Gaming Daily A-Z

The first flipper pinball machine was released 68 years and 1 month ago and yet there is only a handful of open source, cross-platform pinball video games available! Oh well, let's take them for a spin, shall we? UPDATE  Dec 1st, 2015: 1. Added  Libre Pinball , see  Honorable Mentions  below. 2. Added conclusion section. UPDATE  Jul 17th, 2016: Updated Emilia Pinball links Nexus Pinball Nova Pinball Gameplay Started only a month ago, Nova Pinball 's simple sole 2D table is a lot of fun and development has made good progress. Emilia Pinball Emilia Pinball Gameplay on Five Tables The ancient 3D Emilia Pinball project has a recent fork on GitHub  that adds more tables (the last official release had only 2, the new one has 5). The code is the ancient but consistent original SourceForge project and some new tables are flowing around patches/mailing list posts  https://sf.net/p/pinball/ The game has 4 perspectives (F5-F8) The models are very low-p...

Wymrsun 1.6.0 was recently released (announcement on our forums and on Steam ). Wyrmsun is inspired by the original Warcraft games and many reviewers on Steam compare it to Warcraft II. The project continues a steady development pace which is always a good sign so I encourage RTS fans to try it out. Wyrmsum Naev 0.6.1 has been released . After a long period without releases until release 0.6.0 appeared in March, this follow up release indicates a return to regular progress for the project. Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game. I couldn't find a more recent video but here's a bit of a development log of some features for the 0.6.0 release. Speaking of resurgent projects, Valyria Tear has some news. The most noticeable change is that I killed a few days ago a very nasty bug that was there from the beginning, making the lua threads never freed from memory. This means the game won't end up anymore swallowing gigs of memory for nothing and crash due to some memory o...