Gaming Daily A-Z

Well, well... my prayers are being answered. There is an open source Dungeon Keeper clone inspired game. Dungeon Digger has just 1 week ago had it's inaugral release. The author seems really eager (as happens during the inception of most OSS games) but the progress has been rapid enough to already attract a small community so hopefully it will reach a critical mass of developers if it gets enough attention. Still there is a lot to do before it is a playable game but patience is a virtue. Thanks go to Ben Schram for pointing me in the direction of Dungeon Digger. One game that I enjoyed toying with this week was the Ghouls & Ghosts Remake (that's a Freshmeat link on purpose). It brought back memories of nights spent sleeping over at friends houses as a kid and racing through Super Nintendo titles. However it is currently fiendishly hard. I'd like to see a bit of game balancing and also usage of Scale2x or another similar technique for improving the [resoluti...

No, I haven't ignored Free Gamer, I just haven't really come across much interesting. It's like all the interesting projects crawled under some rocks and went into hibernation. I guess post-Christmas everybody is busy with work and parking fines so need to take a break from creating free games for us to play. Bastards. ;-) I could just keep going on about Foo x.y release etc but really that's what the Game Tome is for. I need to sit down and do some reviews I guess... XWars is kinda fun. Windows only though. :( A drink with that? :) I really wish the Freeciv team would release another 2.1 beta. It's been so long since the last one. I'll try and think of something more creative for the next post to Free Gamer, instead of some random whining. Now my cup of tea is cold. [cartman] GOD DAMN IT! [/cartman] :P