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Admin on Thứ Năm, 28 tháng 3, 2013
Developers of free and open source games!
The Libre Software Meeting in Brussels is
looking for talks about the "Free Gaming World".
An ideal place to introduce your project, talk about how to work with other people on open source game projects and meet other free software developers!
The deadline for submission is 31 March 2013!
Some previous talks, if you're not sure what to expec or what they expect from you:
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Today I have a real "underground & secret" game: no website, no description, no nothing really... just a
forum post and some cool game-play videos:
It seems to be called "Brood Hunter" and is quite obviously a Gloom inspired Quake1 mod.
However given that it most likely used the
GPL Darkplaces Engine (same as
Xonotic) and since game-play looks great, I have to do some wishful thinking here and hope it will be released as an open-source game so that we can work on replacing the remaining non-free Quake1 content at some point :)
Oh and I also
stumbled upon an open-source
Daikatana remake, using a heavily modified Quake1 engine. YES, that
Daikatana!
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Admin on Chủ Nhật, 17 tháng 3, 2013
Jason Rohrer is a quite controversial independent game developer with a track record of thought provoking games. His latest offering (in alpha state for
50% off sale with
public domain source code included)
The Castle Doctrine is a MMO about "burglary and home defense". Better than I could do it here shortly, these two (
1,
2) articles give you an idea what the game is about.
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| Build defenses to protect your family or is it just another puzzle to solve? |
The interesting twist is that you are (can be?) both a home intruder and responsible for building defenses for your own home. In a sense it is thus a player created puzzle solving game if you look at it from a more game design (abstract) point of view. It however also rises some ethical questions about how you deal with the theme of the arms race between intruders and home defenders. In either way, it sounds like a fun game though :)
On an unrelated note, one of the guys behind last year's successful FOSS board game Kickstarter project
A Las Barricadas, is
now looking for financial subscriptions for him to create more FOSS art (CC-by) and to take some art classes the same time. If that sounds like a good way to spend your hard earned cash, check out some of his previous works
here.
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Admin on Thứ Ba, 12 tháng 3, 2013
Are We Alone screenshot: Safe on Earth
Are We Alone - a space game where you travel from planet to planet, between star systems in search of intelligent life - has been released on Github under MIT license.
It was made for
Ludum Dare 22 "alone" and is a quite atmospheric piece.
Content License: Unknown
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Admin on Chủ Nhật, 10 tháng 3, 2013
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| Defending your outpost in Shunned Survivor |
Shunned Survivor is one of the entries for
PyWeek #15 September 2012 "One Way Trip".
In the genre mix between
MMORTS, city building, economy simulation and tower defense game, you control an exiled human, with the apparent goal to get back to earth.
The interaction with other players is quite indirect. You can attack other player's bases and win the "data" resource this way, which you need to perform "research" actions. However, defeating a base does not change it, you simply get the reward and can attack again.
Shunned Survivor Server map
While researching, however, you need to perform in a tower defense minigame, during which your defensive towers can be destroyed. If you succeed, the research was successful. If not, you have to enforce your defenses and try again.
Even though quite a bit of the gameplay time is spent on waiting for resources to be generated by the various resource gathering buildings, I find this game very entertaining and highly recommend you to give it a try.
Code License: CC0Content License: CC0
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Admin on Thứ Tư, 6 tháng 3, 2013
Erebus is a hack & slash role-playing game under heavy development, yet playable with currently three missions.
Features:
- Classic point-n-click style RPG, with dungeons to explore, enemies to fight, NPCs to talk to, sub-quests to complete, scenery to interact with, weapons, treasure and other items to find.
- Also supports Rogue-like keyboard controls.
- Multiple quests (currently three, more will be added as development progresses!)
- Choice of starting characters (currently Barbarian, Elf, Halfling, Ranger, Warrior).
- Start straight into the action - none of this "For your first quest, please find your next door neighbour's pet cat".
- Vector-based world rather than tile-based - so items/scenery can be placed in any position, or aligned in any direction.
- 2D animated graphics, with zoom in/out, and lighting effects.
- Completely free and Open Source - no ads, unlike many free Android apps.
- User interface optimised to work with mouse, keyboard and/or touchscreen.
- Cross-platform - available for Windows, Linux, Nokia Symbian and Android devices.
Code License: GPLv3+Content License: Various (Most
DFSG approved, CC-BY 2.x might be problematic)
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Admin on Chủ Nhật, 3 tháng 3, 2013
A few day ago a much improved version of the 4X space strategy game
FreeOrion was released. Check out this cool set of introduction videos (Part
1,
2,
3):
Most notable additons:
- Very much improved, non-cheating AI. Sometimes experienced 4X players loose.
- Many GUI enhancements and shortcuts.
- Galactopedia expanded with game mechanics articles and many cross-links.
- Batch production of ships now possible.
- Improved sitrep notifications
- Reworked stealth and detection
- Almost everything has been enhanced, reworked, and better balanced.
So go and kick some alien butt ;)
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Admin on Thứ Bảy, 2 tháng 3, 2013
Some of you might remember
Mega Lo Mania back from the days when you could be amazed by PC speaker voice output... so if you spend way too much of your childhood playing that game (like me) you should probably stay clear of the FOSS remake called
Gigalomania!
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| Gigalomania now using LPC sprites |
As the creator
recently stated, it now uses the cool
Liberated Pixels Cup contest sprites, but there is still the need to replace the castle graphics with nicer ones. Maybe *you* can help out with that?
On a related note, the
LPC coding results are finally in, congratulations to the winners! I hope Bart will make a nice review on the quite awesome games here on FG soon.
Other recent updates not to be missed:
That's all for now :)
