Comment: Re:Played it. (Score 1) 188
Meh, Ultima Underworld did not look like crap. It also used sprites.
Comment: Re:That's because there wasn't (Score 1) 266
It wasn't a total flop. You just don't know every decent Doom 3 TC.
For instance, now I'm not expert on Doom 3 mods (because, frankly, I monitor open source games) but I still know about the excellent The Dark Mod - a total conversion Thief-inspired game.
I'm sure there's plenty more.
Comment: Re:I've been waiting since 1998... (Score 1) 159
Note quite Elite 4, but a pretty good fan-made successor is Oolite.
The test versions include support for shaders, bringing more modern looking ships to the game.
Comment: DaggerXL (Score 1) 80
http://daggerxl.wordpress.com/
Well on the way to being a usable replacement engine, built with modern tools, instead of some 10+ year old codebase.
Well on the way to being a usable replacement engine, built with modern tools, instead of some 10+ year old codebase.
Free Gamer's Top 10 Projects To Revive->
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Charlie writes "The great thing about open source is a project can never become extinct — there is always a chance of it being brought back to life either by the original authors who re-find their motivation, by new contributors who see the potential, or a mixture of both.
Here are the top 10 open source game projects, complete with cliches, I'd like to see return to the development scene and back on the road to completion."
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4 good open source Artillery / Worms clones->
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Charlie writes "Free Gamer introduces 4 open source games inspired by... Worms? No. Scorched Earth? Nah. Gorillas? Nope. Tank Wars? No. That's right, their roots go all the way back to a 1980 on the Apple II under the name Artillery. The Artillery genre of open source games is possibly the healthiest genre of open source agmes with 4 very good, polished, playable, and actively developed projects, as well as other similar games, inspired by the classics."
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Open Source City Building, Tycoon Game Reviews->
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FreeGamer writes "People often accuse the Free software and open source game sphere of lacking depth, that there are few good games. In 2009 Free Gamer is dedicated to dispelling this myth. As part of a series of articles on specific genres, highlighting the games that people develop for the love of development in order for us to play, I humbly present a set of reviews of open source city building and tycoon games. I try to be fair and critical, and I note that these games are all enjoyable in their own way. They are all certainly worth a look."
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Flightgear 1.0.0 Released->
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FreeGamer writes "After more than 11 years of development, Flightgear 1.0 has arrived. It was one of the first major Free Software games and has become a flight simulator that rivals it's commercial counterparts. There is an astonishing level of detail to much of the game and yet it can still be played on a modest PC. Flightgear has come of age!"
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Con Kolivas releases last ever -ck patchset->
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FreeGamer writes "Anybody who ever tried ricing their Gentoo in order to attain half-decent audio/visual perforance, or knows much about kernel patchsets, will no doubt be aware of the -ck kernel patchset. It is a patchset for the Linux kernel that is aimed at providing an optimal desktop experience.
Today saw the last ever release of the -ck kernel patchset. Read on for an overview of the reasons why Linux is losing one of it's most talented contributors."
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Today saw the last ever release of the -ck kernel patchset. Read on for an overview of the reasons why Linux is losing one of it's most talented contributors."
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Debunking reasons not to open source game projects->
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FreeGamer writes "There are many significant indie game projects that are committed to creating a quality free game where the developers are afraid of the consequences of making the development public by publishing the project under an open source license. The reasons for declining to open source a project are usually bogus. Over the years I've tried to change the minds of several game project developers, usually met with stubborn resistance. Hopefully this article can help projects earlier on in their development cycle before people have committed themselves to keeping their free game project as a closed source one."
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