Long time no update from...

...FreeGamer? No not this time :p It's rather that the Spring RTS engine ran into some trouble with their long overdue 0.83 version and now decided to release 0.84 instead ;)Along with it comes also a new Zero-K release (0.9), which prompted one of their players to make a nice new trailer in anticipation:Zero-K fan trailerSo...that's it for today ;)P.S.: Check out Zero-K's Planetwars metagame too.P.P.S.: Also Spring related... someone on their boards is looking for people to take over the development of another quite nice RTS game: Conflict Te...

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OGA challenge: Mobile, Become WTactics a Character, Illes' Game Music Album

First 'mobile devices' contest submission by MumuThe current OpenGameArt challenge is 'mobile devices' and ends on Monday, December 5, 2011. The contest before that was low on participants and a survey was started to figure out how to get more people involved.Becoming a WTactics characterTaken from OGA: WTactics is currently offering a chance to have your likeness on a WTactics card in order to raise...

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Open Source RPG News, Freedroid and IrrRPG builder

The wayward Goat strikes again!Freedroid 0.15 rc 1:The plucky, 'puter punching penguin hack 'n slash RPG stalwart has had a new release recently, reaching the 0.15 rc milestone (how many years will it take them to get to 1.0, I wonder?)It adds lots of things, new quests, new guns, new abilities, UI fixes, editor tweaks... Lots of development happening there, so check it out!EDIT: Thanks to shirish for pointing out that it's still at rc 1 stage, and...

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BREAKING NEWS: Doom3 source code released!

Ha, you probably read it here first, since it is just an hour ago that it was uploaded!https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gplHave fun tinkering with it!P.S.: A good dev forum for it is Doom3wor...

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Fan made trailer contests and other FPS news

So it seems Red Eclipse is having a "contest" for creating an official trailer for their upcoming 1.2 release. Nothing to win (except fame), but the guys from Sauerbraten (also Cube2 engine based, like Red Eclipse) recently did the same with a quite nice result: New official Sauerbraten trailer So if you want to participate, have a look at their rules and check out these nice open-source tools for video capturing:  GLC (short tutorial by our qudobup) and editing: PiTiVi or KDEnlive (sorry for being Linux centric here :p ).In other news...

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Clouds & Sheep

What can I say about Clouds & Sheep? Well, first off it's free and I'm trying to avoid reviews of such games. At the same time this one is different. Ok, not totally different as it really falls into a 'sims' style of game. This time, however, instead of managing a city or a family or a farm or a... you get the idea... you're managing a flock of sheep. If that doesn't sound like fun then you're...

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Riptide GP

I picked up the Riptide GP demo back when I first got my Transformer tablet and was looking for games that took advantage of the Tegra 2 chipset. I had to admit that it really wowed me. The graphics on this game are drop dead gorgeous especially for a device that I can hold like a steering wheel. However, the $6.99 price tag scared me away. Since then it's dropped to $4.99 and there was even...

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jMonkeyEngine Official Beta Contest Announced

We're a week into what has been an absolutely thrilling experience so far. What was more of an experiment to see what some developers might pull off with the new Beta release has far exceeded our expectations.Prizes include a free copy of the upcoming "jMonkeyEngine 3 Beginner's Guide" and a free theme from the WooThemes shop. Additional prizes might be added.If you want to get caught up you should read the following articles:Brief AnnouncementExhaustive...

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Unknown Horizons 2011.3 Changes and Videolog

Unknown Horizons 2011.3 is out! Features are:Complete settlement AI (details here)Combat and diplomacy systemIncrease in performance (partially thanks to FIFE)Support for internationalized voices (right now available: de, en, fr)Nine new buildings, one new ship (here are some)New statistic widgetsUsability and interface improvements (for example the in-game menu)New maps and a parameters-based map generatorThe original announcement...

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New websites, releases and competitions etc

Couldn't really think of a fitting headline, but here is the bunch of randomly collected news from the FOSS gaming realm:First of all, OpenDungeons finally got a nice website and a blog (as mentioned previously). And in collaboration with OpenGameArt, the kicked off their art competitions again.SummoningWars also got a new website recently, and they have also released version 0.55 a few days ago.New Summoning Wars GUILast but not least, the pledgie...

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Settlers of Catan Rules in Open Source Games (aka Clones, Remakes, Implementations)

Settlers of Catan is a popular board game. In today's terms it can be described as very 'social' thanks to its trade mechanic, which can lead to exploitation, corruption, deception... all that fun stuff.There are a few open source implementations of the game rules, some of which I mentioned years ago and with two of them being updated recently, I decided to revisit them.First, a few fun facts in comparable table form, further below you'll find screenshots,...

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The Settlers: Heritage of Kings

The Settlers: Heritage of Kings Developer: Blue Byte Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: Strategy Release Date: February 24, 2005 (US) About The Settlers: Heritage of Kings Fifth installment in the Settlers series. The focus of the game remains the same in many ways, but this time, players will find a new main character named Dario waiting for their control. He seems to have lost his kingdom and is trying to get it back. The first...

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ET:Xreal 0.3.0 released

Just as a quick follow-up to last weeks post about ET:Xreal:Version 0.3.0 got released today!ET:Xreal 0.3.0As you can see, it is still a long way to go to replace all the non-free assets, and graphics sure don't look quite as great as all the features of that engine would make you believe (which proves again: it is the artists making a game look good :p ), but it's a start and you can begin brushing up your ET skills again...

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Trigger Rally 0.6.0

Testing Trigger's Physics [source video]Trigger Rally 0.6.0 for Linux (source portable) brings following new features:New (and old) contributed tracks and eventsNew Practice ModePaging on the Single Races screen to show all the available tracksOption to show speedometer in KPH or MPHOption to show digital speed on the speed dial ('hybrid' style)Fading track comment and GO at race startFreezing course time when passing through a checkpointTweak menu colors for...

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Phlipple - Unique 3D Puzzle

PhlipplePhlipple is an original puzzle game which could be useful for training thinking in 3D.It's available for Linux and Windows with 50 levels and there is a 100-level version for Android (EUR 1.70 / USD 2.30) and iOS (was it taken down? License drama senses tingling!).I don't know anything about the availability/license of the build instructions/scripts for the portable platforms and of the additional level files but assume they...

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