Gaming Daily A-Z

Ancient Beast 0.3 is here ( blog post , forum announcement )! This gorgeously drawn game makes another step towards the vision of its developers. Heya! It’s been too long since the last release, about 3 years; long time indeed. We’ve finally repaired the prototype and added several new playable creatures, along with more features, goodies and bug fixes, not to mention that all the old units have been pretty much revamped. A ton of work, but it was totally worth it! Ancient Beast is a player vs player turn based strategy game played online where you command all manner of creatures (3D printed! Beware the power of playing God!) in a battle for supremacy amongst the ruins of the apocolypse. Or something like that. Sounds fun. :) Ancient Beast 0.3 Deceiver (formerly "The Yearning") has been rebranded in its latest update . GPL licensed code is available on github, and there's a steady history of updates going back 2 years, but the assets remain copyright of the developer. ...

Gosh that tumbleweed is clogging up the blog! I logged into github today and saw this highly active project in my feed called The Yearning .  A hybrid singleplayer / multiplayer game about spider drones and the meaning of life. If that doesn't mean too much to you (it didn't to me!) then fortunately you can check out this gif of some gameplay.  Lots of other projects continue on strongly. Then there's others that need a bit of TLC. Somebody is having a bit of a go with reviving Open City , which could hopefully lead to making it a bigger project with more contributors later down the line. Then there's somebody reviving Lips of Suna . That's the great thing about open source - there's always a chance somebody is interested enough to take on the mantle should the original developer move on to other things.