Gaming Daily A-Z

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...

Following up the recent release of Thunder & Lightening , the action flight combat game, the author has posted a video on the website showcasing a major feature of the next release - an aircraft carrier. It looks cool and TnL is looking like an excellent game. Definitely close to the top of my games-to-play-when-I-upgrade-my-PC list. What do you get whewn you cross-breed Elite and Space Invaders? Scum of the Universe : "a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy." It is open source and runs on Windows - but if you are feeling charitable, interestingly, you can still buy the game. From the screenshots , it looks fun. Bah, too many games, not enough time for Charlie to play them! The other day I mentioned Damnation of the Gods , a Dungeon Master clone. Sadly I jumped the gun a little as development has been inactive for a year or so. However one diligent reader attempted to get it running and overcame a few compilation problems but has yet...