Open Source Games Still Alive

Octower! BAM! Word War Vi runs on Pandora ! (Have a feed !) Split-screen! BAM! Egoboo alive, kicking and now has a pretty website! Lazza ma...

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STK 0.7.1, CC to OF, SaRII 2.2.0,jCRPG, CC TXT, OSM and TitA

SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 released! [ great changelog! ] Former CubeCreate lead dev will now work on OctaForge (so far #octaforge  chat is the onl...

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Hedgewars, JCRPG, and 0AD

Hmm, been a while, but since nobody is using my opensourcegames reddit yet, I'd better pitch in a bit here. Qubodup and Julius have be...

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Contributors, contributors, contributors

The development structure of FOSS game projects can be a one-man show, it can be semi-closed by having a fixed team and little web presence,...

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Open source 3D RPG updates

There has been some activity in the most prominent free (as in freedom) software 3D role-playing games DungeonHack, jClassicRPG and Radakan....

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Commerce & Open Source Games: Libre Music, Tremulous Shirts

Here is some commercial free software gaming news, which I partially failed to deliver on time. Paul's Music Liberation Experiment is a...

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Some things on my radar

"Damn Free Gamer is popular." So says the L-echo developer, as well as posting graphic illustration on the project home page. L...

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jClassicRPG's and Howitzer Skirmish's donation histories

While the the tank simulator game Howitzer Skirmish is 300 USD (222 EUR) away from being GPLed, jClassicRPG's developer is getting a ...

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Sandbox becoming free, more free hardware: aurora

Levelhead I don't really know yet how to play Levelhead , but it has GPL -ed code and CC-BY-SA -ed art assets. This means it's good,...

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jClassicRPG's major breakthrough in the field of playable!

jClassicRPG detail jClassicRPG 'Vigilante Eye' is out for us to get . The game engine is nearing completeness, dialogs and a quest ...

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Ludum Dare 12 and jClassicRPG updates

Ludum Dare 12 starts in three hours. There are three lists of hints for python game programmers who are going to join the competition: SolH...

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Back from dusmania, right to RubyWeekend...

Surt's goblin Surt contributed the first model to OpenDungeons (and it looks good!) The model also was quickly incorporated by Timong...

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Good Morning Free Gamer

Well it's been a while since I chipped in. Q has been doing a fantastic job, I'm sure you will agree, of keeping us up to date with...

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News salad

In case you're one of those who use youtube as a music player, now you can use it to listen to Wesnoth music . The one-year-old, made-fo...

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Radakan is pretty

Radakan 's devs have decided to use the jME aka jMonkeyEngine , just like JCRPG does! Neat! I admit that I was expecting the project to...

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Adventures, art, design...

New art for Adonthell There has been slight activity on Adonthell's mailing list: James Nash , an artist of the team, announced some new...

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Cruise Control

I was close to putting some kind of melodramatic title like "the beginning of the end" but it would have been, well, melodrama so ...

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Match of the Day

Open Football Open World Soccer Open Football development has resumed lately. I downloaded from svn and compiled, and whilst it's not ...

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Wesnoth Battling Onwards

Battle for Wesnoth Well the big release of the weekend is Battle for Wesnoth 1.4 ( changelog ). Not too much to say about this game that h...

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