Alpha 14 and a crowd-funding campaign for 0 A.D.

Pretty interesting news from 0 A.D. today: They are having a Indigogo crowd-funding campaign.Note that this is a flexible funding campaign, so even if they don't reach their goals all money donated will go to the project.They also released a new Alpha version, codenamed Naukratis. Change-log would be too long to list here (which I consider a good thing ;) ), but here is a picture of some high-qua

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Today: Glamour, or how to hide irony about gender stereotypes very well...

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 ready for the most exciting dances.Watch out you

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WebGL dungeon crawler Moonshades now FOSS

More browser-based RPG goods for you today: the developer behind the game Moonshades recently indicated on the Opengameart.org forums that this neat old-school (ok not as old-school as Heroine Dusk) dungeon crawler is now fully open-source.Have a look at the alpha game-play:It seems the entire game (including the source-code) is released under the rather art focused Creative Commons Attribution (

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Browser based MMO: Ironbane

I wanted to write about this browser-based MMO game called Ironbane for a while, but never actually got around trying it (it's easy though, no need to register for the alpha currently, just hit play; but for me under Linux with Firefox 23 it just kept loading and loading... could have been my very slow connection though). Luckily the creator got into contact with us to remind me about it.Here is

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Assault Cube reloaded, version 2.5.8

I'm a bit hesitant to cover this game, as media licensing is a complete mess, but well some might enjoy playing it and the source-code is there ;)Here is a longish game-play video of Assault Cube Reloaded:You can follow the latest development and see the change-log here.P.S.: Funny to see some of the Red Eclipse artwork and Xonotic sounds (I think) reused, but I wouldn't want to open the can of w

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Lips of Suna 0.7.0 released

After a long hibernation a new version of the 3D RPG Lips of Suna was released today!Take that you, ermm brown something?More screenshots here, and there are quite a few great new features:New terrain system.More responsive controls.Real single player mode.New spell and enchantment systems.Many graphical improvements.Added limited scope game modes.Improved script performance.Extended character mo

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GSoC 2013 pushes SuperTuxKart forward!

If you follow our planet, this is no news, but the recent advances in graphics, networking a other stuff from SuperTuxKart are quite nice. This is basically a result of them being accepted to this years Google Summer of Code.Not showing most of the new features yet is this nice video featuring the mascot of OpenGameArt.org as a new player character:But their blog has many interesting technical de

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Stunt Rally 2.1 released

My luck... I do the reluctant once in two weeks post to keep the blog alive, and almost the next day is an unexpected big new release of a cool game ;)Ahh well... Stunt Rally 2.1 seems to have ventured into even less realistic spheres now:Awesome alien worlds in Stunt Rally 2.1A lot more (mostly more conventional) new screenshots can be seen here.All I need now is a nice unrealistically spongy ar

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Assorted news #1024

*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

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Much activity for Zero-K and some other news

Zero-K, the probably coolest fully FOSS offspring of the SpringRTS engine has seen at least two new releases since it last crossed my mind to check their page... a pity actually as the new features of version 1.1.7.0 (and prior) seem quite nice.And for those not into the game (yet), there is now a channel with commented multi-player matches like this one: Just a pity that the game-play doesn't re

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DevCorner: Open (Game Art) Bundle

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

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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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Open Source Never Dies

The beauty of open source is that projects never officially die as long as the source is available.Some classics simply keep moving forward because of this.  They get written off, domains expire, progress seems non-existent, but then somebody with a bit of knowledge and drive does something and the project is alive again!  That is the beauty of Free / Libre & Open Source Software.Su

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Data Dealer, an interesting project to fund!

The the last Kickstarter game project we featured was sadly not successful and with only 11 days to go it doesn't look too good for Data Dealer either. But this HTML5 and CC-by-SA licensed game project comes with a pretty cool idea and is quite playable already.It centers around the idea that services like Facebook & Google really arn't in the business of bringing you a good service (aka "If

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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

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DevCorner: Underapprechiated game engines

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 there is none so far... but a fe

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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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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

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DevCorner: Liberate some great Blender game art!

UPDATE: First set of files has been released (license CC0) and on my advise he added some stretch goals: 600$ > 3 game ready Enemies! (models, sfx, animations, effects)650$ > Dynamic optimized lighting system! (rich dynamic lighting with low resource usage )750$ > 4 new weapons!(model, texture, sound)850$ > Triple the amount of the actual props! (interactive objects,explosibles, new w

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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

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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

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Comprehensive lists of open-source game engines for proprietary games

Recently came across these two very comprehensive lists of open-source game engines for proprietary games edit: and various clones and inspired projects:Reddit postOpen Source Game Clones websiteI feel the latter has an a bit misleading title, as none of those are game clones (e.g. similar remakes) and most of those are based on the liberated original source-code also... but well I guess people g

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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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Rhythos RPG Builder Kickstarter

There seem to be not too many Kickstarter projects that promise open-source results (and I have to admit, incentives are lower if you don't get a copy of a cool game at a discounted price ;) ), but the Rhythos RPG builder project looks like one very much worth of support:The guy behind it (don't miss the slightly goofy video on the kickstarter page ;) ) seems to be quite far along development alr

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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.

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Two times (0.)2.0

(Yes, that is a rather thin common ground to combine these two news in one post ;) ).Anyways, today there is one for the "FreeGamers", aka those that are looking for more or less playable games:There is a new release (2.0) of StuntRally, and I guess I can quote Twain here too:The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!Because it looks like development was not only resumed after the ear

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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

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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

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