Assorted news #1024

*hrmmpf* New FreeOrion 0.43 release . Unvanquished Alpha 18 . Some news from the standalone idTech4 Hexen remake . Open-source reimplementat...

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Looking to fund working on OpenGameArt.org full-time.

Hey folks! Just a quick note.  I'm looking to fund work on OpenGameArt.org full time (probably via Kickstarter or similar) once my curre...

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Liberated Pixel Cup July 2012: Coding Phase

The Content Creation Phase of the Liberated Pixel Cup is over! You might want to ignore this blog post and read their  announcement  instea...

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Liberated Pixel Cup is a go!

This weekend the Liberated Pixel Cup started its art contest, which will run until the 30th of June. You can check out the style guide and ...

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Last day to support the LPC!

While we are talking about crowd-funded game-dev assets: The Liberated Pixel Cup has almost reached its funding goal, but today is the last...

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Cube Train, Frogatto development and LPC

Today is another session of: "Look what I found in my FG spam folder" ;) But this time I am actually adding a lot of nice other st...

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Open Source Textures

OpenGameArt's texture section just received an update. There now is a category tree and files from texture packs are also available as ...

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Announcing the Liberated Pixel Cup!

I'm excited to announce that OpenGameArt.org is will be teaming up this summer with the Free Software Foundation and the Creative Comm...

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Why Free Culture could be Good for the Games Business

Today I'd like to talk about how free culture can be (perhaps counter-intuitively) good for the commercial games business.  I'm usin...

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Dev Corner: Crowdfunding, OpenGameArt and Kickstarter

Donations: Commercial use of Free Software and Libre Art Kickstarter for Game Dev I'm sure you heard the amazing  Kickstarter news  ;) D...

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Crowd-Funded Open Source RPG Portraits Set DONE!

Justin Nichol finished the Kickstarter-crowd-funded portrait marathon! The art has been uploaded here to OpenGameArt. Back in December 201...

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Crowd-Sourced Portraits ETA: February 2012!

New fantasy portraits by Justin Nichol [ more here ] Remember Justin  Nichol 's crowd-sourced  fantasy portrait commission? In  a recent...

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OGA challenge: Mobile, Become WTactics a Character, Illes' Game Music Album

First 'mobile devices' contest  submission  by Mumu The current OpenGameArt challenge is ' mobile devices ' and ends on Mond...

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On OpenGameArt 2 and FreeSound 2

This is old news: OpenGameArt 2 launched and with it an improved interface for browsing and submitting freely licensed game art. Testing, f...

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Flare 0.14 Characters, Quests and HD video

The last version of Flare that Free Gamer took a look at was 0.11. The newest version is 0.14. Character customization in Flare Title and s...

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BlendSwap Hacked

Time to swap... passwords Oh my. Two weeks ago Librivox . Now Blendswap. Read the story here . See their twitter for live updates. Remember...

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LibriVox Hacked

The public domain audibook project LibriVox got hacked (not the first time it seems ). There was no open announcement yet [edit: here's...

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Let pixel maps do the talking

New Pages of Adventure graphics. OpenGameArt is looking for a hosting sponsor. The target is a dedicated server with following min. specs:...

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Libre Graphics Meeting 10-13 May 2011, Blendswap v3, OpenArt

I'm looking forward to the LGM this year . Bart, admin of OpenGameArt will talk about running libre graphics projects . You can view pre...

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CC Fantasy Portrait Marathon Update!

Remember Justin Nichol's CC Portraits Marathon? There's an update [ kickstarter | justin's blog ]! I had an injury earlier in th...

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