2021-06-04 01:35
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2020-04-13 00:44
Hi and welcome back to another rare post from your favorite open-source games blog :) Oh and yes I am also in quarantine due to Covid-19... stay save and stay at home!So these days I had *so… Read More
2020-02-07 00:26
Just came across this cool video and project which aims to implement a Mecha game and SDK on the Quake1 engine (Darkplaces specifically):You can find more details on their website and the Gi… Read More
2020-01-09 22:08
You might remember end of last year's Game Off game jam sponsored by Github. The winners have been annouced a while ago, and while again quite a few submissions were using closed source game… Read More
2019-10-11 16:12
Have you heard of Hedgewars? What began as a simple attempt to clone Team 17's Worms Armageddon as evolved into one of the most polished and community driven libre game projects on the scene… Read More
2019-08-31 14:10
Yorg, the Panda3D based arcade racer has been updated to version 0.11 which includes some long awaited features. Most notably split-screen multiplayer:Really cool is also the new controller… Read More
2019-08-18 16:36
Top ten FPS that are FOSSTime for another overweening list - the SEO godesses demand it!Tremulous has 1.1 stable, 1.2 dev and 1.3 third party dev versions. It's a mess. Getting bots to run… Read More
2019-08-17 12:48
Warfork Gameplay (livestream - skip ahead 1m20s)The title says it all. Warfork is the revival of Warsow. Warsow is cool (and super hard to master) but does not have servers running and… Read More
2019-08-15 18:57
Looks like FOSS game development with Godot is a breeze :)SuperStarfighter is a fast-paced local party game for up to 4 players. Outmaneuver and shoot your opponents in a 2d top-down arena… Read More
2019-08-10 10:23
Shoot Your Goo is (despite its name) a family friendly puzzle platformer made in just 48h for the GMTK Game Jam 2019. It could be described as a mix of Angry Birds and mini-golf, but see for… Read More
2019-08-01 00:33
The amazing libre 3D modeling tool Blender needs no introductions at this point. Suffice to say that what began as a humble Free Software alternative to most heavy-duty proprietary 3D softwa… Read More
2019-07-25 09:00
Top ten RPGs - I made a video of this. People who love text so much they would marry it, will be delighted to see this concise side-product of that video. A list of sorts. With thoughts that… Read More
2019-07-21 14:01
For this month’s interview we sat down with Alex Gleason, creator and developer of Vegan on a Desert Island, an upcoming libre action/puzzle RPG. The game follows the story of Rachel… Read More
2019-07-17 12:45
A new tool named CoreCtrl aims to be the first friendly libre GUI application to customize CPU, GPU and other hardware settings for GNU/Linux. This is exciting news for all gaming enthusiast… Read More
2019-07-14 23:15
Cortex Command is a mess, but in a good way. This bizarrely entertaining strategy blend has been undergoing continuous development since the early 2000s, having had its first main release in… Read More
2019-07-05 07:58
One of our affiliate websites OpenGameArt (OGA), a free repository for public domain and copyleft licensed art, has just begun hosting this year's Summer Game Jam. To all libre developers lo… Read More
2019-06-30 00:22
FS-UAE is one of the newest Commodore Amiga emulators on the scene, and perhaps the only true multiplatform emulation project for the system still in development. It has had astounding progr… Read More
2019-06-26 19:01
For the first time I heard of Vegan on a Desert Island I assumed it was some kind of bad joke, and frankly this impression lasted with me for a while. However, through some amazing persisten… Read More
2019-06-26 15:55
FreeDink is older than some kids that downloaded open source games on their own by now. The two main cornerstones of the game are: low resolution, twisted humor. One really cool thing about… Read More
2019-06-26 11:10
It has been a while since we last spoke of KeeperRL. The hybrid blend of dungeon building sim with roguelike features seems to be doing rather well, with a growing community and regular prog… Read More
2019-06-25 14:05
I've been holding on for too long to report this one, but now it seems to be the right time. Tobu Tobu Girl is a wonderful thing. Developed by the nice folks at Tangram Games (who previously… Read More
2019-06-24 01:07
With city builder games climbing back into popularity, it was about time for a serious libre project to tackle the genre once again. After many years of abandoned efforts, it is now the turn… Read More
2019-04-20 18:53
Yes, if you have followed our development a bit, that might be a bit of a surprise. But we have been asked why we don't call this release 1.0, and the majority of us developers discussed thi… Read More
2019-02-10 01:26
The hide-and-seek simulator The Dark Mod (TDM) has had a new release as of last week. For those who don't remember, TDM is a Doom 3 mod-gone-standalone that aims to recreate a similar game e… Read More
2019-02-06 13:55
Some of you might remember previous coverage of Solarus, the Free Software Zelda-like ARPG engine that comes with its own complete game creation suite and a pretty impressive palette of Zeld… Read More
2018-11-22 19:35
BosWars GameplayBos Wars is still a nice fast-paced and somewhat lightweight RTS for you to enjoy, even though the sound mixing is still brutal but getting your hands on the latest Version f… Read More
2018-11-09 17:00
FreeDink GameplayFreeDink is older than some kids that downloaded open source games on their own by now.The two main cornerstones of the game are: Low resolution, twisted humor.One really co… Read More
2018-11-06 20:35
Space nerds in space is an impressive piece of work most of us will never play. But we get to enjoy watching others do so. And also 28 minutes of looking at the history of the game:Six Years… Read More
2018-10-16 11:00
Wurmsyn is fast-paced, tiny and has HUGE RPG-like scenarios. I don't quite understand how this game's pace is playable without exploiting things like turrets and how to play on a 1080p scree… Read More
2018-10-09 17:42
Godot 3.1 is not yet stable but a demo made for it looks like the engine could actually visually compete with Unity and Unreal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeTHHTDYsoThe demo is availabl… Read More
2018-10-04 13:51
Sintel The Game Alpha 0.2 was released years ago but you might have missed it, just as have I.The three levels have the following features:1. Snow landscape, puzzles, no fights, no ending (I… Read More
2017-03-16 13:10
Ancient Beast 0.3 is here (blog post, forum announcement)! This gorgeously drawn game makes another step towards the vision of its developers.Heya! It’s been too long since the last re… Read More
2017-01-05 22:44
Lugaru HD, aka OSS Lugaru, is now fully freely licensed. November 30th, 2016, the license was changed to state that all Wolfire assets are CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed. Two weeks later, version 1… Read More
2016-12-01 13:59
Hexoshi (forum thread) is a libre game generally inspired by the Metroid series, notably the older versions.It is seeking funding using CrowdSupply for a budget of at least $1100 to achieve… Read More
2016-11-15 11:11
Assorted news from the vast realm of open-source FPS games:Sadly Warsow, despite recentish good news of open asset re-licensing, seems to have come to an end, with the lead engine developer… Read More
2016-10-24 14:37
The Godot Engine ("the open-source answer to Unity3D") continues to make exciting progress with the recent stable release of version 2.1. Besides lots of small usability improvements to the… Read More
2016-09-30 22:41
Gosh that tumbleweed is clogging up the blog!I logged into github today and saw this highly active project in my feed called The Yearning. A hybrid singleplayer / multiplayer game abou… Read More
2016-07-03 03:28
Great news from our friends of the SuperTuxKart project! Read all the details on their latest blog-post here.They also made a nice new trailer showing off a more unusual game-mode: Clearly t… Read More
2016-06-21 15:03
Seem like some people want to revive the old QuakeExpo tradition this year, which is after all the 20th anniversary of Quake1:https://qexpo2016.com/Booth pre-registration started on the 18th… Read More
2016-05-02 13:20
Check out this interesting (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 t… Read More
2016-04-10 17:13
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… Read More
2016-03-17 15:09
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 (wh… Read More
2016-01-18 10:59
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 collabo… Read More
2016-01-05 04:47
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, rever… Read More
2015-12-21 02:23
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.Compare… Read More
2015-12-03 14:00
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.VeraballThe newest a… Read More
2015-12-02 11:21
Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now most of it's artistic content under the Creative Co… Read More
2015-12-01 20:50
The first flipper pinball machine was released 68 years and 1 month ago and yet there is only a handful of open source, cross-platform pinball video games available! Oh well, let's take them… Read More
2015-11-17 15:38
Wymrsun 1.6.0 was recently released (announcement on our forums and on Steam). Wyrmsun is inspired by the original Warcraft games and many reviewers on Steam compare it to Warcraft II. The p… Read More
2015-10-10 22:31
So, as I sometimes peruse various forums, the occasional gem pops up. This is one of the best hidden gems in Open Source gaming.Anticube 2 is a map for Tesseract / Cube 2 that is inspired by… Read More
2015-10-07 02:58
Great news for people who like GGGGames ;)The author of the new action roguelike dungeon crawler kind of darwen mayham game Gorynlich was so kind to inform us his game. It comes with this fu… Read More
2015-10-07 02:58
Great news for people who like GGGGames ;)The author of the new action roguelike dungeon crawler kind of darwen mayham game Gorynlich was so kind to inform us his game. It comes with this fu… Read More
2015-09-21 13:16
Stunt Rally 2.6 has been released, with new features including pacenotes (i.e. corner speed/severity hints) and a rewritten sound system with reverberation (changelog).Stunt Rally is a sandb… Read More
2015-09-09 12:55
A couple of long standing open source game projects have received significant updates.OpenDungeons, an open source dungeon management game, has seen release 0.6 make it out the door. Release… Read More
2015-09-03 14:25
The joys of programming - hours spent scratching one's head whilst trying to figure out why the seemingly correct code does not produce correct results.Hi, Charlie here. I used to post often… Read More
2015-08-31 05:42
For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch (via the autobuilds), the Xonotic developers have released a new version with various smaller changes and new official maps… Read More
2015-08-31 05:42
For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch (via the autobuilds), the Xonotic developers have released a new version with various smaller changes and new official maps… Read More
2015-08-09 23:16
Purely by chance, I found an obviously abandoned but still fun to play mini tower defense with a skippable tutorial level and two playable missions, beautiful graphics and performance settin… Read More
2015-05-13 14:17
Stealth development might not be very "open-sourceish", but it sometimes makes for some nice surprises in our project showcase forum.This time it was the completely new open-source game Limi… Read More
2015-05-07 13:02
We were kindly made aware by the main developer of the 2D RTS Wyrmsun that he is currently looking for support to get this game on the Steam platform (link includes a game-play video).Here i… Read More
2015-04-27 15:35
F-Zero and Wipeout set the standard for the futuristic sci-fi racing games genre and inspire many game developers.Over the years, four projects of that genre were started and developed to a… Read More
2015-04-24 14:20
I had been following this really awesome looking tile based RTS 3D engine project (think Starcraft2 like) on the jMonkey Engine forums for a while, and it is now fully FOSS including the art… Read More
2015-04-03 19:28
Some nice developments on the 2D game-dev front lately, and as you will later see, 2D with full shader, real-time lights and so on can be a quite awsome way to make games, without having to… Read More
2015-04-03 19:28
Some nice developments on the 2D game-dev front lately, and as you will later see, 2D with full shader, real-time lights and so on can be a quite awsome way to make games, without having to… Read More
2015-03-09 01:37
I took a quick look whether one could find some open source games news (new game projects to be specific) by sorting SourceForge game projects by date but no luck, only established projects… Read More
2015-03-09 01:37
I took a quick look whether one could find some open source games news (new game projects to be specific) by sorting SourceForge game projects by date but no luck, only established projects… Read More
2015-01-21 10:25
Many of us know Space Station 13 as "that awesome game I never played". Along with games like Dorf Fortress it stands as one of the pinnacles of the gameplay philosophy of fun through massiv… Read More
2015-01-08 22:19
Galaxy Forces is an open-source moon lander shooter single-/multiplayer game hosted on SourceForge, it is nearly finished.It is unique of its kind in offering global hiscores and achievement… Read More
2014-12-15 17:15
Godot winter iconA game dev jam to create a winter-themed open source game was community-initiated at the Godot forums. The (vote-determined) winner will get a budget of USD 50 to have donat… Read More
2014-12-13 23:56
Just in case you can stand having Steam DRM installed in your system, I recommend taking a look at Strife: Veteran Edition. Strife is a Shooter/RPG based on the Doom Engine and dating back t… Read More
2014-11-27 15:52
Very nice new movie from the Xonotic community:It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some say too popular) "Minstagib" (one shot kills) and the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Quite close outcome this time for the Project of the Month 2014 vote over at linuxgameawards.org. But there has to be a winner:Here is a closer look that which project got how many votes:Con… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
After sorting through almost 400 applications of mentoring projects, Google has announced this year's list of projects students can contribute to.There aren't too many FOSS gaming related pr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This week saw finally saw the official release of version 3.0 of FlightGear.Notable changes:Highlights in this release include integration of the FGCom voice communications client within th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Two interesting projects I recently came across:1. KeeperRL:Description from the author:KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress inspired dungeon simulator built on top of roguelike… Read More
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