Thursday, August 23, 2007

Freeciv 2.1beta6 Now Out!

A new beta of the upcoming Freeciv 2.1 has been released. The last major beta - beta4 - was nearly 5 months ago. There was a beta5 (uploaded a few days ago) but it was not announced due to some serious bugs. Anyway, beta6 is now available from the Freeciv FTP server. Whilst it is currently only up there as a tarball, a Windows and Mac binaries won't be far behind and I'm sure packages for the Linux distribution of your choice will pop up in the relevant places e.g. getdeb for Ubuntu.



The main changes since beta4 are numerous bug and stability fixes. Freeciv 2.1beta4 was a bit prone to crashing unexpectedly - beta6 should be in much better shape. There isn't yet a NEWS page up for beta6 but since beta6 is just beta5 with a few critical fixes, the beta5 NEWS page gives you a good idea of what changed since beta4.



Anyway I'll compile it a bit later if a .deb hasn't appeared by then. I think Freeciv 2.1 is going to be one of the best open source games to point people to - nice graphics, established codebase, well balanced gameplay. So if I don't post tomorrow, you know why. ;-)



I also stumbled upon the Free Sound Project yesterday. It's a collection of creative commons licensed sounds - but sounds only, no music, which is what sets it apart from other sites which tend to be overwhelmed with music. I also came across Gimp Users, a site with some excellent and up-to-date Gimp tutorials. More links like those, to help budding game makers, can be found in our Game Media Creation section of the www.freegamedev.net forums - so join in there where a good Free Software game community is burgeoning.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

ot: how about enabling full content rss feed? some argumentation: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/12/do-you-publish-full-text-feeds-or.html . it is a bit unneeded now as you do regular updates and one have to browse to your blog anyway to read article - often longer and containing informations not mentioned in "short" feed.

Unknown said...

I agree with anonymous here!

We, the readers want full rss feed!

Anonymous said...

FreeCiv's homepage hasn't been updated yet... I want that binary soooo badly xO

Anonymous said...

Windows binaries are up now!

Anonymous said...

we want a deb, now! xD lol
8D

Jer Clarke said...

+1 for open access to full feed contents in RSS. (offer of custom wordpress hosting and free domain donation for the blog still open :)

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