tools
Blender 2.80 released, gets industry sponsorship
The amazing libre 3D modeling tool Blender needs no introductions at this point. Suffice to say that what began as a humble Free Software alternativ…
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sintelthegame
Sintel The Game has 3 playable Levels (Alpha 2)
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 …
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pinball
Top 3 Open Source Pinball Games
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…
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blender
Blender Game Making Challenge starts on the 20th of this month
While not necessary only for FOSS games, all will be done with the Blender3D included game engine (BGE). Check out their website here and/watch the …
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devcorner
DevCorner: Liberate some great Blender game art!
UPDATE: First set of files has been released (license CC0) and on my advise he added some stretch goals: 600$ > 3 game ready Enemies! (models, sf…
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worldforge
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, quite a few…
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platform-windows
DevCorner: Blender Game Engine
While Blender3D is one of the premier FOSS projects out there, its integral part the Blender Game Engine (BGE) is often belittled as not a serious …
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supertuxkart
OpenGOO and Using Inkscape or Blender for Editing Maps/Levels
Building bridges in OpenGOO video: New Physics in OpenGOO You may remember that in the first Humble Indie Bundle , World of Goo was not open-sourced…
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worldforge
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 Google…
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blender
Blender Game Engine Air race
We recently featured another air race kind of game , but this on has much more eye-candy: BGE_Airrace ocean demo And believe it or not, but it is mad…
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maratis
Maratis - Simple 3D Game Editor
Maratis' editor Maratis is a simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers. Tested on Windows, Mac and iPhone. [ f…
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supertuxkart
Ripping off Open-Source-Engine Games: Lugaru
Lugaru is a proprietary game. The Lugaru source code was released under GPL . The Lugaru game data was released under a "freely redistributed fo…
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xenowar
A little bit of everything
Long time no see! Before you look at the pictures: I can only recommend following the FGD Game Planet and Dev Planet . That is all ;). Games CONS CO…
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xreal
Weaver: Magic FPS, OpenArena 0.8.5, Evidyon, Code Summers and web findings
Weaver Weaver [ introduction ] is an objective-based ("invade checkpoints") team fps with a simple gesture sequence spell casting system . …
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tutorial
Blender Game Competition 2010
Dear diary...ermm readers *hust*... this is my first post on this blog so please be gentle with me! I am sort of helping out now and then since qudob…
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vaporware
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 product …
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yofrankie
Eying Eisenstern And Eye Candy
I had a few links collecting that I wanted to get off my chest. Nothing is worse than having a folder full of old links that would have been interes…
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tiled
Apricot's aim, Battle Tanks and FreeCol map editing
Frank and mushroom from Apricot There was a change of focus in the Apricot project: From create full functional industry quality game prototype to …
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wesnoth
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-for-univers…
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freeciv
New Freeciv Beta
Freeciv 2.1 beta3 is ready ( changelog summary ). I'm on holiday in Vietnam at the moment so won't be able to play it for a few weeks., but…
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