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Let's Play  (LP) is an uprising form of previewing and experiencing video games. While a review summarizes the experience, a LP allows to look a player over their shoulder and indirectly experience the game from one perspective in its entirety - if both Let's Player and viewer have the endurance. LPs have many styles: non-commented, informational, humorous... And their production quality varies too, be it video, audio or presentation. Example of a Let's Play video in its natural environment Some creators of LPs ("LPers") earn money using YouTube's monetization features. When they do, YouTube's semi-automatic moderation process starts paying more attention to the videos' compliance with copyright. Sometimes, LPers will contact game developers to receive permission to create LPs. To many creators of games, LPs are a welcome form of promotion and they will always say yes. Clint Bellanger of FLARE released a Let's Play policy , which elegantly covers b...

WTactics is a beautiful, freely licensed card game which pleasantly surprises for example by having it's amazing assets under free licenses , not shying away from employing  same-sex love  themes and now, by inviting game designers to share an apartment in lovely Sweden on WTactics development during July 2013. People all over the world are hereby welcomed to participate in Summer of Cards 2013 – the first ever real life gathering of the dev. team and all those of you that want to get aboard and contribute to the worlds first truly pro libre customizable card game, our dear WTactics. 1:st to 28:th of July 2013 is when this is going down in Malmö, Sweden, so do some reading in here and scribble us a mail already so we can start planning for wicked goodness. You come and stay as you may. "A couchsurfing style gamejam" was approved as a possible description of the event. Invitation to summer of cards 2013 Your host says hi! Once this returns positive results, I will be...

Both 0 A.D. and Unknown Horizons experience a change in leadership! For 0 A.D., Erik Johansson steps down from project leadership and Michael D. Hafer assumes that role. In Unknown Horizons, Nightraven steps back and Kilian fills the project management role. Leadership in free and open source game projects is an exciting topic with much opinion about which style will lead to a successful game - whatever the subject's definition of "success" is - and too few examples to make objective statements about it. Are you following any specific projects and their leadership structures an want to comment on these? I must admit that I am out of the loop with many, many projects, although I am pretty sure that for example Flare , NAEV and Valyria Tear have (successful)  Benevolent Dictator for Life style leadership. On related note: FIFE (the isometric 2d engine used by Unknown Horizons) moved to GitHub.

This is a guest post by user Hythlodaeus, discussing open source clones, indie game community behavior and developer's apologies. video:  Open Hexagon - Official Release Trailer Vee Software's Open Hexagon is a very, very recent game, but even in its short existence, it has already managed to stir up quite an amount of controversy , the matter being that Open Hexagon is none other than a free software clone of the popular iOS/Android game Super Hexagon , created by the equally popular indie developer Terry Cavanagh . Now, video game clones are not a negative or uncommon thing at all, and have pretty much existed since the beginnings of video game history. However, Open Hexagon developer, Vee , has recently found himself the victim of some serious flak, the reason behind this being that he decided to release his own game clone before the much anticipated PC/Steam version of Super Hexagon. This resulted in a legion of rabid Cavanagh fans rushing in to accuse Vee of being a thief...

Time remaining to vote SourceForge.net has " Project of the month " to promote communities supporting their favorite projects. December 2012: UFO:AI battles against JStock in the poll for "Project of the month". It's a close race. You know what you have to do.