Gaming Daily A-Z

Busy for a while moving... and the crickets take over FreeGamer it seems *chirp* *chirp* :D Anyways, I am partially back in business, so a warm HELLO from East Africa!!! So nothing much to report right now, except that there is a really nice cinematic trailer available for the FOSS RTS ZeroK (which is based on the Spring engine ): They also released a new version not all that long ago, so give it a try if you haven't so far. Stay tuned, as I struggle to get into my regular FOSS-Games blogging habit again ;)

...FreeGamer? No not this time :p It's rather that the Spring RTS engine ran into some trouble with their long overdue 0.83 version and now decided to release 0.84 instead ;) Along with it comes also a new Zero-K release (0.9), which prompted one of their players to make a nice new trailer in anticipation: Zero-K fan trailer So...that's it for today ;) P.S.: Check out Zero-K's Planetwars metagame too. P.P.S.: Also Spring related... someone on their boards is looking for people to take over the development of another quite nice RTS game: Conflict Terra .

Back from holidays... and no new post on the blog in the mean time??? qudobup is getting lazy :p So before we lose all our loyal readers (e.g. the blog authors themselves *chirp* *chirp*), here a quick update: Zero-K , the Spring-Engine using RTS game, got a bunch uf new releases lately... all the way up to version 0.8.13.1 by the time of writing this. Try it out if you liked Total Annihilation back in the days :D However, the main reason for me writing about this is the cool multi-touch (tablet) interface someone coded for the spring engine and showcased with Zero-K: Zero-K multitouch Still a bit rough around the edges as you can see... but this shows that RTS games might have a bright future on tablet-pcs!

Quick Sunday afternoon rundown of recent strategy game updated... 0AD got a new beta 5 release , which improvements in rendering & AI code, a completely new faction (Iberians), and a new map: MegaGlest also got updated recently ( Version 3.5.1 ), bringing various fixes and performance improvements. Furthermore I can report that both the sable and the development version of Battle for Wesnoth have been updated, and I strongly recommend everyone (who has not played this game for a while) to retry this classic in the newest development version. EvolutionRTS , a nice looking (but sadly CC-by-NC-ND licensed) game based on the SpringRTS engine also saw an update to version 1.3 this month ( check out this gameplay video ). Hmmm, what else? Ahh, UFO:AI was ported to Android , and and the change of Warzone2100 from SDL to qt (which is not exactly a game framework) raised some eyebrows, but will probably make the game more easily portable and better integrated into your favorite deskto...

Another game from the well of innovation that is the SpringRTS community, Contact aims to be an Open-Source squad based RTS . It uses models from the DOTA-like attempt "Engines of War" which unfortunately never really got anywhere, other than a couple of nice mechs. The Contact team released a beta on the 25 Dec last yea r, so it's not exactly breaking news, but the project is still moving forward and could use a couple of eyes if anyone is interested in it. Forum Thread with more screenies