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 thought I'd check out how Super Tux development is going. I grabbed the lastest svn, compiled, and performance was so abominable that it took me a minute just to quit. It didn't help that it was placed half-off the screen (probably because I have a dual screen setup) Super Tux used to run fine. I'll hold my hands up and say I'm using an nvidia chipset and the open source driver without any significant OpenGL Acceleration, but it's a 2D game . I hope they work on some kind of OpenGL-less fallback. Mole Invasion One little-known but very promising platformer is Mole Invasion . The website is mainly in French, but there is a dedicated English page . The game language defaults to English. The current release is version 0.4, and the first thing you notice is the Mario-like logo; obviously the inspiration for the gameplay. The second thing you notice is the performance - it runs great. It's really smooth, the animations are good, the characters move well,...