LanPower Game Key v2

On 2. July, the second Free-as-in-freedom USB Game Key will be released by the French-language based team LanPower.

The GameKey light serie 2 is a compilation of portable FOSS games, mostly compatible with both Windows and Linux.

English, German, French, Italian and Spanish translations are available for the GUI. If you would like to add your translation to the mix, here are the translation files: English | French. (contact: asso.lanpower A✜T free.fr)

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Sound Walk #1: BOFH

This is a 0:46 soundwalk of BOFH. Music not turned off.



[download ogg vorbis]

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Naev Sound and Xonotic Map Devolution

Spoiler alert regarding a video of a NAEV mission that shows off the sound capacities of the game. The project relies on OpenAL Soft.

You should come for the sound [10MB vorbis rip]* or for the HD version.

Effects to notice:

• Positional sound (basic for OpenAL)

• Doppler Effect (depends on velocity)

• Air absorption factor (sounds like you’re under water)

• Reverb (also helps make it sound like you’re underwater)

• Speed of sound changes (depends on nebula density – also for sounding underwater)

* It'd be great if more project took so much care of audio licensing so there could be f-a-i-f game sound walks. Great distraction from urban noise. Game soundtracks are disturbing though mostly.

An amazing screens-video of the different stages of modernizing/Xonoticisizing CBCTF1 - Space CTF to Newtonian Nightmare was posted.

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FlightGear at LinuxTag 2011

I took a quick look at the Gluon Talk and the games booth at LinuxTag 2011 and thought I'd share some pictures at least. :)

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Remember Iris2?

Iris2

We haven't typed a word about Iris2 in over two years! There are quite some new bugfixes to the 3D UO client.

The latest stable release (rev 3395) is one week old.

Iris2 was updated to use Ogre 1.7.2, it now runs stable on Windows.

This old video is still pretty much up-to date

The project mainly suffers from lack of community interest and aid in creating or converting free assets or hosting servers. :) A few trees seem to be hard enough (but there's more).

RunUO appears to be a popular server suite.

I made a feed of the Iris2 wiki news.

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Open Source Games Still Alive

Octower!

BAM! Word War Vi runs on Pandora! (Have a feed!)

Split-screen!

BAM! Egoboo alive, kicking and now has a pretty website! Lazza made a feed!

Code!

BAM! jClassicRPG development continues!

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Gluon Creator

The Gluon project is

1. A 2D game creation IDE
2. A game player which is supposed to become cross-platform, including mobiles and tablets
3. A site/community/server which will feature ratings, tags, avatars, achievements, etc.

Read more about the vision here and about the history in this Amarok blog post.

Gluon team member Leinir will appear at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany with his English-language talk Social Game Distribution. Hm... anybody got spare tickets? [got some thanks to ben!] :)

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