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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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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Battle for Wesnoth Architecture

The popular open source game Battle for Wesnoth has been featured in the new free online book The Architecture of Open Source Applications ...

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Assorted strategy game news

Quick Sunday afternoon rundown of recent strategy game updated... 0AD got a new beta 5 release , which improvements in rendering & AI co...

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Non RTS strategy games

An update so quickly? Behold the Free Gamer world is coming to an end. :p So, we mentioned some promising RTS games in the last update. OK, ...

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What planet are you on?

Wesnoth Knight Battle for Wesnoth continues to get stupendously good art contributions such as this series of Loyalist portraits . Hot on t...

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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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Extreme Tux Racer, Smokin Guns, etc

The somewhat stop-start development of the various Tux Racer projects continues, but it looks hopeful that the latest incarnation of the ico...

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Tumbleweed

Well there was some, but let's tidy it up for a bit. These days following Free Software game news is much easier, since we have planet.f...

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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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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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The Best Way To Play

Here's a good tip on how to get extra performance in Linux. It's on the Ubuntu forums but is essentially an X.org trick. Battle fo...

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Medieval / fantasy models required

There's a couple of newish irrlamb gameplay videos . Worth watching if you want to see what the game is like and how devious some of th...

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Strawberries & Cream

I had these grand plans for today, but instead I slept through two alarms and got to work 2 hours late, and forgot what my plans were. *groa...

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It's A Graveyard Out There

Jono Bacon, a Gnome developer, gives an insight into just why Flightgear is so damn cool. The SuperTuxKart team is looking at another rel...

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Oh So Evil

I don't know how this game isn't more well known, but I only just found out about XEvil . This game is a cross between Commander Ke...

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Mars, TCE, Wesnoth, Pong2

Ah, the recent spate of Free game / Free Gamer activity continues. I will be away for the weekend so there will be respite. However, not t...

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