CivCool, TremFuture, WineOne, WarzoneFree

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FreeCiv, it's sooo pretty (you knew that already, I know...)

I recently learned to enjoy FreeCiv very much. It's pretty and fun. It also has a (fairly) new release called Mr. 2.1.5.

FreeCol 0.7.4 has been released.

Tremulous 1.2? Visit this page to read how you can help making the next release a reality. By playing!

The latest version of LÖVE is now 0.3.1 and a bugfix is coming soon. I can now say with complete confidence that this yet another project is an awesome one. It has style. Check out their forum community. These guys are cool. As you easily can tell, I'm still blinded by LÖVE's stylishness. Oh. And here is a terrible video of some engine demos!

OpenFracas (0.5) now has music and sound.

After 15 years of development, Wine reached version 1.0. Wine is not a windows emulator.

Remember Mars - Land of No Mercy? I at least twice mourned it's death. It seems that the game likes to revive a lot. Animations seem to be the aim at the moment.

Little video showing off what the engine can do right now

PS!!!: Warzone 2100's music and videos are now licensed under the GPL! I am so excited! Warzone 2100 is a great game that long ago was a proprietary one. The real-time strategy game is much fun, though I felt that long gameplay was dull without music and that the story wasn't very touchable without videos. Joy!!! I also discovered the Warzone 2200 project. It appears to be aiming for improving the game engine.

The Silver Lining Demo

There is a demo of The Silver Lining (formely known as King's Quest IX) available for download!

For those who don't know, King's Quest is a long running series from Sierra. Back in the good old days of 16 colours, this game combined the best possible graphics, fantastic landscapes, puzzles, and great stories. In fact, I don't think I enjoyed many adventure games more than King's Quest V. (Then again I stopped buying games after that.)

There's a good overview of the King's Quest series on everybody's favourite resource. There's a quick overview & screenshots of each of the KQ titles on vintage-sierra.com. There's also freeware VGA remakes of KQ1 and KQ2 availabe from ADG Interactive.

Enough background information... onto the game in question.

The Silver Lining

The Silver Lining is a 3D adventure game with breathtaking scenery and superbly animated characters. It is a fan-made game so it should combine, refine, and outshine the qualities of the original King's Quest titles. The visuals are stunning and if the gameplay is half as good, this will be an unmissable piece of freeware.

There's a trailer on Google Video, as well as a making-of.

The bad news, it's Windows only. And my laptop is too crap to run it.

I did try to talk them into open sourcing the engine a while back, but it fell on deaf ears. That is, "We don't want people to steal or ruin our game!" deaf ears. Ignorance is bliss.

I would be interested to know how well it works with WINE or Cedega.

Mono and Bubble Thing

Well it appears I missed out Onyx from the special on open source 3d space games... or did I? With no pointer to a source repository nor a zip/tar/rar of source, or a freeware download of any mention, I can't classify this game as anything other than todoware at the moment. Contact the Onyx developer(s) if you want to beta test the game.

There has been updates to the 2D open source & free MMORPGs (that was a mouthful) Crossfire and Stendhal. Stendhal looks cute but those kind of games are not my cup of tea.

Mono

Bubble Thing

Something I did find a lot of fun was mono, by Binary Zoo. Sadly it's only available for Windows, although I'd be interested to hear if it worked through WINE. It's fantastic fun and really shows it's possible to innovate even though the graphics and gameplay are so simple.

A great freeware title that runs in Linux, with similar innovative qualities, is Bubble Thing. Inflate the bubbles until they burst and see if you can create bubble-popping chain reactions. You can make the bubbles absolutely massive with controlled inflation.

I know this is supposed to be an open source games blog but those two freeware titles really caught my eye (and attention).

Currently the games list is missing a large number of iD-based open source 'stuff' such as Darkplaces, FreeDoom, the Vavoom Engine, OpenArena, Hexen II: HoT, and others. There's a lot of them. I'm working on adding them to the list in a way that does not swamp the rest of the list in the new 3 column layout. Expect it in a couple of weeks.