Free Gamer - Open Source Games

Not too much happening here on our blog, but in light of the recent changes in freenode ownership we decided to host our own IRC server.  You can access the #general channel on irc.freegamedev...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2021/06/new-irc-channel-network.html

Hi and welcome back to another rare post from your favorite open-source games blog :) Oh and yes I am also in quarantine due to Covid-19... stay save and stay at home! So these days I had *some...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2020/04/stuck-at-home-looking-for-some-free-4x.html

Just came across this cool video and project which aims to implement a Mecha game and SDK on the Quake1 engine (Darkplaces specifically): You can find more details on their website and the Gi...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2020/02/looks-like-battlemetal-will-fill-some.html

You might remember end of last year's Game Off game jam sponsored by Github. The winners have been annouced a while ago, and while again quite a few submissions were using closed source game en...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2020/01/dont-miss-sealed-bite-game-off-2019.html

Have you heard of Hedgewars ? What began as a simple attempt to clone Team 17's Worms Armageddon has evolved into one of the most polished and community driven libre game projects on the scen...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/10/watch-out-hedgewars-releases-long.html

Yorg , the Panda3D based arcade racer has been updated to version 0.11 which includes some long awaited features. Most notably split-screen multiplayer: Really cool is also the new controll...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/08/yorg-011-released-now-with-split-screen.html

Top ten FPS that are FOSS Time for another overweening list - the SEO godesses demand it! Tremulous has 1.1 stable, 1.2 dev and 1.3 third party dev versions. It's a mess. Getting bots to ru...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/08/10-best-open-source-fps-games.html

Warfork Gameplay  (livestream - skip ahead 1m20s) LAST UPDATED 2019-08-22 (SEE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE). The title says it all. WarFORK is the revival of Warsow. Warsow is cool (and super har...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/08/warsow-is-now-warfork-and-on-steam.html

Looks like FOSS game development with Godot is a breeze :) > SuperStarfighter >  is a > fast-paced local party game for up to 4 players. Outmaneuver and > shoot your opponents...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/08/superstarfighter-local-multiplayer-game.html

Shoot Your Goo is (despite its name) a family friendly puzzle platformer made in just 48h for the GMTK Game Jam 2019. It could be described as a mix of Angry Birds and mini-golf, but see for you...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/08/shoot-your-goo-fun-puzzle-platformer.html

The amazing libre 3D modeling tool Blender needs no introductions at this point. Suffice to say that what began as a humble Free Software alternative to most heavy-duty proprietary 3D softwa...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/blender-280-released-gets-industry.html

  Top ten RPGs - I made a video of this. People who love text so much they would marry it, will be delighted to see this concise side-product of that video. A list of sorts. With thoughts tha...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/10-best-open-source-rpgs-role-playing.html

For this month’s interview we sat down with Alex Gleason, creator and developer of Vegan on a Desert Island , an upcoming libre action/puzzle RPG. The game follows the story of Rachel, a ve...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/spotlight-alex-gleason-from-vegan-on.html

A new tool named CoreCtrl aims to be the first friendly libre GUI application to customize CPU, GPU and other hardware settings for GNU/Linux. This is exciting news for all gaming enthusiast...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/corectrl-is-libre-hardware-manager.html

Cortex Command is a mess, but in a good way. This bizarrely entertaining strategy blend has been undergoing continuous development since the early 2000s, having had its first main release in ...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/cortex-command-releases-code-under-agpl.html

One of our affiliate websites OpenGameArt (OGA), a free repository for public domain and copyleft licensed art, has just begun hosting this year's Summer Game Jam. To all libre developers lo...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/07/opengameart-summer-game-jam-3-is-down.html

FS-UAE is one of the newest Commodore Amiga emulators on the scene, and perhaps the only true multiplatform emulation project for the system still in development. It has had astounding progre...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/06/amiga-para-siempre-fs-uae-amiga.html

For the first time I heard of Vegan on a Desert Island I assumed it was some kind of bad joke, and frankly this impression lasted with me for a while. However, through some amazing persiste...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/06/vegan-on-desert-island-wants-to-become.html

It has been a while since we last spoke of KeeperRL . The hybrid blend of dungeon building sim with roguelike features seems to be doing rather well, with a growing community and regular pro...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/06/keeping-up-with-keeperrl-alpha-28.html

I've been holding on for too long to report this one, but now it seems to be the right time. Tobu Tobu Girl is a wonderful thing. Developed by the nice folks at Tangram Games (who previously...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/06/tobu-tobu-girl-first-100-libre-game-boy.html

With city builder games climbing back into popularity, it was about time for a serious libre project to tackle the genre once again. After many years of abandoned efforts, it is now the turn ...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/06/lets-keep-eye-out-for-cytopia.html

It's been a long and winding road for mascot racer SuperTuxKart, but after more than ten years of continuous and dedicated progress, the team has finally announced the release of build 1.0, m...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/04/supertuxkart-10-release.html

The hide-and-seek simulator The Dark Mod (TDM) has had a new release as of last week. For those who don't remember, TDM is a Doom 3 mod-gone-standalone that aims to recreate a similar game e...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/02/out-in-shadows-dark-mod-207-released.html

Some of you might remember previous coverage of Solarus, the Free Software Zelda-like ARPG engine that comes with its own complete game creation suite and a pretty impressive palette of Zeld...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2019/02/solarus-16-is-out-progress-on-oceans.html

BosWars Gameplay Bos Wars is still a nice fast-paced and somewhat lightweight RTS for you to enjoy, even though the sound mixing is still brutal but getting your hands on the latest Version ...

https://freegamer.blogspot.com/2018/11/download-bos-wars-27-rts-for-windows.html