Tremfusion is a fork of Tremulous, that wants to be more open in development. There's more to read on its organization and philosophy (too many words for my taste). One of the most noticeable changes is the use of the Xreal as the game engine. Thanks to Julius for letting us know.
An audio interview with Quake2World's lead coder reveales details about improvements in his graphics and physics engine. (I don't like podcasts usually but this one is pretty interesting.)
An audio interview of Lee Vermeulen, founder of the Nexuiz project, was published on the new site Open Gaming Now. The audio unfortunately is of a not-so-good telephone line quality and the added music makes it even a little bit harder to listen. Lee tells about the early history of the project, but other than that it's mainly a introduction to Nexuiz.
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Palomino flight simulator release 20090511 adds shaders to the game.
Boomwar Nitro 0.1b1 has been released [win32 binary] (after 2.5 years of no releases, but some svn activity). It appears to be using the non-free Newton Game Dynamics lib, so I refrained from compiling it.
Last time I mentioned PopCap Framework. Now I found out about PyCap, a python wrapper for the PopCap framework. Thanks to GBGames for passively helping me find this. :)
Slick is a LWJGL-based Java game lib, which even supports SVG (not completely though). Some of these games make use of slick and two of them are supposedly free software. (I haven't searched for the source much though).
There's a first screenshot of Nethack_3D.
Hey, what do Glest, Freeciv, FreeCol, FreedroidRPG, FlightGear, Nexuiz, OpenArena, Sauerbraten, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, Warsow and Yo Frankie have in common? - All of them are being STOLEN by reckless PIRATES. ARR!
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Stolen? They are free software projects and are shared also with other means. Piratebay is not just a pirate hole, its also used by legal file sharing of free films and free software and you are just pointing on legally shared games. :)
Yeah, I was confused by that too. Free software means piracy is impossible, right?
...you people can't see through irony?
yeah... up the irons!
the mysterious concept of sarcasm...
Well, the intended meaning is a little misleading and seemingly out of context. Usually when we talk about FOSS being "stolen", it is someone taking FOSS games, slapping a price tag on, and selling them as if they were their own creations. Which, if you ask me, is a far worse deed than the "software piracy" going on today.
Markus: yeah, that's a really big and actual threat *rolls eyes* ;)
Is win-only the opposite of fail-only?
parasti: aktschuali it's pretty much the same...
I'm a pirate but I promise I didn't steal free software. ^_^
I did however violate it's license in ways I can't mention here. :p
Not sure it's a big threat, Qubodup, but it IS an actual one. There's an asshole selling Secret Maryo Clone, for example, as his own commercial creation.
sslaxx: links plz
It's an old thread on the Secret Maryo website forums. You had posted on it, actually.
lol
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