Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now most of it’s artistic content under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license (with a few remaining but clearly marked ones under CC-by-ND). Also updated particle effects in Warsow 2.0 You can find more screen-shots in the above link and the … Continue reading Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!
The first flipper pinball machine was released 68 years and 1 month ago and yet there is only a handful of open source, cross-platform pinball video games available! Oh well, let’s take them for a spin, shall we?UPDATE Dec 1st, 2015: 1. Added Libre Pinball, see Honorable Mentions below. 2. Added conclusion section.UPDATE Jul 17th, 2016: Updated Emilia Pinball links Nexus Pinball Nova Pinball Gameplay Started only a month ago, Nova … Continue reading Top 3 Open Source Pinball Games
Wymrsun 1.6.0 was recently released (announcement on our forums and on Steam). Wyrmsun is inspired by the original Warcraft games and many reviewers on Steam compare it to Warcraft II. The project continues a steady development pace which is always a good sign so I encourage RTS fans to try it out. Wyrmsum Naev 0.6.1 has been released. After a long period without releases until … Continue reading Naev, Valyria Tear, Wyrmsun, ReTux
So, as I sometimes peruse various forums, the occasional gem pops up. This is one of the best hidden gems in Open Source gaming. Anticube 2 is a map for Tesseract / Cube 2 that is inspired by the game Antichamber and NaissanceE. If you are unfamiliar with those, that means it is an abstract FPS puzzle game where things are not quite what they … Continue reading Anticube 2 – a game within a game
Great news for people who like GGGGames 😉 The author of the new action roguelike dungeon crawler kind of darwen mayham game Gorynlich was so kind to inform us his game. It comes with this funny trailer (and some great programmer’s art :p ): The code is licensed under the LGPL, while the assets are only freeware right now. But the author seems to be … Continue reading Games with G (Gorynlich & Gigalomania)
Stunt Rally 2.6 has been released, with new features including pacenotes (i.e. corner speed/severity hints) and a rewritten sound system with reverberation (changelog). Stunt Rally is a sandbox racing game with a huge number of tracks (172 in 2.6) and lots of cars. It was originally forked from VDrift and features Ogre3D as a graphics engine instead of the custom (and less sophisticated) graphics engine … Continue reading Stunt Rally 2.6 and Irrlamb 0.2
A couple of long standing open source game projects have received significant updates. OpenDungeons, an open source dungeon management game, has seen release 0.6 make it out the door. Release highlights from the changelog: New spell logic with cooldown, targets and cost management Fancy new spells: Heal, Explosion and Haste Particle effects! Reworked library logic and made research order configurable New creature overlays that show … Continue reading OpenDungeons and FreeOrion updates plus ReTux
The joys of programming – hours spent scratching one’s head whilst trying to figure out why the seemingly correct code does not produce correct results. Hi, Charlie here. I used to post often. Where was I? Ah, yes, this nugget of brain fudgery from the VDrift forums posted by NaN: So I’ve spent some time today try to figure out why cars are still flying … Continue reading Devcorner: Macros Are Evil
For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch (via the autobuilds), the Xonotic developers have released a new version with various smaller changes and new official maps. From the user “Antibody” (known for his duel commentary videos) comes this nice video overview of the new features: (please note that due to video capture performance reasons the graphic settings are pretty low, … Continue reading Xonotic 0.8.1 released & related news
Purely by chance, I found an obviously abandoned but still fun to play mini tower defense with a skippable tutorial level and two playable missions, beautiful graphics and performance settings. To be a master is to spam en mass So you place towers and the shoot enemies that move towards your base. I know this! Being an impatient player type, I skipped past the tutorial … Continue reading Mini Sci-Fi Open Source Tower Defense Game
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