Gaming Daily A-Z

Lots of activity amongst the FreeGameDev crowd. Qubodup has created an amazing new forum skin , so participating in the forums has never been a more pleasant experience than it is now, and he's still tweaking away. A new feature, Wikiwatch , a sort of planet for wikis, was added. Now I just need to improve the blog (include announcements rss, update links, generally nicer layout) and FreeGameDev is go. 5.... 4.... 3... etc. ;-) In terms of game news, it's gone a bit quiet, fortunately for me. Glest with shadows Bloodmasters Glest got shadows. Purty. :-) The OpenClou! team have put up their first model concepts, as seen on the Sourceforge project . Lovely! Bloodmasters will soon be open source. It's a 3D top-down arcade shooter with plenty of blood. Will report on it more when it is. Yay for me . :-D I wanted to put a screenshot up but Blogger is being lame... will put it up later. Edit: Done! Bridge Builder 2006 is now available for Linux from here . It'...

In the first of a new wave of Free Gamer content, Ingo Ruhnke aka Grumbel and one of the most prolific open source game developers around has kindly taken the time to do an interview. Please note that Ingo's first language is not English, and I've not modified his answers in any way other than to sanitize links. I have made a few notes on his answers at the end of the interview. Many thanks to Ingo for taking time to answer my questions, especially in so much detail - much more than I could have hoped for! :-) Just in case you left your brain at home today, the questions are bold and prefaced with a Q - and the answers, er, not bold with no Q. Q. In my best Cilla Black accent, "What's yer name an' where d'ya come from?" My Name is Ingo Ruhnke in the real world, on IRC and web forums I use to call myself Grumbel. I am coming from good old Germany from a town called Bielefeld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy Q. And what do you do for a ...