Gaming Daily A-Z

An interesting mixture to "pay what you want" and "ransom funding" has recently surfaced with the Open Bundle : You can buy all the offered game art and use them under the CC-by license and if the total threshold is reached (10k, 1 day remaining, 9.3k already pledged) all the game art (2d sprites and music) will be officially released under the CC0. A split of the funds is btw. shared with the EFF and Creative Commons . For those wondering: no, it is not done by our friends of OpenGameArt.org , but they think it is a good project anyways . Interestingly the creator is also thinking of expanding the idea: Do you want to host your own "public domain ransom"? I'd love to help you! Email me at nick@commonly.cc P.S.: While we are on last day notices: Today ends the registration period for the Unvanquished summer tournament . Also check out their latest Alpha 17 .

image labeled "Text-Based Game": ASCII-Art Female with a o_o expression. Buttons saying "Attack" and "Glare" next to her, the first being selected Moosader - creator, host and leading contributor to OpenArt - also hosts game development competitions on her community's forum. The current theme is "Text-Based Game" and will be over in 9 days, so feel free to join! There are 25 projects in it so far. Make a text-based game, like Zork, Adventure, Nethack, or something completely your own! I spotted some free, open source projects among them [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but didn't have time to take a closer look. There's parody, Lua, C++ and JavaScript represented is all I can tell so far.

I'm looking forward to the LGM this year . Bart, admin of OpenGameArt will talk about running libre graphics projects . You can view previous year's talk videos here . Version 3 of Blendswap is live! But the site has some server load problems . OpenArt , Moosader 's own take on game resource sharing has been updated and has content under CC0 and CC-BY v3 licenses. It received a visual update a while ago.