Gaming Daily A-Z

Check out this interesting (somewhat recently GPLv3 re-licensed) game Blackvoxel : As you can see it has some interesting mechanic which they call " Molecular Voxel Interaction Engine ". As seen in the trailer above, it basically allows you to automate crafting, resulting in interesting "programmable" factory setups. Of course this might sound a bit too much like actual work and not fun... but given the big fan scene for the closed source game Factorio , I would say it can be more fun that it looks at first ;) Blackvoxel itself probably needs to be a bit more of a game instead of "just" a sandbox, but there is big promise in the overall concept, so give it a try :)

Remember  Justin Nichol's amazing Portrait Kickstarter ? He's up to no good again: Horde of Cuteness! is an ongoing crowdfunded high resolution character icon collection and the indiegogo campaign will add 2 heroes, 5 monsters, and 3 boss monsters chosen by the backers. All the characters will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license, and will be made available as .pngs with transparent backgrounds, and will have include .kra or .xcf source files for editing the characters yourself. All new images will be 2000px by 2000px.  There's a month left and only 590$ out of 1000$ missing. Back the icon collection on indiegogo .

First off (and you probably read it elsewhere before): The awesome Godot game engine got a really awesome 2.0 release a few weeks ago. It also got independent of it's original developers (who stay active in development), and the first larger commercial game with it was released on Steam just a few days ago. Fresh of the press is a FOSS release of an pretty awesome competitor though: The Atomic Game Engine was just released fully under the MIT license ! Its render engine is a fork of the pretty nice Urho3D renderer, but it includes an cross-platform integrated development environment similar to Godot: Looks nice, but where is the Linux binary release? :( Dive into the source code here . Similar to Godot it features some neat platform support: Linux, Android, WebGL, Windows, iOS and OSX (resorted for significance ;) ); but unlike it you have much more and more common scripting languages at your disposal: JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, and C# scripting in the works. Especially the l...

Great news for HTML5 game developers: a few days ago Superpowers was released under the ISC license . What is Superpowers? A game development platform (an integrated editor but you can collaborate in realtime online; how cool is that! :D ) for making HTML5 games using TypeScript (a superset of Javascript) . But you will also be able to work with other languages, so far support for the well known LÖVE2D is available . Learn more in this video: The source is available here and there is also an repository with a few sample games . If you like what they are doing, please consider becoming a supporter . Looking forward to your new HTML5 games!

Lasers, rockets, shields, health regeneration, pixels. You know. The good stuff. Just nicely packaged with levels of just the right duration and hardness, persistent upgrades, shaders, reverb... Two buttons are enough to play, since that was one of the themes of Ludum Dare #34 , in which the game came #74 among 1638 jam entries. Super Space Invader Review Supser Space Invader was made with  LÖVE  (v0.9) and thus runs on Linux, OS X, Windows. The source is available on GitHub under  zlib/libpng .

Over ten years after the last stable release of SuperTux (0.1.3 released July 2005) the SuperTux team have announced the release of the first stable version in the Milestone 2 series. Compared to 0.1.3, this release features: a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, ... support for translations in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations Bonus Island III, a for now unfinished Forest Island and the development levels in Incubator Island a final boss in Icy Island new and improved soundtracks and sound effects new badguys, bonuses and power-ups (air-, earth- and ice-flower) a halloween tilemap new graphic effects (glowing objects, particles, ...) levels and worldmaps are scriptable using squirrel much more game objects: trampolines, switches, portable stones, wind, moving platforms, ... - most of them have scripting APIs improved statistics many invisible changes, like unit tests, efficiency ...

Marbles have fascinated the population of the blue marble for centuries. Today, we take a look at three digital variants that are open source and playable cross-platform. Veraball The newest addition to the group of open source ball-rolling games is minimal and was made using the Godot engine. Rock and jazz music accompanies your through the only two levels so far. None of them are super hard, making Veraball the most beginner-friendly game of the bunch. Veraball gameplay Windows (both portable and installer) and Linux releases are available but since Godot Engine runs on Mac OS X, you can play it on that platform as well using the source. irrlamb A magical engine powers the blue sphere from the inside, allowing it to roll and jump without reasonable explanation. Its goal is to touch other glass balls filled with yellow light by balancing towards them. You steer the blue sphere. But to what end? Deliver the coup de grâce to failed experiments? Free trapped spirits? Harvest sle...