Monday, June 02, 2008

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-university, one-man game project Heroes of Wesnoth has a new release. There's not much to see yet and it's not the first and certainly not the last HoMM clone but I wish it the best of luck. Whatever it will turn out to be, at least it will have great Battle for Wesnoth art. :)

Last post I told you about Ardentryst. There's a mute gameplay video, I recommend you to take a look at what the game is like as I see some freshness in it.



Bear Factory

A new version of the young platform game Plee The Bear has been released. The code has been cleaned and some images were added. It also features the new level editor called "Bear Factory". The next release has been promised for end of June. I think the level editor will make this project much more interesting, especially for game developers of other platform games.



l-echo, an open source clone of the abstract puzzle game Echochrome, is now 0.1.0 versions old. I haven't given it a try yet. I will. Because it does look very nifty.





tank simulator game

The 1000 USD expensive tank simulator game is stuck at 52.8% of it's financial goal. I think sooner or later some generous comrades will throw their pennies in.



No sign of apricot opening it's repository yet, but in a recent video some features of apricot's blender branch are shown off: object snapping and shadow map baking. These improvements are supposed to ease game/level-design and are likely to find their way into the main blender branch sooner or later. You can get pre-built blender builds of all kinds and colors on GraphicAll.



There's also this YA2DGE LÖVE. What is impressive about it is the homepage's look and it's realistic roadmap. A clean look and decent sense of humor sure are a good way to catch my attention. LÖVE made me find Face Me and Scream. Thanks, LÖVE.



Oh by the way, have you noticed the blog's new look? :) Let us know what you think.





"We already got headless lizards"

PS: (How could I forget?) jClassicalRPG has had it's first birthday! Paul aka Timong delivered a grand speech! (Worth reading!) The project is in "urgent need of 3d Mythic Monsters!!" though!



I also want to thank everyone posting to our game announcements forum! I wasn't expecting to provide news for more than 3-5 games today but then took a second look in said location..



PPS: OpenArena 0.7.7 for hardcore bug fixing is in the house!



PeeEss: Charlie just mentioned that I forgot to serve the news of Glest's new website and new 3.2 alpha 1 patch, which finally features scripted maps aka missions! Yehaw!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

L:ove looks really great! Thanks for mentioning that and I think your blog is one that stands out among many BORING free software-related blogs. :)

Charlie said...

Absolutely great new look, many thanks to Q for filling in whilst I am MIA, and also I^Hyou forgot to mention the latest Glest release and it's updated website.

pzi said...

Nice design! Thanks for including the anniversary news of java classic rpg too! :)

archl said...

Check
http://epsylon.rptd.ch/news.php
please. I found it via MODDB.

Anonymous said...

Heya, thanks for following my progress on Ardentryst. If you'd like to know more about it... It started as a Year 12 Software Major project/major programming hobby project and it's been received well by friends and strangers alike ^_^ There is a new video of gameplay out now, but nothing really new (to the average gamer) is showcased. Stay tuned on the website for leaks on the new world, Snodom :)

Cheers!
Jordan

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