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Great news from the people behind the idTech4 powered stealth FPS The Dark Mod : They are making great steps to leave their Doom3 mod legacy behind and a standalone version should not be all that far from now. New The Dark Mod replacement artwork You can follow the progress here on their forums , and maybe you can also give them an helping hand. Interestingly there are two other recently updated Doom3 mods, that could easily fit in as The Dark Mod mods , e.g. going stand alone with The Dark Mod's help. The first one is a Hexen remake, called Hexen: Edge of Chaos : And the other one is a prequel to the Arx: Fatalis ( engine also FOSS , btw.) game, called Arx: End of Sun : Sadly both of them use proprietary themes (and one could even argue that The Dark Mod is borderline infringing on one too), but I am still looking forward to try out these nice community creations once they become stand-alone!

Lugaid has Stand Alone in the FG forums. An RTS game for Windows, although I'm not sure if it is open source and able to download and play it yet. He says: RTS game inspired by defence games. Project is almost finished, it needs more maps and graphic sets, maybe some more units. At first Interface is quite cumbersome, but not after you get used to it. Fortress Logo I will also note that we have started making progress with Fortress , inspired by the classic DOS game Castles . We have a logo , a very early prototype , and a wiki . Yesterday I compiled this list of gameplay elements that basically describe the key concepts of the game. Somebody has started working on models for the game too. If you are interested, check out what we are doing and throw in your own thoughts in the Fortress forum . It will be an entirely open source project. A skilled artist or two would be really helpful. :-) Despite my involvement (at the moment it looks like I'll be the main programmer)...