Gaming Daily A-Z

== Insert introductory text here == Strategy games Civitas city Civitas is a project of a colaborative educational game, where children from schools can cooperate in a network for the construction of cities. This sounds/looks like a multiplayer OpenCity . Civitas is a GPLed project written in Java. Thumbs up to kid/education-related game projects whose creators are brave enough to use standard free licenses ! Clippers Clippers is a board game designed by Alan R Moon that is an abstract island connection game based on clipper ships and the south pacific. This computer version is written in Java 1.5 and includes AI players. Just like Civitas, I wasn't able to give it a spin. Sorry, Java issues. :( The Spring Engine has a nice new homepage and a pleasantly clear list of games . (This is probably very old news but kind of new to me.) I was told that Kernel Panic is a 100% open source game for Spring, but unfortunately I am either too stupid or too lazy to make it work. :| Role-play...

Nexuiz 2.5 has been released 6 11 15 days ago. (I *am* taking my time! O_o) You might have spotted the announcement on Phoronix . Here is the 666 MB heavy download. In case you care about traffic more than graphics and sounds or have a weak system: An Arch Linux user created a ~60MB version for 32-bit Linux systems. So what are the big selling points of 2.5 from the player side of view? According to the changelog : New HUD , new weapons , new racing game mode , improved look & sound , better bots . Nex is also supposed to be faster regarding processor and network utilization, I did not try to test this though. Head-up display Nexuiz 2.5 - more screenshots I did not notice any revolutionary changes in the user interface - besides the better score board and noob-friendlier map voting system. Unfortunately the game menu part of the GUI is still slightly weird with its microscopic quit button. Racing mode Futuristic "Racetrack" "Race" is a game mode, in which ...

Here is some commercial free software gaming news, which I partially failed to deliver on time. Paul's Music Liberation Experiment is a product of jClassicRPG's lead developer following his passion for composing music. He releases music tracks under the gratis but non-free BY-SA-NC license and visitors can donate to specific tracks, which in return will be released under the free BY-SA license . The money earned from this will be covered to cover Paul's expensive music software purchases and hopefully a proof that at least small bucks can be made with freely licensed media. It's called " experiment " after all. :) I am a big fan of this project! I detest the non-free Creative Commons licenses, but this method is perfect to illustrate just how many people think that being free is more important for media rather than just being gratis. Tremulous T-Shirt Logo Ministry of Frag (MoFrag) sells a Tremulous T-Shirt and 25% go to the Tremulous team. That's the ...

Diamond Fighters Товарищи , Diamond Fighters is a tank arcade game that can be played alone or in two-player mode against computer-controlled enemies in a progression-based level system. I find it quite fun (it has upgrades & destroyable walls!) and good-looking (yay for pretty explosions!). Its source code is GPLed (no idea about art.) iamar [ home page , project page ] is a project for teaching students how to make 3d games. It covers 3D modelling in blender and 3D game programming. The project consists of video material and the "iamar browser" which uses an in-house scripting engine called "semblis". I have not tried to run it yet, but it is rather relevant to my interests , even though the "we made our own scripting language" deal does sound rather lame. iamar has one huge advantage over Alice and Platinum Arts Sandbox : A 100% free software license (the GPL). (I'm especially confused about Sandbox' license .) MyMan Geek game news time! M...