Gaming Daily A-Z

Since football is all the rage right now - unless you are hiding under a rock then you can't have escaped the World Cup - then a little bit of football game news seems appropriate! The game formerly known as Yoda Soccer has left beta and been unleashed upon the classic pixel soccer game world as YSoccer . YSoccer version 14 If you never played Sensible Soccer, then you may not yet get what the fuss is all about - if that's the case then you should download it and give it a try! Sadly football games are a little under served in the open source game community. Bygfoot and Eat the Whistle are quite playable, if a little raw. Project Football is almost a game. Open Football and Open World Soccer never quite got off the ground. Project Football looked great but was last updated 4 years ago YSoccer stands out amongst them and deserves a bit more attention than it probably gets. EDIT: I feel I was a little unfair to Open World Soccer. If you download 0.5 (the most recent release...

A little bit late today, but that's ok because tomorrow is Sunday, a Holy day, a day of rest, so I don't have to post. :-D Eek, where to start? Tilt-n-Roll is an innovative open source project that uses the tilting mechanism in modern laptops to recreate the classic wooden labyrinth experience. GPL, runs on Lin, Mac, and Win. What more could you ask for? Version 1.4 of the semi-open source 3D RPG game SoulFu is available for download from Aaron Bishop's homepage . The page only lists .exe downloads but I'm sure Linux versions will appear in the official forums sooner rather than later. SoulFu minivid Soul Fu creator Aaron has responsed to the general querying of his "unique" distribution methods for the game: I wanted to make a good game, and I do want people to improve it -- I simply don't have the time or desire to do it myself. Getting millions and millions of people to play the game is a goal, but SoulFu is a lot of things... It's a little e...

Shaders seem all the rage these days. Now Thunder n Lightening has support for them too just days after Danger from the Deep implemented shader support. Wavey reflecty shiney water. I smell pretty FOSS games! :-) Boson Actually the first FOSS game I remember getting such fancy effects was Boson . A 3D RTS, the codebase suffers from KDE dependencies which limit portability somewhat as well as making it a pain to install on Linux systems without KDE. Given how cool it looks, I'm sure they'd be much further on as a community if it was easier to install on non-KDE systems. I'm sure they would get much more developer interest if the game were available for Windows and Mac OS X and available in a format other than tarball for Linux . Somebody just pointed me in the direction of Qonk , a space strategy game. It's in the early stages of development but has a much smaller scope than typical space strategy projects like FreeOrion , so is already very playable. Games onl...

Bygfoot Football Manager development has been resumed. *Cheers!* The latest unstable release is 2.1.1 and contains updates to the UI, the addition of a "luck" factor to make long term success more challenging, and new country definitions. Bygfoot is a good game. I played version 2.0 a fair bit because I've always been partial to football management games. However, the UI is atrocious. It's clumsy, it does things you don't expect, it forces you to do things you should not have to. For example... In football you tend to have a first team - that is, your 11 best players - with substitutes to cover that first team. So typically, assuming no injuries or tiredness, you always start with the same 11 players. This is by far the most common approach. However in Bygfoot when you make a substitution in a game, the "team change" is carried over past the game. This forces you to manually undo substitutions after every game. Being a management simulation...