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Best Open Source Top-Down Space Shooter : Super Space Invader

Lasers, rockets, shields, health regeneration, pixels. You know. The good stuff. Just nicely packaged with levels of just the right duration and hardness, persistent upgrades, shaders, reverb… Two buttons are enough to play, since that was one of the themes of Ludum Dare #34, in which the game came #74 among 1638 jam entries. Super Space Invader Review Supser Space Invader was made with LÖVE (v0.9) and thus … Continue reading Best Open Source Top-Down Space Shooter : Super Space Invader

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Mini Sci-Fi Open Source Tower Defense Game

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

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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

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Torque3D seems to finally get a Linux port!

Following the release of the Torque3D engine under the MIT license (latest release 3.5 here), there was a lot of back and forth regarding a port to Linux (the engine actually used to have a good Linux port, but that one was dropped a few years back). At some point there was even an official Kickstarter crowed-funding attempt, which however failed to reach the estimated … Continue reading Torque3D seems to finally get a Linux port!

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Linux Game Awards voting open now!

Quietly in the background a group of open-source and Linux enthusiast websites (full disclosure: including FreeGamer 😉 ) has developed a new platform for promoting open-source games: http://www.linuxgameawards.org/ One of its regular features will be a monthly award and a related promotion drive for the winner on all affiliated sites. As a start, our community came up with the first 10 nominees for the January … Continue reading Linux Game Awards voting open now!

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