Gaming Daily A-Z

A link to some Fosdem Resouces has been already posted here before , but now we have a complete list of available slides and audio and video recordings from the event: Event Slides Audio Video Speaker Xonotic: The road to 1.0 Yes No No Merlijn Hofstra FreedroidRPG: Anatomy of a RPG Yes Yes Yes Arthur Huillet Unknown Horizons: Data-Driven and Component-Based Game-Entities Yes Yes No Thomas Kinnen WorldForge: The Dynamic Data Driven Worlds Yes Yes No Alistair Riddoch Pandora: Mobile Linux Computer with Gaming Gontrols No No No Michael Mrozek Wesnoth: Balancing a Game the Open Source Way Yes Yes No Jeremy Rosen Ogre3d: Getting Started with Game Development Yes Yes No Erik Ogenvik Gluon: Game Creation and Distribution Yes Yes No Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen The Future of Open Web Gaming Yes No No Rob Hawkes

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

Neotron Games These guys have compiled quite a selection of quality, complete games. Actually, to such an extent, one could say that they are one of the most prolific open source game devs out there, even if not all of their works are completely "open". Most of their games are compatible with the GPX-Wiz, and hopefully the Pandora once Bennu , the language they use for developing their games, gets an official port. Before we were Dead : Under the sea RPG Play as one of 4 fishy characters, all with their own individual abilities and personalities in an atmospheric underwater world. Explore the multitude of scenic aquatic environs and immerse yourself in the lore presented through branching NPC dialogue and interaction, the choices you make being apparent as the game progresses. This of course means that there is a lot of text to read, so I wouldn't quite recommend the game if you just want a quick blast of arcadey action... Nether Dimensional Runner : Trippy Platformer Fa...

Lavirinto 3D 0.6.0 Lavirinto 3D brings Zen wisdom, Pipes and Pac-Man together. It's a 3D version of the game Zenji [ video ]. The colorful levels and friendly music made me quite enjoy the stay and I even finished all campaigns. I noticed only one rudeness of the game: if you loose all your lives, you have to re-play all the levels of the campaign. :| The game is written in Java (using lwjgl ) and thus runs on every machine with a Java runtime environment installed. Just use the .sh or .bat script! The code is GPL and most of the media too. Some sounds were taken from Soundsnap, which is an non-free resource, and will be replaced soon. Four people were involved in the creation: One lead designer, developer and visual artist, one assistant texture artist, one assistant developer and one musician . I think the end product is handsome. Balazar 3, 2D version Balazar 3 was released. It's a room-based slash and hack game, with some nice graphics in both 2D and 3D mode. It also su...