DevCorner: Underapprechiated game engines

In my never ending search for a FOSS game engine that is usable for game modding with out having to reinvent the wheel (nor requiring to be ...

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SuperTuxKart accepted in GSoC2013!

Google's Summer of Code , is an annual sponsorship of programmers to improve selected open-source programs (or games :D ). This year, qu...

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Lips of Suna 0.6 and other RPG news

So my recent rant resulted in a lively discussion about ARPGs, but sadly not really in any contributions or new contributors for Summoning ...

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Good FOSS 3D action RPGs, nowhere to be found?

Today I got a small rant: So there are a few really prominent types of games which ought to have their FOSS representatives, right? Ok, well...

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Summer of Code: Earn Money Developing Open Source Games

Matt Raykowski , aka sfb, is a community herder for the Ryzom Core project and Summer of Code mentor. Some people may not be familiar with ...

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Complete List of Fosdem Game Dev Resources

A link to some Fosdem Resouces has been already posted here before , but now we have a complete list of available slides and audio and video...

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Dev corner: FOSDEM about Games

Fosdem Game Dev We already mentioned the FOSDEM 2012 role playing game development talk but recently I found links to more open source game...

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Changes in Hardwar development

Possible Hardwar main menu scene Hardwar is a long-term project to remake the 1998 Hardwar - a science fiction flight simulation game. Ther...

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OGRE3D History: 2010

There's a retrospective of 2010 post on OGRE's blog. Here are some interesting FOSS projects they mentioned: Project Name ...

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Open Source 3D Game Engines Updates

Crystal Space 1.4 is out. Features include improved animations ("integrating vertex based animation with skeletal animation") an...

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Open Source Game Engines Updates

OGRE 1.6.0 aka Shoggoth is the newest version of the acclaimed 3D engine. I don't understand anything that's on the changelog , bu...

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English transcription of "Hobby Game Development" (neues, 3sat)

Narrator: On first sight it looks like the commercial online role-playing game Ultima Online. On the second the viewer might spot one or an...

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The early bird

The early bird has to wait for the worm. And when he wanders off a bit bored, he gets back to find some other bird has poached the worm and...

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Sauerbraten, Vega Strike, Project Kilo

Did I not mention this Sauerbraten update ? I don't recall doing so, and I swear it was not a thread in their forum at the weekend desp...

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Beyond The Red Line

Welcome to post number 100 on Free Gamer. Slowly I am finding out how to push blogger to it's limits. The list is starting to look mu...

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Angels Fall First

If you thought yesterday's news was big, Free Gamer comes with an equally impressive post for today! Angels Fall First The prolific arti...

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TA:Spring Rewrite

There's a storm of comotion in the TA:Spring community after the lead developers announced intentions to rewrite the entire Spring engi...

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More Upcoming Releases

There is a release imminent for Mars: Land of No Mercy , which got it's own .org domain name recently. This isometric strategy mech gam...

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Like a Phoenix!

No, Free Gamer has not met a premature demise! I am merely temporarily really, really busy . Still, there were a few notable releases in th...

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