I have to admit that we are a bit slow on reporting the news on FOSS gaming projects with we actually host ourselves via the freegamedev.net forums. Valyria Tear is sadly no exception, and their new 0.6.0 release has been out a few days already. Sorry to all whom this may concern.For those not in the loop, Valyria Tear is based on the engine of Hero of Allacrost and aims to be an all FOSS jRPG. T
Fundraiser: Fantasy Creature under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Free the Monsters! is a collaborative Indiegogo campaign to create and share five fantasy creature 3d models under CC-BY-SA 3.05 3d models and 10 works of concept art will be released if the goal of USD5000 is reached.Perks include t-shirts and voting rights. Voting will be based on short creature descriptions. The top 10 will be turned into concept art and of those, the top 5 will be turned
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
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
Flock 2013, OLCP Games, Gamification through Badges on Linux
There were some game development related events at Flock Fedora Contributor Conference, August 2013 in lovely Charleston, SC, US.Trigger Rally Map Workshop So far my contributions to Fedora were merely a few wiki edits but my conference proposals were well-received.Free Art Game Making presentation slideI ended up speaking about making games using free art and leading a Trigger Rally level b
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
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
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
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
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
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
