Gaming Daily A-Z

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 ...

Following up the recent release of Thunder & Lightening , the action flight combat game, the author has posted a video on the website showcasing a major feature of the next release - an aircraft carrier. It looks cool and TnL is looking like an excellent game. Definitely close to the top of my games-to-play-when-I-upgrade-my-PC list. What do you get whewn you cross-breed Elite and Space Invaders? Scum of the Universe : "a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy." It is open source and runs on Windows - but if you are feeling charitable, interestingly, you can still buy the game. From the screenshots , it looks fun. Bah, too many games, not enough time for Charlie to play them! The other day I mentioned Damnation of the Gods , a Dungeon Master clone. Sadly I jumped the gun a little as development has been inactive for a year or so. However one diligent reader attempted to get it running and overcame a few compilation problems but has yet...