Gaming Daily A-Z

So it seems that Scorched 3D , Wormux , Hedgewars , and Atomic Tanks are all clones of inspired by... Worms ? No. Scorched Earth ? Nah. Gorillas ? Nope. Tank Wars ? No. That's right, their roots go all the way back to a 1980 on the Apple II under the name Artillery . Even earlier ascii versions from as early as 1976 are reported. Now that's real history - all other games (pong and chess excepted) are modern upstarts. ;-) Atomic Tanks home • screenshots • download One of the older and more mature open source Artillery clones, with version 0.5 first available in January of 2003, Atomic Tanks doesn't seem to have the online presence of it's contemporaries. This is probably because it doesn't look that nice, with garish colours, coarse widgets, and almost badly drawn sprites. Update: Markus comments, "I am sure that the graphics and such in Atomic Tanks are intentional. It is a fairly faithful reproduction of the original Scorched Earth, and for those of us...

Thanks to Nicklas Marcusson who took the time to email me his findings on running Gusanos on Linux . Without further ado: I saw in your previous blog entry that you mentioned gusanos and I have been looking for a good liero like game for linux, and man I have to say this game is the cat's pyjamas :D It is a shame that they have not made it easy to find the documentation on how to compile it for linux and what mods there is etc. I thought I'd share my findings: Build gusanos under linux: http://gusanos.sourceforge.net /docs/doku.php?id=main:installation_docs:linux How to fix a compile error with the latest cvs source code: http://comser.liero.org.pl /forum/index.php?topic=250.msg2549#msg2549 Mods for gusanos: http://powerhuhn.net/depot/gusanos/mods/ Fanzine covering the latest and greatest news regarding Gusanos: http://powerhuhn.net/depot/gusanos/lieromag/ Video of the upcoming Quake mod for gusanos: http://powerhuhn.net/depot/gusanos/videos/trailerg3a1.avi

What is Mistlands ? It's a graphically impressive 3d open source rpg! At the end of July they released Milestone 5, just over a year since their last release. It's online-only, I think, which is a shame. Single player games just aren't the flavour these days. I feel obliged to mention Gusanos . Thanks to Amos ML for the link and apologies for taking more than a month to post it. Gusanos is a Liero clone for modern operating systems. (Liero requires DOS or DOS emulation.) Whilst the Windows download was easy to get to, I couldn't see an obvious download for non-Windows platforms despite the homepage promise of portability. For those not familiar with the classic Liero, here's some gameplay videos of Gusanos. Think Worms vs Quake. There was an update to Trackballs , making it more fun for younger kids which is good news for me and my 6 year old. For the adventurous, there's a 0.2 pre-release of Battles of Antargis which is coming along nicely. There...