Black Dog: HTML5 Helicopter in Hell by Wilbefast

screenshot of Black Dog: A fallen angel flying through hell's caves, burdened by mystical weights, with progress being limited by only slowly regenerating feathers, the many-tongued flying black beast directly behind the angel (interpretation of reviewer)Black Dog is a dark-theme reaction/precision type side-scroller that will run in your modern HTML5/Javascript-supporting browser. It has beautiful minimal original pixel artwork and at the same time...

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Moosader's Text-Based Game Competition [until April 9th 2012]

image labeled "Text-Based Game": ASCII-Art Female with a o_o expression. Buttons saying "Attack" and "Glare" next to her, the first being selectedMoosader - creator, host and leading contributor to OpenArt - also hosts game development competitions on her community's forum.The current theme is "Text-Based Game" and will be over in 9 days, so feel free to join! There are 25 projects in it so far.Make a text-based game, like Zork, Adventure, Nethack,...

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OpenMW 0.13.0 released

Normally qubodup is responsible for this type of games (I have to admit, never liked Morrowind, nor any predecessors or sequels), but since they are doing such a good job of promoting it (and Q is busy), so I will give them their desired news:The OpenMW developers have just released our latest version of OpenMW. I was hoping you could post on Freegamer. Below is our message, feel free to put your own spin on it. Also it looks like the Arx Liberatis folks are almost ready to release their 1.0. Thanks!OpenMW 0.13.0 trailerHot on the heels of 0.12.0,...

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WEB-Proxy

Kata Proxy berasal dari bahasa Latin proximus, yang berarti dekat. Proxy server adalah sebuah server yang membantu kita untuk mempertahankan privasi kita dalam mengakses Internet. Saat kita mengakses Internet menggunakan proxy, web page yang kita kunjungi tidak akan dapat melihat kita. Web page tersebut hanya akan melihat proxy yang kita gunakan saja. Proxy server beroperasi sebagai berikut.Client tersambung dengan proxy server, dan meminta layanan...

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Dev-corner: Flourish Conf

Open Source ConferenceNext weekend you will have the chance to hear a talk by the Linux game development legend Ryan "Icculus" Gordon on open-source tools for game development:Increasingly, the best tools for building games for any platform don't cost a dime. This talk will offer an overview of several of the best open source technologies available to game developers today. Topics will include audio, graphics, filesystems, and scripting. While...

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Dev-corner: On Sexism in the FOSS World

First, a note on relevance:This issue is related to FOSS gaming in that it affects the FOSS community as a whole, and the FOSS gaming community with it.  The fact that it's an overall FOSS issue doesn't render it irrelevant to gaming....and a warning:This is a rant.  I believe it's clear from the blog entry that the feelings I'm expressing here are directed at a small subset of the community and not everyone who happens to read the blog. ...

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Game Artists and Developers: Fill out Freesound's 4-question open survey!

 Freesound survey bannerWhat do you use Freesound for?Do you perceive some shared goals in Freesound user community? If so, which ones?What kinds of sounds are you most interested in?What makes Freesound different from other sound sharing sites?This open survey consists of the four questions above.Please fill it out. This is an opportunity to represent the free and open source game creation community's sound (licensing) needs at the largest...

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Summer of Code: Earn Money Developing Open Source Games

Matt Raykowski, aka sfb, is a community herder for the Ryzom Core project and Summer of Code mentor.Some people may not be familiar with Google's Summer of Code. Annually Google hosts two programs: Summer of Code and Code In. Google Code In (aka GCI) is a contest for 13-18 year olds to engage them in open source that features a variety of tasks and projects for them to complete for points. Google Summer of Code (aka SoC or GSoC) is a program to encourage...

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New Me and My Shadow release

Almost forgot posting about this... somehow our "own" projects here on FreeGameDev.net get somewhat neglected on the blog from time to time...But it's not because we don't care ;) So check this great new trailer for Me and My Shadow: New Me and My Shadow trailerOr head over to the release announcement on our forums to read about the changes in version 0.3 and download it! Don't forget to comment too...

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New RTS releases: 0 A.D. and Zero-K

Hot news of today is the Alpha 9 release of 0 A.D.: 0 A.D. Alpha 9 gameplayMain additions are the Roman faction, a new combat concept and new trading system. The new combat concept allows for a strategic selection of your troops to counter certain units (spearmen are better against cavalry and so on) and the trading systems allows for setting up trade routes etc.Oh and they are still looking for contributers ;)A little bit less hot news, but still quite recent, is the new version 1.0.3.3. of Zero-K, a cool RTS set in the future (if you...

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Trophy 2.0: championship, shop, load/save

Trophy's shopThe top-down racing/shooting game Trophy 2.0 brings championship, shop, key configuration, load/save features and lot of code refactoring. It requires ClanLib 1.0, which unfortunately fails to compile on Arch Linux.If you too can't get this game to run, there's still Bandit Racer for playing in the brows...

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Xonotic 0.6 released

For those not playing with the autobuild releases, I have good news! A new version of the totally FOSS, competitive multiplayer FPS Xonotic has been released.Find the released announcement and download links directly here.The two most important feature additions are a stats tracking system, which can be found via this webpage.And the addition of client side scripted player-models, which probably doesn't say much to the regular user, but from a developer's...

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OpenMW 0.12: Character Animations

image: Sky in OpenMW (scheduled for 0.13)OpenMW 0.12 has been released:This release notably includes NPC and Creature animation, though no A.I. has been implemented, so animations must be activated through console commands. Please review the following:Regressions:Sounds other than music not workingScroll and button background graphics in launcher not working in Linux packageImportant notes:You must remove all old openmw.cfg files in order for the...

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Unknown Horizons Multiplayer Session March 10, 4:00 pm GMT

image: Unknown Horizon's multiplayer menuThere have been six updates on Unknown Horizon's blog this year alone and their latest is an invitation to a multiplayer gaming session.Saturday, March 10, 16:00 GMT (convert to your time zone)You will have to get and compile the development builds for Linux, Mac OS X or Windows but the guidelines are extensive and you can get real-time support via IRC, so don't let that intimidate you. :)images: showing off...

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Arx Libertatis: promising GPL engine for proprietary RPG

Arx Libertatis logoArx Libertatis is the name of the GPLv3-ed Arx Fatalis (proprietary game) engine. It features a unique "draw symbols to cast spells" magic system and has an own scripting engine (described as "a mess, but at least a human readable mess").video: Arx Libertatis status Feb 2012The game engine runs the proprietary game with tolerable lag in some game areas on an ASUS EeePC 1000H netbook on Linux and I am close to completing the...

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TremZ aka Unvanquished 1st alpha released

Hmm... the previously mentioned TremZ project, which btw changed name to "Unvanquished" (which I find much less catchy than the previous name) has released as promised their first alpha on the last day of February.However as I can't get it to run on Linux (nor on Windows for that matter), I will have to rely on forum postings from which I extract that it really is an alpha and you shouldn't get your hopes too high that it is much more than Tremulous...

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