Warfork Gameplay (livestream – skip ahead 1m20s) Last updated 2019-08-22 (see bottom of this article). The title says it all. Warfork is the revival of Warsow. Warsow is cool (and super hard to master) but does not have servers running and no development ongoing. Warfork is an ironically-named fork of Warsow, has CC0 art assets and is for now only released on Steam. The source supposedly … Continue reading Warsow is now Warfork and on Steam
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!
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
Very nice new movie from the Xonotic community: It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some say too popular) “Minstagib” (one shot kills) and the total conversion mod Overkill (All new player-models and weapons, with team-spawn etc.) are also shortly shown.Not shown are the popular vehicle mod and the recently added lightning gun (still WIP), but you … Continue reading Xonotic community frag movie and other FOSS arena FPS news
You might remember the crowd-sourcing campaign from the beginning of this year to make a fully FOSS remake of a rather unique game. Well, a bit later than promised, but really awesome never the less: Note that this is a really early alpha and most of the art still has placeholder quality. It is quite playable multiplayer game already though, and there is a Linux … Continue reading First public release of Terminal Overload!
The creator of the nice, but pretty niche, freeware game (but with Creative Commons licensed assets) Revenge of the Cats: Ethernet has just informed us that he started a Indiegogo campaign (target US$ 1500) to liberate the game. The current version still runs on an old closed source build of the Torque3D engine, but with the somewhat recent move to MIT licensing, it has now … Continue reading Help to ROTC:Ethernet to become fully open-source
One of the newer engine/game projects I have been following closely is Octaforge. It is basically a fork of Tesseract, which in turn is an graphic improvement project by the makers of the well known Cube2 engine. The main difference with Octaforge is that aims to become a game SDK and platform for easy creation of mods; And one of its prime new features for … Continue reading Progress on Octaforge
I guess quite a few people were waiting for this to finally happen 🙂 Have a look at the release announcement here and the full change-log here. They also did a nice introduction video a few months ago: Haven’t got the chance to try it myself yet, but this is high on my list of open-source games to play! Continue reading Breaking news: The Dark Mod 2.0 stand alone version out now!
Yes, it looks like the developers behind the long running idTech2 based AlienArena are going make a more slower paced & ‘tactical’ spin-off and try to sell it. As before the engine will stay open-source (GPLv2), but the assets for the spin-off will stop being free-as-in-beer. Here is the official launch-trailer of the new update and the alpha demo: Beside the new game-play mode, they … Continue reading New Alien Arena, with included alpha-demo of in development commercial spin-off
Or something like that… because as much as I think FOSS games should cater to the other ermm… 2nd out of three(?) gender, I am not sure if this is meant ironic or not (description of the game Glamour): You are Maddeline, a young princess just turned 16. Now you’re old enough to attend the royal balls and your fairy godmother will help you get … Continue reading Today: Glamour, or how to hide irony about gender stereotypes very well…
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