Gaming Daily A-Z

Not very X-mas like at my current place of residence, but there are just so many good things coming to the FreeGamer enthusiast right now! But I am short on time and on a crappy internet connection... so only text for you guys tonight :p So, as a follow up the the recently mentioned Alpha 0.3 release of 0AD and their donation drive, UbuntuGamer has now published a pretty nice interview with one of the 0AD contributors . Their donation drive is also still running, so if you have some money to spare, head over here . They are still a long way from the target, so don't be shy :) ZeroBallistics 2.0 So why is there an early X-mas? Well I just got the hot news that there has been a 2.0 release of the ZeroBallistics FOSS game !!! Definity some nice new features, but have a look at their release announcement yourself here . War§ow 0.6 and AlienArena2011 Two pretty big releases also, but since I always get snubbed a bit for mentioning these games with non-FOSS media around here I will mak...

Rejoice! Now you can become the CEO of a multinational evil energy empire on your home PC. Build as many nuclear power plants as you always wished, destroy the world's climate with coal electrification and make a big advertisement campaign to greenwash your evil plans with some wind-mills ;) Energy Tycoon You can download this great looking game called Energy Tycoon , for Windows and Linux, and the source-code is available under a MIT/BSD like license. It includes some non-free parts however (e.g. irrklang AFAIK) and the media license is unclear, but it's rare that such a polished game shows up as open-source more or less out of nowhere. Quick selection of other news A rather interesting GPL licensed racing project was recently released for the Blender game engine (BGE): SAAB-91 Virtual Race . Interesting especially because it seems to have some sort of official support by the designers of the car, but currently it is still at a very early stage. It's also nice to see th...

Ok today I have updates for two real FOSS gems. First of all the long promised update on ZeroBallistics : the former indi, now FOSS tank shooter. A few weeks ago thy made all the game (including even .blend model source files!) available under the GPLv2 (and the media also under CC-BY-SA ) so even the most hardcore FOSS enthusiasts will be pleased :) After some trouble compiling it (more on that later) I made a nice game-play video today (sorry for the low frame-rate, but my PC wasn't quite up to the task): ZeroBallistics game-play Pretty neat, isn't it? The developers are currently looking into getting their master-server and website back up running soon, but are also looking for more people to help them out! There is especially one problem that needs to be solved however: Currently it still depends on the un-free Raknet3 for networking, so it's not possible to distribute GPL binaries. There is an older GPL version of Raknet2 which could be maybe used ( we talked about it...

Lets start with the big news for today :) A new version of Cube2:Sauerbraten was released today: Justice Edition ! Changes include two new player-models, 30 new maps, a mini radar and the new hold and efficiency game modes. For a full change log click here . The blue base! The new game mode "efficiency" gives you a set amount of ammunition and all weapons, and you can only "reload" when re-spawning and in the "hold" mode you get points when holding the flag for 30 seconds for your team Upcoming changes in AlienArena In this other open-source online arena FPS (sadly also with un-free media) some major changes in the rendering engine have been announced recently. Version 7.45 will include the new IQM skeletal animation format, which speeds up and increases the rendering quality tremendously on all somewhat new GPUs! Furthermore changes to the shadowing code have been made: Improved self shadowing Edit (07/29/2010): 7.45 was released today, get it here . ...