Gaming Daily A-Z

So here I am lamenting the lack of free (well, open source, but free is good enough) single player FPS games, and up pops this on Freshmeat; Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge : EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario based upon the Aleph One (Marathon) engine. It is a first-person action adventure game, featuring an epic and in-depth story line. The Aleph One engine is hardly cutting edge (originally powering the Marathon trilogy of games, circa 1996-1998) as you can tell from the EMR screenshots , but it takes a long time to produce a fully fledged single player FPS. EMR boasts 42 SP levels and a decent storyline. The game works on all 3 major platforms (Lin, Win, Mac) and is downloadable from their Sourceforge project page . I don't have time to verify how open source this game is but the source code is listed amongst the downloads. Another free single player game based on the same engine is Tempus Irae , which is based in the Marathon universe but adds a lot of new content. The origin...

I came across the Hardwar project the other day, a contemporary remake of the classic game . No visible progress but plenty of ambition and a cute website. We shall see if it gets anywhere . A remake that has made some good progress is Game of Bases , putting a modern spin on a Commodore 64 classic Flash Attack . Control 4 tanks, protect your base, and take out your opponents. I mentioned FlowFlowMania the other day, a Pipe Mania remake. Since then there have been a few updates - 0.5 was announced on Freshmeat although not on the FlowFlowMania site at the time of writing. Gno3dtet Blockout was the original 3D tetris. Gno3Dtet (aka 3D Tetris) is a remake that looks very similar to the original in terms of the tile graphics. Beware, for I have known more than one person be addicted to that game to the point it adversely affected their degrees! Not a remake, nor open source, but the Flash adventure game " The Terrific Menace of the Invaders from Audio Galaxy " (I'm...

Firstly a quick update on FreeTrain . The main game has now been translated, so should compile and run on Windows. At the moment, though, there are a few things to be addressed before it can be officially released and also it probably needs porting to SDL to run on Linux as - although Mono is implementing WinForms - it makes a few DirectX calls. That and I'm too lame (in combination with VS2005) to even make it compile on Windows. FlowFlowMania , a Pipe Mania clone, showed up on Freshmeat today. Sadly there's only 2 playable levels and graphics for a resolution of 320x240 but it's early days yet so hopefully development will continue. I loved Pipe Mania when it came out on my ZX48+ . Since I was commenting on FLOSS platform games (or lack of) the other day, "Steve" brought to my attention his game - Danger Man . I gotta say, although it's early days for this game (don't expect much), it was a fun to play for a few minutes. It's only v0.1 and th...