I'm afraid but they get the job done at least. Making Slipstream pretty is still a high...

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Summer Shorts 2 + Screens

Unknown Horizons Player Scores...gscai of the real-time colony building simulation Unknown horizons wrote a short player-view summary of how the game's artificial intelligence works.libtcod's project browser filterlibtcod, an advanced toolkit for roguelikes now has an online browser for projects using it that allows to apply filters.Tactical battle in HaleI stumbled over Hale, an RPG described as having "deep tactical combat system and...

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Wazzal (dx8 game) open sourced!

Wazzal in spaceWazzal is a single-player role-playing space trading and combat game that features a compact plot, ship-boarding mini-fights and allows to switch control between ships during team battles.The recently open sourced game was made by Ville M�nkk�nen of Instant Kingdom (IK). He is responsible for excellent freeware games including Notrium and is currently working on a for-pay top-down fantasy RPG.IK community member Amarth shared...

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DungeonHack/Godhead Demo Ultimatum

DungeonHack aka Godhead imposed an ultimatum on itself: two weeks for finishing a gameplay demo using the Lips of Suna engine.Should the demo not be finished by that time, the development team will commit Seppuku.Just kidding. :)It's refreshing to see an open project put some pressure on itself. I'm looking forward to the results of th...

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GeneticInvasion : a brand new Tower Defence

Hi! I'm here to show you a new game that I'm working on: GeneticInvasionIt's Tower Defence game, but it has something special: it uses evolutionary algorithms.The idea of evolutionary algorithm is to use darwin theory to solve problems:We generate random solution to the problem. We evaluate them. We take some of the better ones, apply random mutations to them, and generate an offspring from them. The child replaces their parents in the solution population to form a new generation. And we do this, again and again, until we find a solution that is...

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