Galaxy Forces: Moon Lander Action!

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.

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Stephen Cameron: Space Nerds in Space Interview and Crew Gameplay Video

A 15 minutes long video profile of Stephen Cameron was published on YouTube by Jack Younger - hacker (presumed) at TX/RX Labs.Stephen Cameron Video ProfileThe video includes an interview of Cameron's about his latest project Space Nerds in Space including inspiration and actual authentic gameplay video footage of the crew (highlights at 08:30).Video thumbnailsSome of Word War

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Fundraising for GPL game Plee the Bear

This is a guest post by Julien Jorge, developer, artist and musician behind the open source indie games Plee the Bear and Andy's Super Great Park, here to present the fundraising campaign he launched for the former. Some years ago, with the help of three of my friends and anonymous people on the web, I have created Plee the Bear, a great platformer in which you play an angry bear whose son has be

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, funded!

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 to pledge mo

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Lost Sky Tactical J-RPG [PyGame]

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.pyLost Sky screenshotsVideo: Lost Sky Gameplay: Tactical jRPG on Linux [PyGame] Story of a Lost Sky is a

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Dead Morning, an open-source horror game

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, so I am rather intrigued wh

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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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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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Are We Alone? Atmospheric 2D

Are We Alone screenshot: Safe on EarthLet's Play Are We Alone?Are We Alone - a space game where you travel from planet to planet, between star systems in search of intelligent life - has been released on Github under MIT license.It was made for Ludum Dare 22 "alone" and is a quite atmospheric piece.Code License: MITContent License: Unknown

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Erebus RPG for Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone

Video: Erebus - Open Source RPG for Android, Linux and SymbianErebus is a hack & slash role-playing game under heavy development, yet playable with currently three missions.Features:Classic point-n-click style RPG, with dungeons to explore, enemies to fight, NPCs to talk to, sub-quests to complete, scenery to interact with, weapons, treasure and other items to find.Also supports Rogue-like ke

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Free Orion 0.4.2

A few day ago a much improved version of the 4X space strategy game FreeOrion was released. Check out this cool set of introduction videos (Part 1, 2, 3):Most notable additons:Very much improved, non-cheating AI. Sometimes experienced 4X players loose.Many GUI enhancements and shortcuts.Galactopedia expanded with game mechanics articles and many cross-links.Batch production of ships now possible

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Winter Shorts 3: PyWeek #16 in April, Rainbow Rooms, Valyria Tear on OS X

PyWeek #16 in AprilPyWeek logoPyWeek is a game jam that obviously goes on for one week and requires the use of Python. It takes place online and there are overall winners in team and solo categories, as well as awards. The dates of the 16th PyWeek challenge are 00:00 UTC April 14, 2013 to 00:00 UTC April 21, 2013. Registration opens on 15. March 2013.There is a message board for the community and

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Asylum: Free-as-in-Freedom Horror Adventure, Successfully Crowd-Funded

This is a guest post by Hythlodaeus on an interesting FLOSS game engine project, being developed by a professional games company. ASYLUM videoI guess I should take a few paragraphs on this article to explain my stance on crowd-funded game projects. I've always been turned off by most Kickstarter game projects for a very simple reason: after personally inquiring a plethora of developers on their s

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Winter Shorts 1: Word War Vi Laser Edition, Space Nerds in Space

SNiS Engineering screenStephen Cameron, one of my personal heroes of game development (Be The Wumpus), made Word War Vi support color laser projectors using the openlase library [blog post].Word War vi driving RGB color laser projector with openlaserAnother project that our forum users were allowed to follow in this thread is Space Nerds in Space:So this game (when it becomes a game) is very much

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Various voxel engine ramblings

I have outed myself previously as not a big Minecraft fan, so take everything in this post with a grain of salt (as I obviously don't really understand that genre).Anyways... recently this sub-reddit for open-source games was pointed out in our forums, and while it isn't really as lively as others (for example the Linux gaming one) it pointed out an new project called Iceball:Pre-alpha Iceball sc

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Updates from AgentKeeper

I mentioned this nice new project that appeared on our forums some time ago already, and while the promised source-code isn't available as of yet, a new and quite good looking video was recently posted:Now as you can see, it shares quite a lot of graphics with OpenDungeons, which is not completely dead either, but there is at least some discussion to "jump ship" as AgentKeeper is progressing much

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Fresh versions of Stunt Rally and Warzone2100

Just released today, there is a new version (1.9) for Stunt Rally:Stunt Rally 1.9It has a few nice new features, but probably the greatest update is a major change in the car handling physics, including an "easy" mode for those of us not wishing to practice for a career as a professional rally driver ;) and the guys would like feedback in the SR forum so let them know what you think.A big collect

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