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Admin on Thứ Tư, 5 tháng 2, 2014
Two interesting projects I recently came across:
1.
KeeperRL:
Description from the author:
KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress inspired dungeon simulator built on top of roguelike mechanics. My vision is that you are a Sauron-like character, searching for ultimate knowledge of destruction. What makes the game different from other RTS is that you can, and are encouraged to, control your main character and lead your minions to an open war. The characters use equipment, scrolls, potions, spells, and other things you would expect in a roguelike. Combat is turn-based and very tactical. The whole world is procedurally generated, and there is adventure mode too.
See a video of the (still in ASCII graphics) action here and the GPL licensed code
here. Latest development release can be downloaded
here (Win&Linux).
2.
OpenIG:
A real classic is being reimplemented as
OpenIG (
follow the development blog here). Interestingly the original developers have granted the rights to all the game's data to be freely (as in beer I assume) distributed with the new Java based engine.
Time to jump into the
4X games again ;)
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Admin on Thứ Hai, 3 tháng 2, 2014
I tend to focus a bit on the 3D side of things, but the recently open-sourced
Torque2D (note the "2") engine is pretty cool too:
And in fact it got a whole lot better in the last couple of weeks with it being ported to
Linux,
Android and your
browser (through Mozilla's
emscripten).
So if you are thinking about developing an open-source 2D game targeting multiple platforms, Torque2D has just became a serious contender.
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Admin on Thứ Hai, 27 tháng 1, 2014
It's time for another installment of the somewhat bi-monthly Linux Game Awards:
The list of nominees is again quite interesting, so choose your favorite.
This months winner was
0 A.D. by the way... I guess we need to increase the promotion efforts a bit in case you weren't aware...
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Admin on Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 1, 2014
I mentioned the nice developments on the
Torque3D OpenGL and Linux ports a
few weeks back, and now it seems like it is getting even more serious:
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| Planned platforms of Torque3D |
Now don't spill your beer just yet, as this is just the
proposal the developer makes for a crowd-funding building up on his great previous Linux/OpenGL work.
One of the first (hopefully soon to be) FOSS games that could benefit from this, is the currently also looking for
crowd-funding RoTC abstract FPS. Only 9 days left, but they made another good increase in the last couple of days, so it is still possible to reach their goal of $1500. In fact the older (mostly closed source) version
was also recently updated and you can try it on some new servers.
The (more or less friendly) fork
GREED tech MIT that aims to make a full FPS development kit out of Torque3D also
seems to make some interesting progress, so it looks quite bright development wise for now :)
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Admin on Thứ Hai, 20 tháng 1, 2014
Came across this seemingly fun little game over
here, too bad I don't have a Occulus Rift (yet):
Check their page for the Win32 and browser server/client download.
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Admin on Thứ Hai, 6 tháng 1, 2014
Code Combat is a javascript programming learning IDE wrapped in a delicious cute RPG/2D RTS packaging that runs in the browser without any plugins. They recently
announced their open source/free art release.
The current set of Code Combat tutorials starts with directional movement and activation of pre-programmed behavior, continues with coordinate movement and targeting and conditional behavior and continues towards prediction calculations.
Editor GUI
There is an editor, officially described as "broken". I can confirm that the text editor was slow when I tried using it. :)
All in all, a very exciting project. I have noticed a few possible drawbacks so far:
- It's not yet clear which parts will not remain proprietary. It looks like the excellent humor (writing) unfortunately will do so (legal page).
- The music tends to be too exciting to code to.
- There's a CLA requirement for contributing.
What do you think? Persuaded to work on a HTML5 game yourself perhaps, seeing that this performs okay? :)
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Admin on Thứ Tư, 1 tháng 1, 2014
Hello 2014 and happy new year to everyone!
One of the new things for this year will be the regular
Linux Game Awards done by various Linux and FOSS gaming site (and which has been spearheaded by the great
LGDB).
And the first winner is:
The votes have been quite clear, but our friends from
SuperTuxKart got a very respectable 2nd place:
You can expect some further promotional news coming up this month for 0 A.D. so stay tuned :)
