Gaming Daily A-Z

Besiege Besiege is a space based real time strategy game where you conquer planets to let them produce new ships (and eventually research new technologies for you). Somewhat inspired by Eufloria and Galcon. The description resembles Qonk . The project did one thing that I think is very, very right: BIG SCREENSHOT ON FRONT PAGE . The ardor3d game runs on Linux this way: java -Djava.library.path=native -cp lib/*:Besiege.jar net.playbesiege.Besiege Besiege 1.0 Beta gameplay with sound

I make heavy use of YouTube and would like to know if this is an issue. Are you unable to play back YT videos? Don't you like videos and prefer more screenshots and text? Comment at the post's bottom or email me ! If you do have troubles with YT video viewing, perhaps TinyOgg might save you. :) [ example ] Doryen Arena is a real-time arena roguelike-like.. You buy weapons, you select and use skills, you kill and then you die. The end. :) Note: This video is sped up by approx. factor 3 for technical reasons and does not represent actual game speed. So-orry! Pyromancer , by the same developer, looks more fun to me, but I have not had the chance to test it yet. Both projects are visually rather impressive. Pretty lighting and fading and moving health numbers... Both use libtcod , which is a "fast, portable and uncomplicated API for roguelike developpers providing an advanced true color console, input, and lots of other utilities frequently used in roguelikes". Yet aga...

Quantum Quantum is a simple, minimalist-look rts game in which you try to control a network of planets. It can be played in multiplayer mode against human players and provides a Java Webstart package for a one-click start (works for me). It is a clone of Dyson . The game reminds me of qonk a lot. Both share a similar look, are about conquering planets with the help of dots and the computer enemy can be hard to overcome. Quantum is more complex, as unit creation has to be managed but also provides an automatic waypoints mechanic. Qonk's planets are moving, which make the game a bit more fast-paced. KGB Training Simulator, PyDay 6 entry PyDay #6 just finished. The 24 hour python game development competition's topic was "surveillance", which mostly resulted in "move around and avoid triangular fields of view" games. To rate all nine games , you will have to register and open the projects' pages. Caterpillar Fever Dream, PyDay 5 winner Two weeks ago, Py...

I'm really quite strapped for time right now so again this is brief. Stargus , the Stratagus-based project to get native Starcraft on Linux, is close to release . If the screenshots are anything to go by then Stargus will be pretty playable with this release. The latest Freedroid RPG release looks nice. The project seemed to have stalled earlier in the year but there's lots of contributors these days which is nice to see. Want to make games but not a programmer? Maybe Mokoi Gaming is for you. The project is in it's infancy but it's already usable although the documentation is a little sparse. Still, it all seems well done so a bit of user feedback I'm sure will be warmly received. Tennix now has SVG graphics. A very concise concept is turning into a nice little game to while away the occasional onset of boredom. Also another simple game shaping up nicely is Qonk , with 5-minute galactic conquest gameplay. No screenshots. No time to find any. :-( Edit: a...

Shaders seem all the rage these days. Now Thunder n Lightening has support for them too just days after Danger from the Deep implemented shader support. Wavey reflecty shiney water. I smell pretty FOSS games! :-) Boson Actually the first FOSS game I remember getting such fancy effects was Boson . A 3D RTS, the codebase suffers from KDE dependencies which limit portability somewhat as well as making it a pain to install on Linux systems without KDE. Given how cool it looks, I'm sure they'd be much further on as a community if it was easier to install on non-KDE systems. I'm sure they would get much more developer interest if the game were available for Windows and Mac OS X and available in a format other than tarball for Linux . Somebody just pointed me in the direction of Qonk , a space strategy game. It's in the early stages of development but has a much smaller scope than typical space strategy projects like FreeOrion , so is already very playable. Games onl...