If you follow our planet, this is no news, but the recent advances in graphics, networking a other stuff from SuperTuxKart are quite nice. This is basically a result of them being accepted to this years Google Summer of Code. Not showing most of the new features yet is this nice video featuring the mascot of OpenGameArt.org as a new player character: But their blog … Continue reading GSoC 2013 pushes SuperTuxKart forward!
My luck… I do the reluctant once in two weeks post to keep the blog alive, and almost the next day is an unexpected big new release of a cool game 😉 Ahh well… Stunt Rally 2.1 seems to have ventured into even less realistic spheres now: Awesome alien worlds in Stunt Rally 2.1 A lot more (mostly more conventional) new screenshots can be seen … Continue reading Stunt Rally 2.1 released
Zero-K, the probably coolest fully FOSS offspring of the SpringRTS engine has seen at least two new releases since it last crossed my mind to check their page… a pity actually as the new features of version 1.1.7.0 (and prior) seem quite nice.And for those not into the game (yet), there is now a channel with commented multi-player matches like this one: Just a pity … Continue reading Much activity for Zero-K and some other news
Given the often quite small online communities around FOSS games, one has to become creative on how to keep players and attract new ones. Regular tournaments are one of those good ideas, albeit one that is a lot of work organizing.One of the games that is still struggling to attract a stable player base is Unvanquished, even though the game is based on Tremulous and … Continue reading Unvanquished summer tournament
After an agonizingly long wait, I am happy to report that a new official release of the premier FOSS arena FPS Xonotic is available to the masses. Here is a nice (but slightly older) game-play video for those not having played Xonotic yet: Changes are quite extensive compared to the last official release… most notably an extensive update the the CTF mode, some neat additional … Continue reading Xonotic 0.7 released
Here is another post about a project I found in the far ends of the internet (“here be dragons”), but which seems really promising never the less. But first of all a disclamer by the original creator: The screenshots you are about to see are not yet an eye candy, they’re rather to be seen as a ‘proof of concept’ with lots of crappy placeholders. … Continue reading WIP "OpenFlashpoint"
Today I bring you news of yet another rather low profile Darkplaces engine game (e.g. the same engine that runs Xonotic), called Dead Morning: As you can see in these other, more game-play oriented videos (1, 2, 3), it seems to be quite heavily influenced by another recent 1st person horror game… The website mentions a fully open-source release at the end of this year, … Continue reading Dead Morning, an open-source horror game
(Yes, that is a rather thin common ground to combine these two news in one post 😉 ). Anyways, today there is one for the “FreeGamers”, aka those that are looking for more or less playable games:There is a new release (2.0) of StuntRally, and I guess I can quote Twain here too: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated! Because it looks … Continue reading Two times (0.)2.0
The really nice looking modern warfare mod for 0 A.D. is steadily improving: Rogue Republic’s Russian buildings You can now also check out their blog and facebook page, and to quote one of the main developers: With hope of finding a proficient 0 A.D. coder So please help out these guys, if you know some Javascript and are willing to learn how to code for … Continue reading Updates from Rogue Republic, that modern warfare 0 A.D. mod
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