The Gluon project is an open framework for creating and distributing games - supporting the flow of the idea all the way from the author to the player of the finished game using 2D graphics. After long months of hard work, the team is now very proud to announce the release and availability of the Gluon software packages.
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Making a game with Ogre 3D
This tutorial series steps you through the process of creating a 3D shoot'em'up game using the popular and powerful Ogre 3D engine. The tutorials compile on both Windows and Linux.
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NAEV 0.4.0 review
Review on the NAEV's project hottest bun right now. NAEV is a 2D top-down perspective free-roaming space game inspired by the game trilogy Escape Velocity. Underlining that its a very promising project, the fourth beta release is already fun to play, as opposed to many other FOSS game projects.
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Free Gamer Interview: Stephen Carlyle-Smith aka Me_Programmer
In the second Free Gamer interview - over 2 years since the first with grumbel - serial Free game developer Steven Carlyle-Smith (UK) aka Me_Programmer Games was kind enough to take the time to reply in detail to my questions about his development activities. Steve has created a plethora of Free games over the years.
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Top 10 Open Source Game Projects To Revive
Charlie lists ten projects that have been on ice for years and that are more than worthy of being revived. The C&C-like "Boson" and original destroyable-terrain "Slickworm" are on that list.
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Why EA games don't run on Linux
There's always numerous suggestions by different members of the Linux community on how to encourage mainstream commerical game developers to make games for the platform. Andrew Flenn asked EA why they ignore Linux as a platform.
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Developing FLOSS games: The only thing better than starting small is starting smaller
m64 talks about an idea for improving open source game development process: creating realistic aims through ultra-episodic game releases.
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