Gosh that tumbleweed is clogging up the blog! I logged into github today and saw this highly active project in my feed called The Yearning. A hybrid singleplayer / multiplayer game about spider drones and the meaning of life. If that doesn’t mean too much to you (it didn’t to me!) then fortunately you can check out this gif of some gameplay. Lots of other … Continue reading Yearning for more blog posts
Great news from our friends of the SuperTuxKart project! Read all the details on their latest blog-post here. They also made a nice new trailer showing off a more unusual game-mode: Clearly this project has come a long way and looks better with every release! So grab your copy over at their fancy new website. Continue reading SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 released & new website
Seem like some people want to revive the old QuakeExpo tradition this year, which is after all the 20th anniversary of Quake1:https://qexpo2016.com/ Booth pre-registration started on the 18th of June, and the for those that wonder what it is all about: If you are a qexpo old-timer: The format is virtual ‘booths’ set up for a limited number of days just like the past. But … Continue reading QuakeExpo2016 16-30th of July, register your virtual booth now!
Check out this interesting (somewhat recently GPLv3 re-licensed) game Blackvoxel: As you can see it has some interesting mechanic which they call “Molecular Voxel Interaction Engine“. As seen in the trailer above, it basically allows you to automate crafting, resulting in interesting “programmable” factory setups.Of course this might sound a bit too much like actual work and not fun… but given the big fan scene … Continue reading Blackvoxel, an ambitious Minecraft/Factorio mix?
Remember Justin Nichol’s amazing Portrait Kickstarter? He’s up to no good again: Horde of Cuteness! is an ongoing crowdfunded high resolution character icon collection and the indiegogo campaign will add 2 heroes, 5 monsters, and 3 boss monsters chosen by the backers. All the characters will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license, and will be made available as .pngs with transparent backgrounds, … Continue reading Cute Character Crowdfunding (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
First off (and you probably read it elsewhere before): The awesome Godot game engine got a really awesome 2.0 release a few weeks ago. It also got independent of it’s original developers (who stay active in development), and the first larger commercial game with it was released on Steam just a few days ago. Fresh of the press is a FOSS release of an pretty … Continue reading DevCorner: Atomic Game Engine MIT (Urho3D fork) and Godot 2.0
Great news for HTML5 game developers: a few days ago Superpowers was released under the ISC license. What is Superpowers? A game development platform (an integrated editor but you can collaborate in realtime online; how cool is that! 😀 ) for making HTML5 games using TypeScript (a superset of Javascript). But you will also be able to work with other languages, so far support for … Continue reading DevCorner: Superpowers HTML5 collaborative game maker open-sourced!
Lasers, rockets, shields, health regeneration, pixels. You know. The good stuff. Just nicely packaged with levels of just the right duration and hardness, persistent upgrades, shaders, reverb… Two buttons are enough to play, since that was one of the themes of Ludum Dare #34, in which the game came #74 among 1638 jam entries. Super Space Invader Review Supser Space Invader was made with LÖVE (v0.9) and thus … Continue reading Best Open Source Top-Down Space Shooter : Super Space Invader
Over ten years after the last stable release of SuperTux (0.1.3 released July 2005) the SuperTux team have announced the release of the first stable version in the Milestone 2 series. Compared to 0.1.3, this release features: a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, … support for translations in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations Bonus Island III, a for now … Continue reading SuperTux 0.4.0 Milestone 2
Marbles have fascinated the population of the blue marble for centuries. Today, we take a look at three digital variants that are open source and playable cross-platform. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Veraball The newest addition to the group of open source ball-rolling games is minimal and was made using the Godot engine. Rock and jazz music accompanies your through the only two levels so … Continue reading 3 Super Monkey Ball Alternatives – Open Sphere Rolling Games
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