Gaming Daily A-Z

You might remember end of last year's Game Off game jam sponsored by Github. The winners have been annouced a while ago, and while again quite a few submissions were using closed source game engines, the overall winner isn't. So make sure you don't miss Sealed Bite , a fun little/short jump and run: Obvious inspiration comes from the very popular Celeste game . You can find the source code here , and not all that surprising it utilizes everyone's favorite Godot Engine :) Sadly the graphic assets are quite a bit less free (CC-by-NC-ND). Let us know if you enjoyed this gem of a game on our forums!

Hexoshi ( forum thread ) is a libre game generally inspired by the Metroid series, notably the older versions. It is seeking funding using CrowdSupply for a budget of at least $1100 to achieve "Milestone 1" which involves fleshing out the first world of the game, including new enemies, player abilities, and 30-40 rooms, and the graphics for it all (which seems to be the bulk of the funding requirement). It already looks quite well done, even though it is in the early stages of development. Smooth animations, accurate and responsive movement, and fun music all make it quite a compelling game and something the FOSS game scene doesn't really have. Hexoshi is developed by Julie Merchant, aka onpon4 on the FreeGameDev forums. It is written in Python and SGE . Julie/onpon4 also developed ReTux ( forum thread ) - a project that received less credit than it deserved, likely because it looked so similar to SuperTux due to re-using graphics from the classic FOSS platformer. In m...

We have mentioned in the past a few times that it is a common misconception that FOSS games need to be also "freeware", and in fact the opposite can be quite beneficial to the overall development of a game or the engine it is build on. The 2D jump & run  Frogatto & Friends has been for sale on mobile platforms for a while now, and its really high quality game-play and graphics are definitely a notch above most other open-source games: All of it is possible through the use of their awesome open-source engine Anura . Now they are looking to sell their game also on desktop computers through the very popular Steam digital distribution platform. You can vote for inclusion here . As far as I am aware this is the first open-source game that actually aims to be sold through this channel, but recently another one, Warsow, was actually approved for inclusion as a freeware title. As a launch of their "greenlight" campaign, the creators of Frogatto & Friends have ...

This is a guest post by Julien Jorge, developer, artist and musician behind the open source indie games Plee the Bear and Andy's Super Great Park, here to present the fundraising campaign he launched for the former. Some years ago, with the help of three of my friends and anonymous people on the web, I have created Plee the Bear , a great platformer in which you play an angry bear whose son has been kidnapped by god. Here is a guy hard to brave! You sure will jump in this amazing journey to find and rescue your son. Because you want to rescue him, don't you? Or to slap him? Maybe both…. The game was a spare time project for a long time, then we recently decided to create a real, full, complete, fun and original version out of the prototype. We have thus created our company, Stuffomatic , published a first game and now we are launching a fundraising campaign for Plee the Bear ! The prototypes of the game have always been released for Windows and Linux as free software, availabl...

Physica screenshots Let's play Physica - a hard casual platformer game played on Linux Physica is a very simple casual platformer game where the goal is to drive a square through game levels from its starting position to his goal, avoiding hazards and without falling down. SkyRiot screens SkyRiot is available for free for Android on Google Play  and was released under open source and free content licenses on SourceForge.net [ forum post ]. SkyRiot is a 2D flying shooting platform action game for Android devices. Fly a hoverboard and use an assortment of weaponry as you, an anarchist, single-handedly wage war against a totalitarian regime. Full 360-degree aiming along with total freedom of movement will keep you glued to your device for many hours as you blast your way across over 10 game maps. OpenMW v0.21.0 Commentary OpenMW  0.21.0 has been released. Changelog: Various dialogue, trading, and disposition fixes and improvements Torch flickering improved to better match vanil...

Haunts: The Manse Macabre is a BSD-code/CC-BY-NC-SA-art Kickstarter-funded, turn-based RPG(?). There are still a few hours left to contribute to additional features. Sintel: The Game , currently completely CCBY3-licensed, just had their first alpha release ! They have original voice acting and all! (Although I did not manage to get it running on Linux yet). Irrlicht-based cute Puzzle Moppet has been released under the WTFPL and I was able to replace all non-free textures and sounds. Now all we need is a repository coordinator. Valyria Tear is a continuation of the jRPG Hero of Allacrost project with an active development blog. Frogatto  is a well-designed-code, beautiful-proprietary-pixel-art platformer. The developers started " making friends " on their blog by talking about projects they like. idTech3 was reviewed in an extensive, illustrated article. Summoning Wars , a 3d-visuals hack'n'slash needs a new lead developer . A discussion  about OpenGameArt 's...

Today is another session of: "Look what I found in my FG spam folder" ;) But this time I am actually adding a lot of nice other stuff to it, so that it is almost a "dev-corner" post! But first things first... the frogatto developers made us aware that there is a new game based on their really nice 2D engine, called Cube Trains : Cube Trains Beta gameplay Note that, just like frogatto, the final version will cost a few pennies, but the engine is totally FOSS and the current Beta is still free to download. This seems to fit to the general idea of the folks behind this engine as they outlined in the email to us: I'm really glad we now have a second major title done in frogatto's engine, because we're gradually trying to position frogatto's engine as an open-source alternative to closed-source packages like GameMaker or RPGMaker;  partly just because development tools are one software category that benefits far more than other categories from being ...

Almost forgot posting about this... somehow our "own" projects here on FreeGameDev.net get somewhat neglected on the blog from time to time... But it's not because we don't care ;) So check this great new trailer for Me and My Shadow : New Me and My Shadow trailer Or head over to the release announcement on our forums to read about the changes in version 0.3 and download it! Don't forget to comment too ;)

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 .

Please bear with me for the duration of this post. Медвед BearGame игра про медведя прыгуящим на воздушных шарах. Актуальная альфа-версия была написана в Java.     видео: BearGame Plee le Porter BearGame n'est pas le seul jeu avec un ours. Par exemple, Plee The Bear est un jeu avec un ours comme personnage principal. Neues Pac-Bär Logo Des weiteren habe ich letztens das Logo für eine Berliner Hobbyspielentwicklergruppe namens Berlin Mini Jam überarbeitet. Dies hat nicht direkt was mit open source Spielen zu tun, aber einige von uns mögen die offene Soße und stellen unsere Spiele unter freien Lizenzen zur verfügung. Thanks for Bearing!

Wizznic! received more GUI enhancements [ video (00:57@YouTube) ] TORCS 1.3.2 brings menu music into the game [ .ogg  (05:50/7.1MB) ] Knights 0.19 features deathmatch [ description ] Humm and Strumm  is an in-dev co-op game engine [ design .pdf (156kB) ] SuperTux ' level contest has four entries so far [ submission thread ]

SuperTux level design mistakes to avoid SuperTux just got a forum on FreeGameDev.net and started a level contest. Rules: A snow tileset theme  Submit your levels here until the 27th of January, when voting will start Voting on levels will end on the January 30st Winners will be announced January 31st Have fun One level per person Top few levels will/can be made into an add-on or If admins are okay with it top levels will get added to incubator island (if winners are okay with it - pick cc0 or cc-by-sa for your level) One entry per person Please make a new level. (not from and existing worldmap/levelset) Don't vote for your self. Voting will take place in a new forum topic. Feel free to comment on peoples levels, most people would like to hear what was wrong or good with their level. Get the  editor , read the editor guide (and just play around, as the guide is incomplete ;) ) and check out the style guide . You can upload submissions in  this thread .

"Summer?" you ask? Well.. I'ts warm in Berlin.* Also a warning: this article is 80% development, 31.5% art and 18% games. Cross-language forums so far FreeGameDev Forums  now have Spanish and Swedish/Danish/Norwegian subforums. Should we add some more? Read  this  then write  here . OpenClonk old and new terrain rendering The 2.0 OpenClonk release brings higher resolution for the terrain, which makes the game look a lot better. Read the full changelog here . Blendswap entries.  Amazing . Check out the Blendswap   Military Vehicles Contest  entries: I'm amazed. But that's just me. I have a thing for mechs.  Alot  even. WebGL lessons. Freely licensed too. Did anybody know of these CC-BY-SA-licensed WebGL tutorials ? This dog  told me about them. "Hacking" 8-hour prototypes: Hubwar and Nodehack * Speaking of Berlin, Germany. There was a little game dev jam in Berlin . Two of the prototypes are open source! ( Hubwar and Nodehac...

Adamant Armor Affection Adventure The quadruple-A block-style story-based, sneaky-action pandora game  Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is now GPLed. Along with it some other games for that platform by the same author ( AAA for one [ video ]) were open sourced. Sources can be downloaded here (AAAA) and here (other games).   Video: 13 minutes of AAAA on OpenPandora  Much more info about the releases along with some internet drama history can be read in this post . I'm not sure about the assets and their license, there seem to be none included in the tarballs. /me requesting Linux desktop ports

It's time PyWeek #13  soon! The dates of this challenge are are 00:00 UTC 2011-09-11 to 00:00 UTC 2011-09-18 . Timetable Friday 2011/08/12 Registration underway Sunday 2011/09/04 Theme voting commences Sunday 2011/09/11 Challenge start Sunday 2011/09/18 Challenge end, judging begins Sunday 2011/10/02 Judging closes, winners announced Check out  PyWeek 12 's winners by the way: Loopback : Asteroids + Tower defense. Retro Look. Permissive code license. Loopback - PyWeek #12 Team Winner Lemming : Enough Plumbers + Canabalt??? Hand-drawn horrible ;). Permissive code license. Video: PyWeek #12: Lemming Speed Run The PyWeek guys seem to have figured out the license part of game prototyping well: Lemming for example contains a list of all used art pieces' urls and licenses. Neat! PS: Ludum Dare got 600-1 entries last weekend.

OpenPatrician is a not-yet-playable free implementation in Java of Ascaron's classic The Patrician and The Patrician 2. There are some assets but unfortunately the project's default license is a noncommercial one. OpenMW is moving forward: new blog look, renderer is being refractored, inventory being implemented, record saving too. Alex the Allegator  was part-ported to HTML5  using the melonJS library. I'm #9 on the high score at time of post! :D DusteD , maker of Wizznic! is not dead . Blendswap  now has a slim set of rules for contributors and texture licenses are annoying. Bandit Racer is a car racing and combat game in HTML5, built with GameJS . Comes with track editor and pretty UI. An earlier version multiplayer mode, which will probably come back sooner or later