Updates from Rogue Republic, that modern warfare 0 A.D. mod

The really nice looking modern warfare mod for 0 A.D. is steadily improving:Rogue Republic's Russian buildingsYou can now also check out their blog and facebook page, and to quote one of the main developers:With hope of finding a proficient 0 A.D. coderSo please help out these guys, if you know some Javascript and are willing to learn how to code for 0 A.D.!

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Looking to fund working on OpenGameArt.org full-time.

Hey folks!Just a quick note.  I'm looking to fund work on OpenGameArt.org full time (probably via Kickstarter or similar) once my current work project is done, and I'm interested in hearing what people would like me to work on.  If you have any thoughts, please join the discussion on OGA:http://opengameart.org/content/if-i-could-work-on-oga-full-time-what-would-people-want-me-to-code-or

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WTactics Summer of Cards

WTactics is a beautiful, freely licensed card game which pleasantly surprises for example by having it's amazing assets under free licenses, not shying away from employing same-sex love themes and now, by inviting game designers to share an apartment in lovely Sweden on WTactics development during July 2013.People all over the world are hereby welcomed to participate in Summer

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Project Leadership & Management in Free, Open Source Games

Both 0 A.D. and Unknown Horizons experience a change in leadership!For 0 A.D., Erik Johansson steps down from project leadership and Michael D. Hafer assumes that role.In Unknown Horizons, Nightraven steps back and Kilian fills the project management role.Leadership in free and open source game projects is an exciting topic with much opinion about which style will lead to a successful game - what

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SuperTuxKart accepted in GSoC2013!

Google's Summer of Code, is an annual sponsorship of programmers to improve selected open-source programs (or games :D ).This year, quite a few interesting FOSS game projects got accepted (again) and one being our very own friends of the SuperTuxKart project.Read more about their role as a mentoring organization here. So how about applying as a participant yourself and helping out this great FOSS

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Some idTech4 games progress

Great news from the people behind the idTech4 powered stealth FPS The Dark Mod: They are making great steps to leave their Doom3 mod legacy behind and a standalone version should not be all that far from now.New The Dark Mod replacement artworkYou can follow the progress here on their forums, and maybe you can also give them an helping hand.Interestingly there are two other recently updated Doom3

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Bushido Blocks: Slicing Puzzle

Bushido Blocks is a puzzle game for Android under GPL license,  inspired by block-bashing games such as Bejeweled, Diamond Dash and Tap Blox.Bushido Blocks ScreenshotsTap matches of three or more blocks to slice them with your katana. The more blocks you can slice in one go, the more time you gain on the clock. Special blocks eliminate whole rows of blocks but don't give you any extra t

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2x0ng: Procedural Puzzle-Action Adventure

Retro and art-game fans will love this.2x0ng is a challenging action/puzzle game with procedurally generated levels. It is pronounced "TWO-zong", and is the sequel to David O'Toole's 2009 PC puzzler Xong.2x0ng framebuffer examplesAt its core, this game is a mashup. 2x0ng's design is a nonlinear combination of several different late 70s/early 80s home video games, combining related aspects of each

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Jedi Knight source-code liberated & Flare 0.18

In a pretty surprising move the source-code of the idTech3 based games Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were released under the GPL by Activision and Raven Software. You can find the original source drops here and here.The content is obviously still propitiatory (e.g. you need to buy it), but some people have already plans to upgrade the source as OpenJK (most likely back-ports from i

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0 A.D. Alpha 13 and other less fanboyish updates

Ok I admit it... I am a bit of a 0 A.D. fanboy! But the new Alpha 13 release is also great again, and deserved an update post:Also pretty cool is the new OpenMW 0.22 release, that finally features player and NPC animations, and thus starts to look more like a functioning game:Other unrelated news:To progress on their standalone version, the developers of The Dark Mod are looking for support in th

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