“Be sure you are right then go ahead!” Oom Bob is ready. One of my goals is to have each of my remaining collections of figures present a different sort of gaming experience. In part this can be done by different historical periods and different levels or battle but it also includes styles of gaming. This tends to go against my instinctive urge to use … Continue reading Mobilization
The other day I was enjoying a battle report on Maudlin Jack Tar’s Projects and Procrastination when I was hit by a wave of nosatalgia for my old Morschauser inspired games and a sudden realization that I no longer had a similar game or even a Portable Wargame style game ready to go. Time to get on that. Atlantican irregulars preparing for war.(mostly Scruby from Historifig) In … Continue reading Filling a Hole in the Line(up)
Top ten FPS that are FOSS Time for another overweening list – the SEO godesses demand it! Tremulous has 1.1 stable, 1.2 dev and 1.3 third party dev versions. It’s a mess. Getting bots to run is a mess. Yet I love this game. I am only capable of playing 50% (can’t handle moving aliens at all) yet I had the most fun building bases … Continue reading 10 Best Open Source FPS Games
What a ballad could have been told of the stand of Tribune Johan and the White Cohort. Alas, no bards were available after all and my inner bard is too tired to weave a narrative. All I can offer tonight is a quick recap with technical details. Turn 8..ish? The game is 1/2way through. All forces are now on hand. Duke Stephen has been wounded … Continue reading In the Absence of a Story Teller
Warfork Gameplay (livestream – skip ahead 1m20s) Last updated 2019-08-22 (see bottom of this article). The title says it all. Warfork is the revival of Warsow. Warsow is cool (and super hard to master) but does not have servers running and no development ongoing. Warfork is an ironically-named fork of Warsow, has CC0 art assets and is for now only released on Steam. The source supposedly … Continue reading Warsow is now Warfork and on Steam
Never a bard around when you want one. Did the square stand? Did reinforcements arrive in time? Who went first next turn? Hopefully someone will write up the tale soon! Continue reading Rumours of War
It was too hot to work this afternoon…..time for an impromptu solo game! Earl Helgin the Saxon leads an allied raiding party home. Only a band of local British levies bars the way. After several ho’s and hum’s I settled on my Elastolins and the Age of Arthur and scenario 13, “Escape”, from Thomas’s One Hour wargames. OK, so now that Minnow has left, we … Continue reading You Shall Not Pass!
Looks like FOSS game development with Godot is a breeze 🙂 SuperStarfighter is a fast-paced local party game for up to 4 players. Outmaneuver and shoot your opponents in a 2d top-down arena, and become an intergalactic champion! Get it on Itch.io or find the source code here. Hat-tip to GoL. For commenting please visit our forums. Continue reading SuperStarfighter, a local multiplayer game made with Godot
Bless the internet, and, I suspect, the blogosphere. About 15 years ago, I bought three Doug Miller Landsknecht figures (yes the author of the old Osprey Landsknect book), through the Michigan Toy Soldier Company if memory serves. I then found Doug’s old website on line but by the time I had spare funds, it was gone. This spring I was surprised to receive an email … Continue reading They’re Back! Doug Miller 40mm Landsknechts are back!
Shoot Your Goo is (despite its name) a family friendly puzzle platformer made in just 48h for the GMTK Game Jam 2019. It could be described as a mix of Angry Birds and mini-golf, but see for yourself: The source-code can be found here, and you can head over to InsideQC to discuss with the creators. The team who made this has become quite proficient … Continue reading Shoot Your Goo, fun puzzle platformer made with FTEQW in 48h!
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