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Apricot The Apricot open game project is going to open their code/media repository . Packagers are needed to help the project: if you know something about packaging and bug tracking/solving write to us ! Apply to: res[-a-t-]crystalspace3d.org OpenFrag 0.5.2 has been released on the project's fifth anniversary. You can get it here and read about the features in this thread . Ardentryst Ardentryst by Jordan Trudgett is a side-scrolling fantasy rpg that focuses on story and character development. It's python-based and I was able to run it just like that! (it's only one level though.) It even has voices!! (well, ok - only in the intro.) BBB box The open movie project Big Buck Bunny (BBB) DVD lay in my mailbox (the real one) today! The movie is what I expected it to be: cute, pretty, shallow, a bit funny. It runs for eight minutes and contains fifteen seconds of grotesque post-credits 'outtake' which some of you might find offensive. O_o BBB - A graphical glitch! I

Well, no blog in a while so I'll pitch in. The big release was Scourge 0.20 which is really turning into a nice game. It's one of my favourite projects, not least because of the regular releases and the RPG theme and it's a complete game (12 chapters of storyline). It's surely worthy of being listed on the FreeGameDev complete games page! Version 0.20 was probably the biggest feature packed release yet, and the game now has numerous active contributors. Open City 0.06dev1 got released in April, which I didn't see mentioned anywhere. Nice to see the project continuing at a steady pace. Grab it from the project downloads on Sourceforge (the website does not link it directly) and see what new features are going into Open City on the project's development page . Howitzer Skirmish now has a website. It's the tank game with full physics simulation of the tracks: In the physics simulation, a motor drives the sprocket, which in turn collides with all the

SMC 1.5: New particle effects and enemies You can now download version 1.5 of Secret Maryo Chronicles (smc). Lots of improvements found their way in: New World, many new sprites, replaced enemies, particle emitter, ambient sound, many fixes and more! The project is moving the game's visual style further away from it's Mario inspiration - I applaud to that. There still is a bunch of tasks for audio and 2D graphics artists though. A bit of a while ago, the platform game scored first place on yet another genuine top open source games list ™. Okay. The update on smc was actually just a cover up. You and I, dear reader, we have to talk. Text browser folks and RSS users can leave now. This is what Free Gamer will look like... maybe This blog will get a new look soon. If you care about the style of the text you read here, please take a look at the current work in progress and comment on it. Let me help you help me help you (help me?)

Egoboo 2.6.1 (stable) is ready for consumption (go there for download links). Go kick some ego ass with this revived classic. For braver souls there's also the development version but the Linux effort lags a bit behind the Windows effort with that one. There's also a great overview of the upcoming Scourge 0.20 release. The features for version 0.21 sound very promising. Scourge is very close to having enough features and contributors to make it a very, very nice game and if support for the Worldforge model format gets done, I can see some nice new models making it into the game and it finally getting some credit. Here's pictures of Project Football , an exciting project to create a soccer management game. The site is mostly in Spanish though the author posted a thread in the FGD forum. Finally, the author Stormbaan Coureur of has posted the following request for pledges towards a game he has been creating that fully simulates a tank with tracks. If he gets en

Solitaire Settlers of Catan Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Ca-Tan Ca-Tan Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Ca-Ca-Ca-Ca-Tan Nettlers So we have now at least five working games 'inspired' by the board game "Die Siedler von Catan" hosted on SourceForge.net : Solitaire Settlers of Catan 1.0 (new release), Pioneers 0.12.2 (new release), Settlers3D , Nettlers (Win only at the moment) and jCatano . No problem really, it's a great game and the projects have something individual in each of them. I enjoyed test-playing Nettlers via Wine . I was surprised by a well self-explaining interface. (Other candidates on the list are rather unclear about how to do what.) Yes, these are the controls. No kidding. Stephen M. Cameron released Word War vi 0.08 , a retro-looking, good-sounding (98% self-made, CC-BY-SA 2.0/3.0 sounds/music) Sopwith-ish/Side

OpenArena likes furries OpenArena 0.7.6 is out. ( direct link to Win+Lin+Mac zip archive ) More maps, more models/skins, more game modes and a new tagline! OpenArena is a violent, sexy, multiplayer first person shooter For 0.8.0 also planned: more music ! (There isn't any right now.) If you're hosting an OA server, you might want to upgrade. And if you know someone who hosts a server, tell them to upgrade, will ya? The general tendency seems to not know about the new release. O_o Robot-looking stuffs are cool The site has a new look (you might want to keep your eyes closed though.) Also, there seem to be some troubles with the new version. I didn't experience any problems, except for the low amount of up-to-date servers. Nexuiz on the other hand, behaved badly, when I tried the then-fresh 2.4 release for the first time. Fortunately an emergency hotfix thread was opened and patched versions posted. If you encountered problems with the game and didn't bother to try t