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Selasa, 16 Desember 2014
Godot Winter Game Jam
Godot winter icon
A game dev jam to create a winter-themed open source game was community-initiated at the Godot forums. The (vote-determined) winner will get a budget of USD 50 to have donated to an open source project of their choice.
What is Godot?
Godot editor
Godot is a game engine. No wait, it's actually a game development IDE with its own Lua-based scripting language.
As far as I can tell, it's a promising project that is a bit buggy, especially when it comes to mobile exports. It has some UI flaws (subjectivity warning) but still, open source Godot is more appealing than proprietary Unity 3D.
If you want to try making a game in Godot, I recommend this official tutorial as a starting point. Good luck & great success to you!
What else?
Another way to support Godot: "like" it as a Unity 3D alternative on alternativeTo.
Minggu, 14 Desember 2014
Strife: Veteran Edition
Just in case you can stand having Steam DRM installed in your system, I recommend taking a look at Strife: Veteran Edition. Strife is a Shooter/RPG based on the Doom Engine and dating back to 1996. The developers for this new remake had the wits and sensibility to use the Chocolate Doom engine as the main code base, which is, of course 100% licensed under the GPL. With so many top quality Free Software engine remakes around here, it really astounds me why so few developers choose to use them on modern HD remakes and ports (I'm looking at YOU, upcoming remake of Heroes of Might and Magic III not using VCMI).
As mentioned, so far the game is available exclusively on Steam, but I'm pretty sure a DRM-free GOG version will eventually follow, as it usually does.
Code License: GPLv2 + LGPL
Assets License: Proprietary
Kamis, 27 November 2014
Xonotic community frag movie and other FOSS arena FPS news
Very nice new movie from the Xonotic community:It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some say too popular) "Minstagib" (one shot kills) and the total conversion mod Overkill (All new player-models and weapons, with team-spawn etc.) are also shortly shown.
Not shown are the popular vehicle mod and the recently added lightning gun (still WIP), but you can try everything yourself easily by getting the auto-downloader of the latest development build here.
As with most FOSS games, they are looking for more developers (& players) and if you have some cash to spare you can currently also pledge for the creation of some NPC characters for a single-player or COOP-mode here.
Speaking of FOSS crowd-funding, another great FOSS arena shooter, Red Eclipse this currently preparing a campaign for porting their somewhat aging Cube2 engine to the much nicer Tesseract (which is technically something like Cube3).
Oh and a new version (1.5) but still with the old engine should be out very soon ;)
Happy fragging!
Rabu, 05 November 2014
Stunt Rally version 2.5 released
To celebrate tomorrow's big movie launch, I am nicknaming it Interstellar edition :D
Get the all the details and download links here!
Sabtu, 11 Oktober 2014
Terminal Overload 0.3 released + support the developer on Patreon
The very innovative and awesome looking (+ fully FOSS) multiplayer FPS Terminal-Overload got a new release today. Edit: By now there is actually already a 0.4.0 release, get it here. |
| Charged x-jump on the new ETH5 map (3rd person camera turned on) |
The new GUI looks like this:
- New map: ETH5 - Prettier GUI - Replace re-jumping with instant & charged x-jump. - Tweak CAT movement speeds. - Simplify disc controls. - ETH mode: Each class only has one type of offensive disc. - SMG changes: Increase firing rate, decrease damage, shorter range. - MGL changes: Remove recoil, decrease firing rate, fire only one projectile. - MG changes: Projectiles are affected by gravity. - Remove etherboard from class #4 (Minigunner) loadout. - Remove SG2 from class #2 loadout. - Improve responsiveness of mouse look while in CAT form. - New projectile visuals (except discs & grenade).
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| New menu graphics with options window |
Yes, YOU! Right NOW! ;)
Developer contributions to code and art are of course also welcome.
Selasa, 07 Oktober 2014
Annex 4.0 RTS released!
We mentioned it a few days ago, but you can now download the latest 4.0 version of the RTS Annex: Conquer the World.
Changes:
– 2 New Factions: Alliance Renegades and NEO RepublicIt's especially great to see them switch to a fully FOSS licensing model!
– Shadow Organization units: Vixen (hero) and Sentinel
– New Tilesets: Apocylapse, Metropolitian, Overcast, Brightland, and Outland
– Increased Level cap, unit re-balancing and refined gameplay.
– New Technology tree options: Simple Battle, Simple Deployed, Ready for War, and Insanity.
– All Technology trees now have a (D) Double Damage or (H) Half Damage variation.
– Improved graphics, lighting, and particle effects
– Save + load game feature
– New maps and scenarios
– New soundtrack, voice overs and sound effects.
– FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) license
P.S.: Unrelated, but Unvanquished also got a new Alpha 32 release just now.
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