Top ten FPS that are FOSS Time for another overweening list – the SEO godesses demand it! Tremulous has 1.1 stable, 1.2 dev and 1.3 third party dev versions. It’s a mess. Getting bots to run is a mess. Yet I love this game. I am only capable of playing 50% (can’t handle moving aliens at all) yet I had the most fun building bases … Continue reading 10 Best Open Source FPS Games
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
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…
*hrmmpf* New FreeOrion 0.43 release. Unvanquished Alpha 18. Some news from the standalone idTech4 Hexen remake. Open-source reimplementation of Caesar3 engine picked up again. OpenMW 0.25.0 released. New Ya3dag 1.42 release. Files of the Open(GameArt)Bundle released under CC0. tl;dr: Just click on the links above :p Continue reading Assorted news #1024
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
In my never ending search for a FOSS game engine that is usable for game modding with out having to reinvent the wheel (nor requiring to be a C++ code master) & having decent tools for content creation (because I am spoiled and think that is a minimum requirement for a game engine) I have become quite disillusioned lately. That is because *spoiler alert* sadly … Continue reading DevCorner: Underapprechiated game engines
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