Looks like battleMETAL will fill some Mechwarrior 2 nostalgia

Just came across this cool video and project which aims to implement a Mecha game and SDK on the Quake1 engine (Darkplaces specifically): You can find more details on their website and the Github repository. Art assets are apparently not available yet due to some non-free placeholders, but I hope this will be changed soon. Also no multiplayer, but that might be possible to fix. … Continue reading Looks like battleMETAL will fill some Mechwarrior 2 nostalgia

DevCorner: Exciting news from the Godot Engine project

The Godot Engine (“the open-source answer to Unity3D”) continues to make exciting progress with the recent stable release of version 2.1. Besides lots of small usability improvements to the GUI, the main new feature is a asset sharing store build right into the editor: This should hopefully result in a lot of extremely easy to use assets, and I am looking forward to seeing a … Continue reading DevCorner: Exciting news from the Godot Engine project

Blackvoxel, an ambitious Minecraft/Factorio mix?

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?

DevCorner: Superpowers HTML5 collaborative game maker open-sourced!

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!

Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!

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!

Xonotic 0.8.1 released & related news

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

Top Futuristic Open Source Racing Games on Linux

F-Zero and Wipeout set the standard for the futuristic sci-fi racing games genre and inspire many game developers. Over the years, four projects of that genre were started and developed to a playable state that are now open source code: (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); H-Craft by Irrgheist is a free sci-fi racer with IAP on Android. It is built with the Irrlicht engine and … Continue reading Top Futuristic Open Source Racing Games on Linux

Scorched 3D Portable – Action Game 3D Awesome For Pc!!!

Scorched 3D is the extended version of Worms, Scorched 3D battlefields brought to the ocean waves and the vast snowy regions, all of which are shown in the background of colorful 3D graphics.       Motion camera 360 degrees, zoom and rotate features allow you to detect enemies, “catch“ take all actions and of course the giant shells menacing. Scorched 3D encourage you modify … Continue reading Scorched 3D Portable – Action Game 3D Awesome For Pc!!!

War Chess 3D: The sport of chess – International wits, now available on PC!!!!

3D War Chess is a breakthrough line of chess game. With 3D effects turn boring pieces of real soldiers with the “special moves” extremely beautiful. extremely impressive, War Chess.     Take a “war“ on the flag football field, on the court less than 10 to choose from, which also extremely magnificent, you can only admire the thoi.Trong War Chess 3D game you can choose … Continue reading War Chess 3D: The sport of chess – International wits, now available on PC!!!!