The amazing libre 3D modeling tool Blender needs no introductions at this point. Suffice to say that what began as a humble Free Software alternative to most heavy-duty proprietary 3D software is slowly becoming a new industry standard. The newly released version 2.80 is a testimonial of this. The new release adds not only a much needed upgrade to the UI, but along comes an … Continue reading Blender 2.80 released, gets industry sponsorship
Sintel The Game Alpha 0.2 was released years ago but you might have missed it, just as have I. The three levels have the following features: 1. Snow landscape, puzzles, no fights, no ending (I think)2. Desert landscape, no puzzles, 2 enemy types to fight, no ending (I think)3. Village/port environment, one puzzle with one variation, 1 enemy type to fight (maybe more), has an … Continue reading Sintel The Game has 3 playable Levels (Alpha 2)
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
While not necessary only for FOSS games, all will be done with the Blender3D included game engine (BGE). Check out their website here and/watch the video below: The overall theme will be announce on the 20th when the contest starts. Continue reading Blender Game Making Challenge starts on the 20th of this month
UPDATE: First set of files has been released (license CC0) and on my advise he added some stretch goals: 600$ > 3 game ready Enemies! (models, sfx, animations, effects) 650$ > Dynamic optimized lighting system! (rich dynamic lighting with low resource usage ) 750$ > 4 new weapons!(model, texture, sound) 850$ > Triple the amount of the actual props! (interactive objects,explosibles, new walls, doors windows … Continue reading DevCorner: Liberate some great Blender game art!
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