Gaming Daily A-Z

The Godot Engine ("the open-source answer to Unity3D") continues to make exciting progress with the recent stable release of version 2.1 . Besides lots of small usability improvements to the GUI, the main new feature is a asset sharing store build right into the editor: This should hopefully result in a lot of extremely easy to use assets, and I am looking forward to seeing a lot high quality assets from OpenGameArt.org transferred into it ;) In related news, it was recently announced that there is work going on to allow C# (a extremely popular game scripting language also used in Unity3D) scripting in Godot besides the current Python based custom language. So this should lower the entry barrier for indie developers significantly, and maybe we will even see a conversion utility for open-sourcing simple Unity3D games? Furthermore they are also working on a visual scripting system akin to Unreal's Blueprint or what you can use in the Blender Game Engine. Yeah, visual pro...

Or something like that... because as much as I think FOSS games should cater to the other ermm... 2nd out of three(?) gender, I am not sure if this is meant ironic or not (description of the game Glamour ): You are Maddeline, a young princess just turned 16. Now you're old enough to attend the royal balls and your fairy godmother will help you get ready for the most exciting dances. Watch out your way while walking around this amazing city full of filthy foes. They may harm your look. You wouldn't like to reach the ball all covered with dirt. Visit the Make-up, Shoe, Dress and Accessory Castle to find the most beautiful outfits and win the Prince Charming heart. At least I see relatively little pink on that screen-shot... Source-code is available here for those that wonder... *stalkes slowly away* But -BAM-... here is something clearly more manly: Unvanquished Alpha 19 -BAM- check the alpha 19 changelog -BAM- Oh and the soon to released AlienArena Tactical also sound l...

Post-Soviet Adventure's protagonist cleaning up the inventory The story of  GameLV: Adventure Game in Post Soviet Environment  (Post-Soviet Adventure) begins with your dog having gone missing and your only lead being a meat product factory. For about one hour you point-and-click through pre-rendered environments, hunt pixels, read humorous descriptions and dialogues to reach a resolution. I for one appreciate the humor in AGiPSE's humor, which I might have a high affinity to due to do my roots in Russia and my life taking place in eastern Berlin most of its time. Be warned though: references to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography and violence are common in this game. Post-Soviet Adventure is available in English and Latvian languages, both text and voice, although the English voices are incomplete. video:  [English Voices] Adventure in Post Soviet Environment (GameLV) by snauts (Artūrs Grebstelis) The engine features savegames and scene animations ...

Hello fans ;) Today we get back to the main business of this blog: gaming news! And of course my favorite genre: FPS (forevar!)... specifically everything related to the Quake2 engine (idTech2). The reason is that we got a nice mail from the developers of Quake2World , which I had not really on my radar as still under development. But now they released a public beta , which I have not tried yet as there isn't a Linux download (yet). Edit: Updated to newer video But judging from the pictures and videos, I am was quite sure that DFSG standards are not fulfilled... and they know and don't care (very short sighted... but well). So that is why I decided that they don't deserve a news post all by themselves :p Low and behold... an update on all Q2 based games that *are* on my radar: AlienArena is preparing for a new release with a reloaded trailer and some update one engine improvements : What's new in AlienArena Ya3dag , also released a new version recently and I s...

A thread called " Post your Open Source Game " on the gamedev subreddit  let me discover some new and old projects. Here are three of them: Zolo A hyperactively fast jump and run with chainsaws: Zolo . Food Fight An OGRE-based real time strategy with vegetables and taco: Food Fight . GameLV An "adventure game in a post-soviet environment": GameLV .