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)
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
Galaxy Forces is an open-source moon lander shooter single-/multiplayer game hosted on SourceForge, it is nearly finished. It is unique of its kind in offering global hiscores and achievements. Replays and AI enemies also available. Try it. It plays on Win, Mac and Linux. Continue reading Galaxy Forces: Moon Lander Action!
Godot winter icon A game dev jam to create a winter-themed open source game was community-initiated at the Godot forums. The (vote-determined) winner will get a budget of USD 50 to have donated to an open source project of their choice. What is Godot? Godot editor Godot is a game engine. No wait, it’s actually a game development IDE with its own Lua-based scripting language. As … Continue reading Godot Winter Game Jam
Thanks to Tangram Games for pointing out to us that they just released version 1.0 of their local multiplayer game Duck Marines. They describe it as: Duck Marines is a cross-platform free software PC remake of Sonic Team’s ChuChu Rocket.Duck Marines attempts to recreate the magic from the local multiplayer of ChuChu Rocket while adding new elements like mini games, a level editor, colorful pixel … Continue reading Duck Marines, FOSS remake of ChuChu Rocket
Two interesting projects I recently came across: 1. KeeperRL: Description from the author: KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress inspired dungeon simulator built on top of roguelike mechanics. My vision is that you are a Sauron-like character, searching for ultimate knowledge of destruction. What makes the game different from other RTS is that you can, and are encouraged to, control your main character … Continue reading KeeperRL and OpenIG
youtube.com/watch?v=dCOHjERswGw Code Combat is a javascript programming learning IDE wrapped in a delicious cute RPG/2D RTS packaging that runs in the browser without any plugins. They recently announced their open source/free art release. The current set of Code Combat tutorials starts with directional movement and activation of pre-programmed behavior, continues with coordinate movement and targeting and conditional behavior and continues towards prediction calculations. Editor GUI … Continue reading Code Combat: Open Source Javascript Tutorial Gamification (In A Good Way)
Merry Christmas from FreeGamer! As a nice present from the 0 A.D. team, the new Alpha 15 Osiris was released today: Lots of great new features and especially multiplayer games should be now much easier to do with hosting improvements and a lobby for browsing available games. Another open-source RTS engine (using Mono/C# though) has also released a new version: OpenRA. Currently it is still … Continue reading December RTS updates
The great roguelike RPG Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is available as a new version (1.1.0) nicknamed “Full Steam Ahead”. Here is a slightly older trailer for version 1.0.5.: Release highlights: New necromancer tree: Animus All achievements now feature beautiful 128×128 images Improved Alchemist interaction with its golem Tons of fixes and balance adjustements Many improvements for addon creators, including a way to enable debug mode … Continue reading Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) version 1.1.0 and Steam edition
We have mentioned in the past a few times that it is a common misconception that FOSS games need to be also “freeware”, and in fact the opposite can be quite beneficial to the overall development of a game or the engine it is build on. The 2D jump & run Frogatto & Friends has been for sale on mobile platforms for a while now, … Continue reading Frogatto & Friends looking to be "greenlit" on Steam
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