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!
The self described open-source rogue-like survivalcraft / driving game in a sci-fi zombie apocalypse has successfully reached its goal on Kickstarter, and one of the developers will now be able to work on it full-time for a few months to implement for example a back-end for proper graphics. But see and hear about it yourself: The first stretch-goal is close too, with 12 days remaining … Continue reading Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, funded!
Lost Sky is a PyGame-based Tactical J-RPG that runs on Linux, OS X and Windows. To play on a system that has mercurial and pygame installed, run: hg clone https://bitbucket.org/featheredmelody/lost-sky-project-publiccd lost-sky-project-public/Story\ of\ a\ Lost\ Sky/chmod +x srpg.py./srpg.py Lost Sky screenshots Video: Lost Sky Gameplay: Tactical jRPG on Linux [PyGame] Story of a Lost Sky is a Turn Based Strategy RPG with gameplay that is similar … Continue reading Lost Sky Tactical J-RPG [PyGame]
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"
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
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