Gaming Daily A-Z

Clonk Clonk got open sourced! Welcome OpenClonk . Clonky! It seems to be the indie game fashion at the moment what with 0AD and all. What is Clonk? Clonk is a multiplayer-action-tactic-skill game. It is often referred to as a mixture of The Settlers and Worms. So, the Clonk developers open sourced it , but since backwards compatability is a big problem for them, they ditched all Clonk content and are asking the community to contribute new game content. Judging by the forum, the community looks very active, it's a case of 'watch this space' I guess. The above video is the "Clonk Rage" trailer. I got the impression this is what has been open sourced although I'm not sure how of the levels/content came with it, if at all. Perhaps somebody could check out the source and see where it is up to? Anyhoo... so, Ceil... round up... get it? Despite the lack of Free Gamer activity, the FOSS game scene is as active as ever. Some new releases that should have been m...

I'll start with a couple of interesting freeware titles... A while ago I came across (but forgot to mention) Hidden and Dangerous which has been released as abandonware by it's commercial developers Illusion Softworks . Linux users will need Wine but other than that it's another free gift to the gaming community. Clonk Another game to highlight is Clonk This freeware puzzle game seems full of potential. However I found the controls unintuitive and the tutorial rather unhelpful - I couldn't get past the second tutorial level! Still it was interesting and had a nice old school Amiga-ish feel to it. Again it's Windows only but should work with Wine. I did a little article on IVAN the other day. It appears that IVAN development has stagnated but, no fear, the power of open source is here! The community created their own forum found at attnam.jconserv.net . There is an unofficial 0.60 version of IVAN as well as a fork called VLAD . Thanks to blogger user n...