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
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
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
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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