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
Galaxy Forces is an open-source moon lander shooter single-/multiplayer game hosted on SourceForge, it is nearly finished. It is unique of its kind in offering global hiscores and achievements. Replays and AI enemies also available. Try it. It plays on Win, Mac and Linux. Continue reading Galaxy Forces: Moon Lander Action!
The very innovative and awesome looking (+ fully FOSS) multiplayer FPS Terminal-Overload got a new release today. Edit: By now there is actually already a 0.4.0 release, get it here. Charged x-jump on the new ETH5 map (3rd person camera turned on) One of the new features is a charged jump that lets one take big leaps to reach good sniping spots or evade an … Continue reading Terminal Overload 0.3 released + support the developer on Patreon
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!
Came across this seemingly fun little game over here, too bad I don’t have a Occulus Rift (yet): Check their page for the Win32 and browser server/client download. Continue reading The Sky of Verdun 3D – dogfight in HTML5
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
Everyone’s favorite clone of worm-warfare, Hedgewars recently got a rather big new release as one of the developers pointed out to us by email. One of the new level themes for Hedgewars 0.9.19 The changes are quite extensive, so instead of failing to summarize them here, check out the above linked quite extensive original release announcement. You can also have a look at this fan-made … Continue reading Hedgewars 0.9.19 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"
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