Gaming Daily A-Z

I have a few things to do - notably: Integerate the planet feed Integrate the announcements feed Integrate the forum feed Organise another interview or two Finish my half finished articles that are steadily building as a backlog of drafts We have all this shiney new infrastructure after some brilliant work by notably Ghoulsblade and Hagish, and I'm dragging my toes including it. Sorry guys! The planet and the announcements really could get included in any site which would really help to push Free Game development to another level in terms of being accessible and reaching it's audience with minimum effort. On the Free game side of things, my multiple commitments (notably work and Fortress which I'm trying to get the codebase moving properly) mean I'm not really following the open source game scene as closely as I used to. Silver Tree The open source RPG scene is looking quite healthy at the moment. Silver Tree is shaping up well and seems to be shifting away from ...

Just as I was about to start lamenting the loss of a promising game, somebody steps up with a call to arms to resurrect development efforts. Galaxy Mage Redux (placeholder site) will continue where the original Galaxy Mage team left off. They need pythoners and pixel artists so if that's you then make Santa's life cheaper by restoring a good Free game. There is already a forum and the game code is still available here . His request for help has cropped up in a few places -- happypenguin.org and the FG forums are just two of them. Another project in the doldrums is Mars: Land of no Mercy (website down). It is still available from the Sourceforge project and there's a post (from August) explaining the website downtime. SVN activity indicates that whilst the site has been down, so has development. And... what's this... 0AD , the uber-looking freeware RTS game, may actually be released under an open source license ? Too good to be true? It is, really, they won...

8 Kingdoms Legacy of Magic 8 Kingdoms is a 3D turn based fantasy strategy game. Build empires and conquer enemy kingdoms. I came across it in the Ubuntu forums where the poster suggested the graphics were not that great. Well, the graphics look pretty good to me. In fact I quite like the plastic-like model style. It gives the game an interesting look and feel. The game is at version 1.0 so is fully playable. :-) The map is hex based which also intrigues me. I always find hex more fascinating than boring square grids. There is only a Windows installer and a tar.gz available for download , so non-Windows players will probably have to compile it themselves. Keeping on the strategy theme, I came across a game I'd lost the link for a while back. Legacy of Magic is a very promising looking fantasy war game. The homepage is a development blog although there has been no update since November 2006 so I'm going to email the author to see how he is getting on. It would be a ...