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...

Cheese Boys breaking the fourth wall Cheese Boys is a humorous post-apocalyptic action adventure. The current two-level implementation, that features dialog and fighting already contains a lot of strange fourth wall breaking humor (although it is quite different to Fallout's.) Goblin Hack 1.16 Goblin Hack (GH) 1.16 is now out with new features , including music by Pascal Provost and new level kinds. Apparently there even is an end game level now, which I assume 0.17% of all GH players will reach. (Ever finished Nethack? Not me. :) ) Plutocracy rev 499 Plutocracy is a multiplayer 3D RTS game focusing on merchant trade and domination by economic means, although warfare and piracy are always an option. The game has a 1600s Caribbean theme, is played on a real globe, and aims to replicate realistic economic transactions. I fell in love with it's graphical style, which reminds me of Populous III . I haven't had the chance to play it with anybody else and there are no bots, ...