Gaming Daily A-Z

In the second Free Gamer interview - over 2 years since the first with grumbel - serial Free game developer Steven Carlyle-Smith (UK) aka Me_Programmer Games aka Steve16384 was kind enough to take the time to reply in detail to my questions about his development activities. Steve has created a plethora of Free games over the years. Whilst they have struggled to gain mindshare - usually he moves on at speed to new projects before completing others - there's a lot of content to peruse and I thought his experiences were more than worth tapping for advise to budding game developers. He has created all his games with little or no community help other than occasionally reusing resources from other projects. He also maintains blog on his development efforts which is often witty . You can ask questions / get support / give feedback for Steve's games in the new FreeGameDev forum for Me_Programmer Games . There you can also find an exhaustive list of his playable game projects, i...

Laser Tactics is the new name for Nuclear Graveyard. It's a turn based 3D squad tactics game, originally a remake of Laser Squad in 3D that has since transcended the initial goal of being a remake. The author is fairly frustrated at the lack of interest in the game because it doesn't fit the standard mold. If you want to try something a bit tactical and a bit different to the usual FPS or strategy style of game. There were quite a few links in the last post with little description of them. OpenFracas Pathman Asteroid Wars OpenFracas is like an advanced version of Risk. What it actually is , is a rebirth of the game Fracas which was open sourced but is writtin in VB6, which is frankly a bit of a rubbish language for anything other than win32 forms. There's a new development release of Oolite ( announcement + Mac , Linux , Windows ), the 3D space flight adventure game. I'd seen in many places concern that Oolite development was dead, so this is a delightful re...