Gaming Daily A-Z

Can a game that has "ridiculous" in the title be bad? No. It can not! M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous Shooter Even though I'm no fan of the multiplayer (zero-)gravity-shooter genre, I enjoy playing M.A.R.S. , which features AI enemies and wingmen, various weapon types, upgrades and a pretty cool game mode, where a huge cannon will shoot at the planet of the enemy team of whoever is holding the remote to it. I also think it's darn pretty. BAM! M.A.R.S. uses shaders (but does not require them). The game menu is well-made in both look and feel too. The media license is not specified. Code is GPLed. M.A.R.S. runs on Lin/Win ( get it here ) and uses the SFML library (2.0, I had to get it from SVN). BOOM! If you want to help the project out, you can do so by translating it. English and German translations are available so far. Since SFML 2 has recently been ported to OS X, it probably would be welcome if someone could provide a build as well.

Long time no see! Before you look at the pictures: I can only recommend following the FGD Game Planet and Dev Planet . That is all ;). Games CONS CONS is a NOOB FRIENDLY!!! roguelike written in Lisp. It is 'friendly' because the amount of possible actions is low and they are all tooltip-explained in the main window. I also like the color scheme and simple look. Follow the developer on his blog . I know I do. Xenowar Xenowar is a simple-gfx squad tactics game and it runs on Windows and Android. Didn't try it yet. skunks is a "3D game with cars, stunts and software rendering, based on Open Dynamics Engine" by Matei Petrescu, who also brought us simple3d/simcar . Contests SDLTutorials.com is hosting a little top-down car racing game contest (runs until 31. Dec) Game On 2010 is an open web game contest started by Mozilla Labs. Deadline: January 11, 2011. [ Rules ] Assets OpenGameArt is getting bigger and bigger and nicer and nicer and their forums cover more an...

We need contributors, contributors, contributors to misquote a famous internet meme ;) So if you want to be a new author writing wacky (or wicked) articles here on FreeGamer, contact us! Don't let this Blog die! And hey it's a good excuse to be lazy and not work on actual open-source games :D FOSS game news So what kind of gaming related news have piled up in my list during the last month (yes it has been nearly a month since goat's post :( )? Freeroid recently got a major update, bringing it up to version 0.14 . Another major update was given to us by the great Hedgewars team, so who needs worms if he can have hedgehogs? They also make better splashes under my car...*hust*. Forget what I just said, FreeGamer minion! Concentrate on the news I bring regarding the the FOSS MMORPG Ryzom . You might remember that this game has gone free as in freedom (but not as in beer) some time ago, and besides various improvements , it now resulted in a working Linux client . So go and t...

Julius' endless poking has sent me over the cliff of post-guilt, fortunately, lots of projects have been jumping up and down for attention of late, so I have quite a bit of content to redeem myself with. RPGs OSARE OSARE showing off powers Pfunked and recently released an update to the promising OSARE This brings "powers" to the game, the classic Hack 'n Slash abilities that encompass magic, melee and ranged special attacks. No skimping on them here either, intricate systems such as block-counter based attacks and time stopping magic spells definitely differentiate OSARE's powers from the more generic "Do x damage" spells more commonly found. The new powers do bring in a bit of a balance issue though, but such is the nature of RPGs Dawn RPG Dawn RPG Dawn-RPG has also been updating steadily throughout the year; I kind of forgot about the project and should be punished appropriately :P Main recent additions are sound an music (from the illustrious OGA...

Hello again from the dark side of the moon (at least it's equally remote ;) ). Today I have some assorted news of projects previously featured and one new one. Lets start with the latter: ArcanumAlive or OpenArcanum is a engine re-implemention and assets replacement project for the game Arcanum . It somewhat recently also got a Linux port , and seems to be progressing nicely so far/ again . ArcanumAlive Some RTS news Totally unrelated, the previously featured MegaGlest has been updated to version 3.3.7 which brings a series of nice improvements to the game (including a MacOSX port). Some time ago a much improved version of the WW2 themed RTS Spring1944 was released, and the engine it is based on also got a bunch of updates lately. Finally some FPS news For the readers with a short attention span, I left the FPS news for the very last (so that they don't read it :p). Recently Irritant the creator of AlienArena released some news about the upcoming version, called 2011. The...

Quite literally, as I am posting this via a satellite connection from the other side of the world ;) But if those lazy co-authors spend all their time playing games instead of bringing you the latest FreeGaming news, then I have to come to the rescue no matter what! For those that are disappointed that the blog isn't updated more regularly... well tough luck :p There is our planet feed though, and you can also hang out on the forums... or *gasp* try to get involved in a project yourself! Mission X, side scrolling action This pretty nice, old school, side scrolling shooter (written in Java) can be found here . Check out the video below: Mission X Lots of eye-candy over at the 0 A.D. webpage Amazing amount of nice looking stuff, and progress updates (f.e. implementation of the "shadow of war" feature) has been recently added to the 0 A.D. website. I know you are probably following that game anyways... but a quick reminder can hurt ;) 0 A.D. landscape Red Eclipse Sadly I c...

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...