Hi there, I'm new here but let's get straight to the point.
sfxr
While browsing through the Ludum Dare contest's blog, I found a nifty little tool which generates 8-bitish sfx, without me having to know anything about sound synthesis. It's called sfxr and was made by Tomas Pettersson. License unknown. You can download it for win32 and *nix (run 'make') systems.
The other awesome thing is the first FreeGameDev.net modelling contest. The mission is to create rts industrial-style buildings under free licenses. The competition ends when February begins. Ironically, I tripped over a similar contest in a forum, where I told about the FGD contest.
Hex-a-hop
Yesterday I realized, that Charlie never mentioned (oh snap he did, under the name Hex-a-pop) the totally awesome puzzle game Hex-a-hop. It's homepage is dead, but the game survived at Debian. I also was able to retrieve a half-broken archive (linux source/build) using the Wayback machine. Try the game or at least give it to your kids!
Charlie once mentioned AstroMenace, but did he tell that Viewizard released it's source and media under the GPL v3? It works like a charm, copying some files, 'cmake .', 'make', './AstroMenace' and I see a game menu with spaceships flying in it's background on my display.
OpenAstroMenace
The game looks sharp and the gameplay is impressive for an top-down (or down-top?) arcade. I also have to mention that my subwoofer likes the explosions' sounds. My neighbours noticed it too.
I sure hope that some arcade freaks will soon take the game and improve it (Menu gui is a bit confusing, levels could contain a bit more diversity, enemies could drop temporary upgrades.) But for now: go get it!
6 comments:
good post qubodup =)
Good post Q!
I had mentioned Hex-a-hop here but it was quite some time ago and it's a great little game. Repeat mentions are *not* a bad thing. :-)
thank you two.
Hex-a-pop ^^
Hex-a-hop is nice, but the code must be ugly. I got _tons_ of warnings on my Gentoo box and the game failed to compile/run (don't remeber). Also, as far as I remember, it puts savegames where the binary is, and this place is often unwritable for normal user.
And yeah, I would like to see it running fine, the game is great (I had binary working or something ;)
Pfew, got it to work on Gentoo with some Ubuntu/Debian patches. ebuild is in roslin overlay, for those who want it.
If anyone is interested in improving this with more Debian patches (ie. locale support) feel free to do it. (:
The source code for official debian packages is always easily available through:
apt-get source hex-a-hop
You can also download it here:
http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/hex-a-hop
Nice to see somebody else than Charlie post news. I hope this increases the news frequency. :)
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