You may or may not have noticed - depending on whether you have had your morning coffee or not - that Free Gamer has a new look! Thanks go to Iwan 'qudobup' Gabovitch for a sterling contribution. It gives the site it's own identity and he has come up with a cool fg logo and smart little icons. Anyway I love it, so thanks Iwan. In the spirit of open source he has made his work available as public domain.
Only a short one today as I'm short on time and energy after sorting this out...
Dungeon Craft
There's a new release of JCRPG. Whilst it's still a long way from being a game, it is looking very nice and a few people have started to contribute models. If development pace keeps up of this 3D classic RPG framework I think we can expect some interesting games to the not-too-distant future coming from this project.
Whilst reading the comments on the JCRPG blog, somebody brought up another Dungeon Master inspired game...
is an effort to develop an RPG and editor that mimics SSI's Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures (FRUA). This project began back in 1995 as an effort to learn more about Windows/DirectX programming.
It's Windows only :-( but has been in development for over 12 years and is still active! (That's impressive on it's own!) It looks quite nice. I wonder if there is any future scope to move it towards cross-platform technology like OpenGL?
Also the new FG forums [next in line for a makeover] have somewhat recovered since that rather annoying freeforums.org crash & data loss. Back to half the number of users and 25% of posts in just under a week which is quite good considering the [currently relatively small] size of the community. Do encourage your open source gaming contemporaries to join in - it would be good to have a central place for open source game [development] discussion outside the noise of larger sites that this guy describes, I think accurately, as ironically lonely places. Certainly there are many Free Software game projects that are very difficult to find - just like Dungeon Craft - because of the noise that accompanies a site the size of Sourceforge.
Anyway, back to normal tomorrow... hope you like the new look as much as I do!
image titles ;-)
ReplyDeletePs one of the jcrpg links is broken
ReplyDeletecool new look :)
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Please rename the top image from "banner" to something else. With banner killers and stuff I had to disable those to see it. (;
ReplyDeletelazy_bum: I changed it for you to freegamer.png - is that ok?
ReplyDeleteAlso fixed the jcrpg link (thanks anonymous)
Looking good!
ReplyDeleteGreat work guys :-)
looks better now, good work ;)
ReplyDeletelove the new look. to be honest with you though, the one thing I wish I could see gone is the blogger banner :P but freehosting is really nice :)
ReplyDelete@jake, we could block it, but there are actually people, who like it. Also you *can* block it, via adblockplus if you use firefox or some other tool I don't know of.
ReplyDeleteThe blogger bar is an iframe and can easily be blocked
Thanks for mentioning jcrpg again, and the included screenshot! :-)
ReplyDelete@anon
ReplyDeletethat is true. I would do that except I don't use the same computer for internet on a regular basis. So I am always accessing the site fresh from different computers.
the new font is worse :(
ReplyDelete@anon
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly does suck?
The font is set to sans-serif, which means that your browser should choose a font for you (which you can define by yourself)
Is it the font or is it the size? What browser are you using?
@Charlie
ReplyDeleteYes, it's visible now. Thanks. (:
@qubodup - I'm using firefox. I can't pinpoint what it is, other than that I liked the old one better. I guess it's too large, and possibly another font.
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