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Elf Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult

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PC Game | Action | 22 Mb

Hold on to your stockings! Those crazy elves are up to no good and Santa needs your help to show them what the true meaning of "strike" really is! It's quirky, hilarious bowling fun just in time for the holiday season! Compete in a festive bowling game where the elves are the pins, providing their own special, colorful commentary! With just the flick of your mouse, bowl to get a spare or strike, winning trophies along the way! It's the wackiest Christmas adventure yet!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Memory: 256 MB
DirectX: 8.1 or later
CPU: P2 700
Video: 32MB 3d DirectX 8.1 Compatible Video Card

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Holiday Gift

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PC Game | Puzzle | 8 Mb

Dip into the festive season as you relax and celebrate your match-3 imagination with Holiday Gift! Explore 4 different game modes, each with its own addictive qualities! Find gifts through 40 beautiful levels in Adventure Mode, solve 100 Puzzle Mode levels, match groups of four in Quad Mode or just enjoy Relaxed Mode! Let the wonderful music and soft colors carry you away to the infinite world of magic and pleasure in Holiday Gift!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows Vista
Memory: 24 MB
DirectX: 3.0 or later
CPU: P166

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Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate

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Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own demise at midnight this very day. She has asked for your help in investigating each quirky carnival worker to determine their whereabouts at midnight. Your investigation will include a multitude of fascinating personalities, from Art the Carny to Lucy the Bearded Beauty, while exploring the magical world of Fate's Carnival. Each suspect has a motive, but only a Master Detective can discover the secrets hidden within Madame Fate's crystal ball.

Part 1 | Part 2

Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing is basically a series of mini-games aimed at casual gamers and fans of the movie. Gamers start by choosing an avatar for themselves. For those of you who were hoping to choose an elf or dwarf character, you’ll be mightily disappointed, as the choices come down to just a male or female character. After selecting the gender of your character, the gamer can then select the look of the character with the options for skin colour, facial features, hair style and dance costume. The option list isn’t huge, but there is enough variation available to make an avatar that slightly resembles you in a cartoonish way.

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Amazing Adventures: The Lost Tomb

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You are an adventure seeker who travels the world in search of forgotten & lost treasures. Search for hidden objects and circumvent unique puzzle traps to recover the most sought after treasures the world has ever known. Welcome to Egypt! A piece of an ancient map was discovered and is believed to reveal the location of the Lost Tomb of Egypt.

Under the direction of the Museum, you must immediately begin your adventure to locate the Lost Tomb and the treasures locked within!
Complete all 20 missions by finding hidden objects and circumventing unique puzzle traps. Good luck on your adventure!

Take on 20 missions traveling to amazing Egyptian locations like the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the River Nile, Thrones, Tombs, Cairo, and many more. Play over 100 levels with 7 different types of mini-games and puzzles. Find over 2000 hidden objects in 2 unique game modes: Find the Lost Tomb and Secret Game mode which is unlocked only after you have located the Lost Tomb or have found all the hidden Scarabs which have been left behind in each location.

System requirements:
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista
- DirectX 7
- 350 MHz
- 128 MB RAM

http://rapidshare.com/files/75828259/AmazAdvent.TLT-LG.rar

Dreaming of a Sensi Xmas

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Yoda Soccer


Yoda Soccer 0.73 came out at the start of November - looks like that one slipped past most of the open source community. However it looks like 0.73 will be the last release for this Sensible Soccer clone. Whilst they have gone most of the way to recreating the classic game, the limitations of the platform used to create it (the proprietary BlitzMax) means the authors have created a new project, Open World Soccer, which will be a Sensi clone in C++. There is already an alpha release (very alpha) which shows off higher res graphics although not much more. For those people pining for a bit of Sensi nostalgia, try out Yoda Soccer which is relatively complete.



The Castle 0.8 is available for download. It's still a bit of a tech demo, but the initial level looks promising. It's nice to see somebody making progress with a single player FPS game, although there is still a long way to go with this one.




Dream Chess


Dream Chess 0.2 is pretty amazing as far as chess games go. I can't wait for them to add FICS [Free Internet Chess Server] support although that could spell doom for this blog as I'm short on time as it is! ;-)



I tried out Secret Maryo Chronicles the other day, checking it out as a potential game for my son. I couldn't believe how good it has become. Just 6 months ago gameplay was dodgy, sprites and sounds were ripped. It was a mess. Now, it makes Super Tux look like ordinary Tux. It takes a classic and gives it high res graphics and a cute facelift and everything just seems to be better done than Super Tux. At least SMC doesn't pretend to not be a Mario clone and just indulges in it's heritage. I hope the Super Tux developers see it and use it as a cue to make Super Tux not so Super Mario.

Venture Arctic

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PC Game | Tycoon | 22 Mb

Venture Arctic is an interactive ecosystem that you can control as you please. Unlike other Tycoon Games, there are no people in Venture Arctic. You won't have to build hot dog stands, hire janitors, or balance your checkbook. Build your ecosystem however you want to! There are 22 completely unique animals, all with realistic behaviors. Harness the forces of sun, snow, and wind to create balance in these fragile ecosystems of wolves, whales and more!

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Hidden Relics

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PC Game | Puzzle/SeekAndFind | 92 Mb

Priceless antiques have been stolen and hidden throughout Europe. The Professor calls upon her star student Adrianna to help her retrieve the stolen antiques. You will help Adrianna evade the evil thief as she travels Europe in search of the antiques. Mr. Gadget is also there to assist you. Solve his puzzles and he will give you cool gadgets like x-ray goggles, a diamond detector and more! It's a race to stop a thief, along with some seek and find fun, with Hidden Relics!

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Need For Speed: Pro Street

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Need for Speed ProStreet boasts impeccable precision and impressively detailed photo-realistic graphics, effectively transporting you to the center of the action. It pushes the "Autosculpt" technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car's performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance. Need for Speed ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown.

How to install:
1. Unrar.
2. Burn, or mount with Daemon Tools.
3. Install, when asked for a serial use the keygen located in the crackdir of the DVD or enter one of the following:

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Breaking News: Glest Updates

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Glest has carried the accolade of being a leading open source game due to the relatively polished nature of it's graphics at the time of release a few years ago. Since then, sadly, the development pace has not matched the original hype surrounding the game.



For the first time in quite a while, there's a major development push. This time, the emphasis is on making it multiplayer.



There's a windows binary patch, and the code is in SVN for other OS users, although is largely untested on anything other than Windows.



Also released today was Star Ship Troopers: Last Defense 2, a mod for Glest. Updated models can be seen in this thread. The download is a whopping 130mb so there's plenty of new content to chew over in there.



That's a lot of Glest goodness. Enjoy!

Fab Fashion

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The big show is coming up, and Kate Masters has mere minutes to measure, cut and sew her artistic designs before the models hit the runway. Work your way up from small town seamstress to a couture superstar through 48 levels in eight unique cities. Get the highest bids for your cutting-edge designs and upgrade your studio. The amazing depth and endless design possibilities in this fast-paced game give it a unique edge you've got to see to believe.

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SNK vs. CAPCOM: Ultimate 2007

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This is a fixed version of SNKvsCAPCOM Ultimate Mugen War. What has been fixed in this version:

Charlie
Pocket Zangief
Master Rouwe

You no longer need to download the patch files if you download this main file.

Here is a description of this game for those who do not know already:

  • Approximately 400 characters from Capcom, SNK, and Sammy universes.
  • Hidden characters to find.
  • Approximately 250 stages, 240 of which are selectable, and every one of them has their own unique music!
  • You will fight a set number of random matches and then a set number of boss matches.
  • Bosses are arranged by level of difficulty and have their own unique stages and some with their own unique music!
  • High difficulty, but definitely not unbeatable!
  • Different end fights depending on the mode of play!
  • All of the characters were hand picked for playability and balance as well as difficulty and fun factor.
  • Many rare and extremely rare characters! I tried to get the very best versions of characters and many hours went into finding them.
  • Balanced gameplay!


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Taskforce: The Mutants of October Morgane

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PC Game | Action | 6 Mb

As a Taskforce Commander, you will control Taskforce team TF1 to fight exciting and terrifying enemies as you transverse a complex plot that starts with a seemingly ordinary hostage situation and ends with a thrilling climax! This squad level turn based strategy game has an immersive 3D environment, more than 30 training and story missions and a huge variety of weapons all at your disposal!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows Vista
Memory: 64 MB
DirectX: 8.0 or later
CPU: P400
Video: 64MB
DirectX 8.0 compatible 3D Graphics Card

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Abra Academy: Returning Cast

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There have been several strange attacks on Abra Academy. It seems that some unknown creatures have broken into the campus and are causing havoc! The children are frightened and the monsters are creating a huge mess. Wanda and her friends have been called in to investigate the attacks and find a way to stop them! Return to Abra Academy with more than 25 new levels to master, hundreds of objects to discover and a unique crystal ball to help you!

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Fashion Fits

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PC Game | Action | 23 Mb

Francie just got a new job at the Uber-Mart clothing store. The only problem is she's the only employee! Help Francie run a fast paced clothing store by stocking tables, cleaning fitting rooms, providing customer service, and more! It's up to you to set the fashion trends by purchasing new clothing. And don't worry about your mean boss! Complete the first year at Uber-Mart and then help Francie open up her own line of clothing stores from a sunny beach boutique to a posh department store!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Memory: 256 MB
DirectX: 7.0 or later
CPU: P800
Video: 32MB Video Card

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Neptune's Secret

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PC Game | Puzzle/SeekAndFind | 51 Mb

Dive deep beneath the waves to the lost city of Atlantis and join a young archeologist on her search for the true story of Neptune's demise! Uncover the mystical secrets of her own lineage and the power of her amazing amulet! It's a sea-worthy adventure, filled with seek and find thrills! Featuring 75 gorgeously detailed levels, loads of cleverly hidden objects to find, and a fantastic story to reveal, Neptune's Secret is an exciting plunge into the depths of fun!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Memory: 128 MB
DirectX: 8.1 or later
CPU: P900

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Mahjongg Investigations: Under Suspicion

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PC Game | Mahjongg | 20 Mb

Organized crime is taking over Metro City! As a detective in the 83rd precinct, use your Mahjongg skills to unearth clues and bring the criminals to justice! Investigate a vast cityscape with more than 20 locations where you'll collect and match evidence tiles to pinpoint perpetrators. Special clue tiles reveal hidden information and mini-games throughout allow you to interrogate, analyze, and close the case! Build your career as you make the streets safe for the good people of Metro City!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Memory: 256 MB
CPU: P3 800
Video: 32MB Video Card

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A Day With Charlie Junior

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I had an opportunity the other day to do some game playing with my son - so I had the constraint that the games had to be playable by a 7 year old, meaning favourites of mine like Fish Fillets were generally ruled out.



First up was the ever-popular Super Tux. The young lad was an experienced campaigner at this so it didn't hold his attention for too long. However, whilst we were playing, I did notice a number of things that I think need addressing in the game:



  • Complete lack of originality

    They have copied Mario down to the core. It's a clone with different graphics. Every Mario aspect (gameplay, enemies, etc) has a "skinned" equivalent in Super Tux. Really, it's one thing to be inspired by another game, but to clone it down to the last detail? I don't know, maybe I'm being harsh (after all, I'm a Freeciv fan) but I feel there's a big room for improvement in this regard. I especially don't like the fire flower; can't we come up with some good alternative upgrades?

  • Very unbalanced levels

    The first level is really easy - as it should be. However that quickly changes. After 3 or 4 levels I'm starting to struggle to complete them. After 7 or 8, I find myself quitting the game in frustration at missing another long-jump-to-narrow-platform. The game is completely unbalanced and way harder than it should be at an early stage. One of the reasons the Mario games worked so well is because they were very well balanced. The game never really got hard until about half-way through (and that's a lot of levels). There is far too much acrobatic jumping required in Super Tux. They need more levels where the acrobatics required are compensated for by having a floor to catch you so you don't die repeatedly. The level designs are just too unforgiving.


Moving on, we went with Super Tux Kart. This went down quite well with the young'un initially but interest quickly waned. Again, the culprit is the design of the levels/tracks, which are generally atrocious. One of the keys to the addictiveness of Mariokart was the simplicity of the majority of the tracks. They had straights and few tight corners, meaning you zipped around them, the nuance being in how to get around them with minimum slowdown. Super Tux Kart levels have no straights (none of them) and are all mazes. Just staying on the track can be a challenge. The AI itself is not challenging at all. The physics is diabolical (but this has been fixed in STK SVN which now uses the bullet physics engine). Still, a lot of work needs doing.




Funguloids


Going for something simpler but more complete, I installed Barrage and Those Funny Funguloids. I was having a great time but then I got a jab in the ribs and a stern look, so we moved on.



Bomb Attack (happypenguin entry) was the first game we played that he really got into. It is a well executed bomberman clone with cute graphics, although it is still a bit incomplete.



NJAM also was popular. It manages to give Pacman depth, an accomplishment in itself. Whilst he played those two games I had enough time for a nap!



Next up was Freedroid RPG. This game has some really lovely graphics - although the main character graphics look awful. It was a good game but there's a lot of reading required, a lot of talking. Also it's not exactly obvious what you need to do - places are mentioned but are not easy to find. The level of gaming knowledge required was just a level too high to retain the attention of a 7 year old.



The final and most popular game of the lot was Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid. This 2D platform game looks nice, is fun to play, and is not so difficult that you find yourself repeating the same few seconds of gameplay over and over again - yet isn't so easy that it is boring to play.



All being said, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't come up with more good Free gaming options. Other than stuff like GCompris and Tux Paint which he is starting to grow out of, it was difficult to find him a good Free Software game that held his attention yet didn't require a degree of experience beyond the reaches of a typical 7 year old. In the end, he spent most of his time on the Play Station 2 with Lego Star Wars (which was actually a lot better than I expected it to be).



Are there any obvious open source games I missed out? Suggestions welcome. :-)

Empire Earth III

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Empire Earth III takes the legendary real-time strategy franchise and gaming genre to new heights. The ground breaking new game truly puts the EARTH into Empire Earth by introducing a spectacular global perspective to conquering the world. The globe will serve as the battleground between the 3 unique factions (Western, Middle-Eastern, and Eastern) that have been created with a stunning new artistic vision. All of human history and beyond - across the entire globe - Empire Earth III commands all!

1. Unrar.
2. Burn or mount with Daemon tools.
3. When asked for a serial enter one of the following serials or use the
keygen located in the /Crack directory on the DVD:

xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx

4. Copy the cracked executable from the /Crack directory on the DVD to your
installation directory.
5. Play the game

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Glorious Days of Yonder

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Like a time machine, I go back to the days when Free Gamer brought you new games and exciting updates, bound together with poetic abandon that would make a scholar proud.




Open Football


The coveted Free Three Dee football game, Open Football, continues to grow. Like Wembley, a spectacular scene that so many doubted would ever come to full fruition, the developers battle on in their audacious endeavour and, against all odds, the project plods forward at a steady pace. Cast your eyes upon the first screenshot to show more than one player on a pitch! Not much, say ye? Nay, but more than those before it, and so continues the goal of creating a football game that isn't rubbish to play. Oh and they show off Mac/Win versions in addition to the existing Linux screenshots.



What ho? A foe? Or could it be an ambitious open source single player RPG project that looks like it will go somewhere? Radakan, brought to my attention via a wandering adventurer in the local tavern, but artwork seems entirely conceptual at this stage.



Imperium: Sticks, a Real Time Strategy game from the dawn of history to the far future. The idea is a bit RTS meets civilization (the project name rtciv gives it away) and it's early days yet. This was another one posted in the forums which are becoming a really good place for Free Software game chatter and treasure.



I've saved the best for last. Iris2, the Ultima Online 3D client, gains tileless movement support. Anybody who had a look at previous videos (like this) may have noted the rather restricted movement - characters obviously constrained to a grid - similar to the way this post moved unceremoniously from slightly-cuckoo-ye-olde-english to normal, but that's the effect a time machine has on you. It plays with the mind, y'see. Er, back to Iris2 and it's starting to look really, really good. Check out the video!





More info and general open source taking over UO info in the Iris2 dev blog.



Hey, I know, I could... wait, that'd be spoiling you guys. You'll just have to wait until next time. It's a gem! ;-)

Cave Days

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PC Game | Action | 18 Mb

Here's a story of two prehistoric buddies: one feels there must be more to life than just hunting dinosaurs, while the other enjoys every tasty bit of it! Then a woman comes along and all bets are off! Follow these funny cavemen through four full-featured environments with tons of humorous cutscenes and more than 100 goals to achieve! It's time to meet Ugo, Dawson and their friends in Cave Days, the game that reshapes the Stone Age! T-Rex included!

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Diner Dash: Hometown Hero

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On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. Bring five restaurants back to life as you help restore Flo's hometown. In the Gourmet Edition (PC only), enjoy special features such as dressing up your waiter and inviting friends to play in a diner you created! You can also buy items for your diner or purchase new downloadable restaurants.

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Read All About It

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Mars: Land of No Mercy, it was looking dead, but it's back! The website is back online and hopefully so is development. I would point out that it was always available on Sourceforge but an offline website can be a death knell for an open source game, so it's good to see things running again.




Ad Infinitum


Ad Infinitum, a 2D space strategy game that looks very promising although is very early on in development and, other than the Sourceforge project page, doesn't have a website yet. It is also currently Windows only (Linux support done using WINE) but it is licensed under the GPL so there's always a hope that will change.



Whilst there's a few online space strategy games, there's not too many singleplayer Free Software space strategy games out there (FreeOrion and ?) so I hope to see this one establish itself. There's alpha releases available for download.




A3DX


There's a new 3D artillery battle game about, called A3DX. The website, like the game, is in it's early stages of development. It looks very similar to Scorched 3D -- so much so that omebody suggested it was a fork but it's not. However, looking at the screenshots I'd say it's definitely not as Scorched 3D looks much more advanced (as is to be expected).



Hrm, what else...



The FreeCol team updated their website design - the previous design was over 5 years old.



No, that wasn't it. Erm...



Ah! ASC 2.0(.1) [Advanced Strategic Command] was released a couple of weeks ago. I think I missed it. This release is the culmination of years of work since the last stable series was introduced, and the community looks to be as strong as it has ever been. There's a multiplayer universe where you can pit your military wits against other players, and the AI isn't too bad either. There's a reasonable singleplayer element, although it's a bit short of being able to qualify itself as a singleplayer game. If the classic hex strategy games are your cup of tea, then definitely look at ASC as not only does it draw on the classic Battle Isle series, but it also has several years of steady development. It's available for Linux and Windows.

Hawaiian Explorer: Pearl Harbor

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PC Game | Puzzle/SeekAndFind | 55 Mb

Hawaiian Explorer: Pearl Harbor is an addictive treasure hunt game where you will scour caves, beaches, shops, and shipwrecks in search for the legendary 800 year old Japanese Diamond Medal! You will be part of an extreme search team working for an eccentric multi-millionaire who has a passion for traveling and world treasures. With 15 fun and challenging missions and 4 bonus games, this game will keep you entertained for hours on end!

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Baby Luv

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PC Game | Puzzle | 42 Mb

Baby Luv will have you falling in love with the cutest babies you'll ever see! Choose from hundreds of different items to create and customize your very own baby! Play tons of mini-games, including hide and seek, jigsaw puzzles, memory match and more to earn money that you can spend at the baby store! Feed, bathe and pamper your baby as you experience the joys of first steps, first words, first laugh and all of the fun of baby's first year!

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To do - do the to do

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I have a few things to do - notably:



  • Integerate the planet feed

  • Integrate the announcements feed

  • Integrate the forum feed

  • Organise another interview or two

  • Finish my half finished articles that are steadily building as a backlog of drafts


We have all this shiney new infrastructure after some brilliant work by notably Ghoulsblade and Hagish, and I'm dragging my toes including it. Sorry guys!



The planet and the announcements really could get included in any site which would really help to push Free Game development to another level in terms of being accessible and reaching it's audience with minimum effort.



On the Free game side of things, my multiple commitments (notably work and Fortress which I'm trying to get the codebase moving properly) mean I'm not really following the open source game scene as closely as I used to.




Silver Tree


The open source RPG scene is looking quite healthy at the moment. Silver Tree is shaping up well and seems to be shifting away from it's graphical ties with Wesnoth.



There's an update on the Hero of Allacrost website. There's good progress so it looks like they'll have another release before Christmas of this Final Fantasy style game. They also want to make a change to the current battle system because the current one is too demanding on the artists.



Also the Galaxy Mage Redux project is gaining a bit of momentum.



Damn, got to go, will try and be more elaborate tomorrow!

Heroes of Hellas

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In Heroes of Hellas, you`ll travel through Ancient Greece to find the thief who stole the scepter of Zeus. This relaxing matching game challenges you to click and drag across objects on the game board to create chains of three or more identical items. Draw from the powers of 7 heroes and use special bonuses. Explore the history behind nine classic mythologies. Easy to learn and challenging to master, Heroes of Hellas offers an unforgettable adventure through a magical time.

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Luxor 3

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PC Game | Puzzle | 45 Mb

Luxor 3, the next smash hit in this awe-inspiring series, takes you on an ethereal journey where your match-three skills are used to battle the power-hungry god of Chaos! Free the spirits of other Egyptian gods by stopping the procession of approaching spheres before they reach the pyramid at the end of their path or all will be forever lost! There are seven unique game modes and many unlockable power-ups, ball sets and shooters! The Battle for Eternal Afterlife begins here, with Luxor 3!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Memory: 256 MB
DirectX: 8.1 or later
CPU: P2 700
Video: 32 MB DirectX 8.1 Compatible Video Card

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Flatspace II: Rise of the Scarrid

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PC Game | Action/Strategy/Shooter | 25 Mb

Flatspace II: Rise of the Scarrid is a modern 3D space trading and flight simulation experience. The ultimate objective is to locate and assemble parts of a galactic hyperdrive, however as the celebrated space captain, you can decide what you want to do and how you want to play! You are free to make a living in many ways including trading cargo, bounty hunting, space piracy, performing missions or just exploring. Flatspace II...now is the time, the universe is the place!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT
Memory: 64 MB
DirectX: 8.0 or later
CPU: P400
Video: DirectX 8.0 compatible 3D Graphics Card

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