Gaming Daily A-Z

Small retro-style quick news today, so that you don't hear the crickets here on FreeGamer: There is a new game available for the FOSS classic engine Stratagus (read up on the history of it here ). It is called Aleona's Tales: Looks very familiar, right? Yes Grandpa! You can download it here (only windows builds) and discuss with its creator on the Stratagus forums . Graphics are sadly a mix of various Free and non-Free licenses... but at least you get it for freeeee... video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkNRDDzcQNs

In the first of a new wave of Free Gamer content, Ingo Ruhnke aka Grumbel and one of the most prolific open source game developers around has kindly taken the time to do an interview. Please note that Ingo's first language is not English, and I've not modified his answers in any way other than to sanitize links. I have made a few notes on his answers at the end of the interview. Many thanks to Ingo for taking time to answer my questions, especially in so much detail - much more than I could have hoped for! :-) Just in case you left your brain at home today, the questions are bold and prefaced with a Q - and the answers, er, not bold with no Q. Q. In my best Cilla Black accent, "What's yer name an' where d'ya come from?" My Name is Ingo Ruhnke in the real world, on IRC and web forums I use to call myself Grumbel. I am coming from good old Germany from a town called Bielefeld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy Q. And what do you do for a ...

ScummVM FIFE OpenTTD Today is a game engine special on Free Gamer. These are the projects that take your favourite [old school] titles and provide not only a native port but also fix all the nasties that had you saving and loading or even resetting your PC in the past. I remember the days of autoexec.bat and making every byte of that 640k count. Well these won't give you that fun but at least you get to play your old games! Let's start with the exciting FIFE: Flexible Isometric Fallout-like Engine . Started as an attempt to make a Fallout engine, it is becoming more ambitious and there are even rumours of a FIFE-based game in development. It should be able to run fan-made Fallout mods like the aptly named Fan Made Fallout . I have a pet favourite among RPG engines - GemRB . (I respect the steady progress on a difficult project.) This Infinity Engine emulator aims to be able to run the Baldur's Gate titles and even improve the experience they offer. The development...