Gaming Daily A-Z

WWWWhaaaat?! 3 days since I last posted? Disgraceful. Oh well, trying and make this one interesting I guess! ;-) Blood Frontier Blood Frontier , a single player FPS using the Sauerbraten engine , has seen it's first alpha release become available for download . As it's a Sauer mod, it works on all major platforms. It aims to provide an atmospheric single player experience with depth, one of the major missing open source genres. The game development will be open source but I don't think there's anything in SVN yet as the main author doesn't know how to use SVN - but that'll change. I think games will start emerging from the Sauer stables now the engine has matured a bit. There are thousands of game modders out there producing content for free for commercial titles, and I think Sauer could attract a lot of those if the community makes a lot of noise about it. Of course, it's not perfect, but community projects can be improved and cater to the community...

Nope, I'm not dead, just caught up in doing real work so time has been at a premium lately. Eat the Whistle Also not dead is arcade football game Eat the Whistle . They have migrated to SVN as they build up to a new release. 'They' could mean just 'he' or just 'her' as I'm not quite sure how many people are working on EtW but the good news is it is being worked on. It's a fun game to play but suffered from being very buggy so hopefully this release will bring it a new lease of stable life. What has been dead has been my Freshmeat inbox - no notable game releases for a while apart from Widelands , Bub Brothers , ja2-stracciatella , Wormux , and Xarvh. And those are just the ones on the Game Tome. Still, like I say, Freshmeat has been quiet. ;-) Xarvh is not linked because it has been renamed to Everborn . It's a turn-based multiplayer fantasy strategy game, with real-time battles, born as a clone of Simtex's Master of Magic. In case yo...