An interesting mixture to "pay what you want" and "ransom funding" has recently surfaced with the Open Bundle:You can buy all the offered game art and use them under the CC-by license and if the total threshold is reached (10k, 1 day remaining, 9.3k already pledged) all the game art (2d sprites and music) will be officially released under the CC0. A split of the funds is btw. shared with the EFF
Unvanquished summer tournament
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 thus quite well developed game
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
Xonotic 0.7 released
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 features for competi
Hedgewars 0.9.19 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 0.9.19The 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 trailer if you
WIP "OpenFlashpoint"
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. Work so far has mainly been done on the internal me
Play FreeCiv in your browser (HTML5)
FreeCiv is now available as a HTML5 implementation that runs right in your (modern) browser:Load times are quick too, so give it a try. It even supports multiplayer.Tip: Moving units is either done via the arrow keys (preferably the number key-pad ones as those allow diagonal movement) or by dragging a red line from the unit to the desired location.
OpenXcom takes a giant leap
Main menuOpenXcom is one of those projects I've been following religiously, not only because I'm a huge fan of the X-COM series, but also because it promised to deliver a fully stable and bug free engine port released under a Free Software license.The last time I talked about it, it seemed like there was still much work to be done, but apparently things have changed, as the developers suddenly ju
Heroine Dusk, cool in browser retro dungeon crawler
Clint Bellanger, the awesome guy behind the Flare RPG (engine), just landed a surprise hit for the #OneGameaMonth competition(?):Heroine DuskThe fully JavaScript (and thus in Browser game) is called Heroine Dusk, and can be played here as a first demo. Game play seems to be heavily influenced by those early 1990ties pseudo 3D dungeon crawlers (similar to the recent indie-game hit "Legend of Grimr
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.!
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
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
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
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
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
