Lips of Suna 0.6 and other RPG news

So my recent rant resulted in a lively discussion about ARPGs, but sadly not really in any contributions or new contributors for Summoning Wars so far... but maybe that was too much to hope for ;)Anyways, another project I mentioned was just recently updated:Lips of Suna is now available as Version 0.6 (release notes on our forums) and this release marks the first official release with OGRE3D as the rendering engine. In my rant I dissed that rendering...

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Dev-corner: JUICE up your game

I just happened to come across this nice presentation, and I guess a lot of FOSS games could also take this as a valuable advise: Juice it or lose itThe "game" they are presenting is playable in your browser by the way, try it here (hit esc for the menu).Oh and believe it or not, source-code is available too ;)So don't forget to JUICE it real go...

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DNT 0.9: Map Editor, Art Asset/Game Content Re-Use and Open Source Game Project Infrastructure

images: DNT 0.9 scenes and editor shotsVideo: DNTMapEditor - Using skorpio cave tileset [download]DccNiTghtmare (DNT) is a 3D single-player RPG "in a satirical post-apocalyptical world", which encourages suggestions to be posted on their forum.Version 0.9 has been released not long ago, which on the gameplay-side appears to mainly bring new models and audio. We have missed quite a few versions here on Free Gamer though. See the changelog for...

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Node Reviver: Open Source Ludum Dare Puzzle Prototype (GPLv3/CC-BY-SA 3.0)

image: Node Reviver main screen video: Node Reviver 1.0 Gameplay Video Game development jams bring many lines of usually dirty code that power often innovative new implementations of various mechanics and rules. Ludum Dare requires source to be visible but neither code nor art has to be freely licensed.I believe that the histories of TuxKart/SuperTuxKart, Warzone 2100 and OpenArena show that maintenance can be one of the strengths of the...

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OpenGOO and Using Inkscape or Blender for Editing Maps/Levels

Building bridges in OpenGOOvideo: New Physics in OpenGOOYou may remember that in the first Humble Indie Bundle, World of Goo was not open-sourced. Well, there is an active open source clone called OpenGOO being developed. It uses OpenGL, Box2D and is GPLv3-licensed.Basic layers of level creation in OpenGOOA Shotgun Debugger level viewed in InkscapeThere are instructions available for creating levels. Inkscape is used for that purpose, just like...

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Good FOSS 3D action RPGs, nowhere to be found?

Today I got a small rant:So there are a few really prominent types of games which ought to have their FOSS representatives, right?Ok, well a few like epic story driven single-player games will probably never show up due to inherent problems to develop such games through the FOSS method, but besides that lets have a look what we got:Good and playable FOSS multi-player FPS games under active development? Check! (Xonotic, RedEclipse and several...

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Last day to support the LPC!

While we are talking about crowd-funded game-dev assets:The Liberated Pixel Cup has almost reached its funding goal, but today is the last day to contribute... so think about the poor captured pixels and dona...

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Professional Car Sounds Crowdfunding for Public Domain

~5% of David's Merceds' sounds will be donated to the public domainAt the time of this post, USD363 353 are missing and 8 days are left for TrackTimeAudio's Mercedes Sound Recording Kickstarter Project to be crowdfunded.In a recent update, it was announced, that 5 to 10% of the more than 200 resulting sounds will become freely available.Free, open source projects that could profit from this include TORCS, Speed Dreams, Trigger Rally, Stunt Rally,...

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OpenMW 0.14: Changelog Video (Commented)

OpenMW 0.14 has been released [blog announcement] half a month ago.I'm a fan of commented video changelogs and highly recommend theirs (embedded below)!As an experiment, I created an audio-only version [ogg Vorbis, 4m12s, 3M] using youtube-dl, ffmpeg and sox, in case you prefer that over YouTube.video: OpenMW 0.14 Commented Change...

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Dust Racing: high speed, Qt-based, cross-platform, with editor

Four Dust Racing screenshots (not split-screen!), pink player against yellow AI carsDust Racing (Dustrac) is a tile-based, cross-platform 2D racing game written in Qt (C++) and OpenGL. Dustrac comes with a Qt-based level editor for easy level creation. A separate engine, MiniCore, is used for physics modeling. CMake is used as the build system.Planting trees on the road in Dustrac's Qt-based level editorGraphics are SVG-based (sources included)...

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Cube Train, Frogatto development and LPC

Today is another session of: "Look what I found in my FG spam folder" ;) But this time I am actually adding a lot of nice other stuff to it, so that it is almost a "dev-corner" post!But first things first... the frogatto developers made us aware that there is a new game based on their really nice 2D engine, called Cube Trains:Cube Trains Beta gameplayNote that, just like frogatto, the final version will cost a few pennies, but the engine is totally FOSS and the current Beta is still free to download.This seems to fit to the general idea of the...

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GameLV: Completely Free, Open Source Point And Click Post-Soviet Adventure Game

Post-Soviet Adventure's protagonist cleaning up the inventoryThe story of GameLV: Adventure Game in Post Soviet Environment (Post-Soviet Adventure) begins with your dog having gone missing and your only lead being a meat product factory. For about one hour you point-and-click through pre-rendered environments, hunt pixels, read humorous descriptions and dialogues to reach a resolution.I for one appreciate the humor in...

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Function Angka Terbilang (Visual Basic)

Angka terbilang adalah salah satu proses perubahan angka menjadi huruf yang sesuai dengan apa yang kita tulis, proses ini memerlukan satu bentuk penulisan fungsi tersendiri dimana pemanggilan fungsi tersebut ketika ada proses pengisian data dalam satu objek yang dituju baru ada konfersi nilai angka rupiah menjadi huruf sesuai dengan objek yang ada, ssaya sedikit berbagai dengan anda bagaimana cara menulis sorce code nya dalam Visual basic, Begini...

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Edit Document di Pdf (PDF FOXSIT)

Jangan bingung dan panik jika kiranya ada menemui dokumen yang tersimpan dalam pdf dan anda akan mengedit dari file pdf tersebut, ada sebuah software yang mungkin gak asing lagi bagai orang orang yang sering mengedit pdf yaitu pdf foxsit. Apakah anda ingin mencoba mengedit pdf silakan download soft PDF Foxsit diS...

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Sistem Informasi Sekolah Dasar

Salah satu sarana untuk meningkatkan kinerja, efektifitas serta efesiensi waktu adalah penggunaan komputer. Setiap instansi atau pun sekolah dalam melakukan pengolahan data di era ini tidak lepas dari komputer, mungkin salah satu software yang anda pakai adalah ms office excell dimana banyak di gunakan untuk rekap data yang katagorinya memerlukan perhitungan dan rumus rumus matematikan lainnya. Mungkin dengan ini anda merasa cukup tapi apakah anda...

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Terasology - YAMC or not?

YAMC? Yet another Minecraft clone??? Well Terasology (previously called "Moving Blocks") sure looks like one: Terasology alpha gameplayBut besides looking like a pretty good YAMC, it actually promises to deviate from the boring Minecraft routine and mentions the pretty well liked games Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper as inspirations for its planned game-play :)Code is under the Apache license, however the current pixel textures are non-free. But if this takes off, those should be relatively easy to replace with really free ones ;)Oh and you...

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