Gaming Daily A-Z

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...

The first major community effort is coming out of the FreeGameDev community. It has been identified that the major weakness in creating quality looking Free games is the lack of Free art - either hard to find or just non-existent. So, we will be creating the first Common Media Project. As yet untitled and unorganised, it will be an effort to create a set of quality artwork for a specific genre - the fantasy genre is looking like the choice of the involved artists - that will be hosted in an easy to find / use place so that Free game developers can easily use this common media to create the basis of their own game before branching off in their own artistic direction once they attract contributors. Games like Scourge , JCRPG , Xarvh , 8 Kingdoms, and the many other open source fantasy/medieval games out there. Speaking of new projects, FIFEngine and Zero Projekt have announced that they will collaborate to create a commercial quality techdemo (i.e. mini-game) that will showcase FIF...