Archive for June 2006

Like a Phoenix!

Friday, June 30, 2006 Add Comment Edit

No, Free Gamer has not met a premature demise! I am merely temporarily really, really busy . Still, there were a few notable releases in th...

Know your market - OPTIMISE!

Thursday, June 22, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Going back to Yoda Soccer , I had earlier talked about performance issues on my 1ghz laptop. Upon reporting the problem , I had this respo...

Oo the Madness

Monday, June 19, 2006 Add Comment Edit

To any regular readers, apologies for the lapse in posting - I did, though, have a valid reason . It tooks 2 weeks to get infected and 2 day...

Open Source Game Engines

Saturday, June 17, 2006 Add Comment Edit

ScummVM FIFE OpenTTD Today is a game engine special on Free Gamer. These are the projects that take your favourite [old school] titles and ...

Sauerbraten and TA Spring

Friday, June 16, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Sauerbraten There is an updated release for Sauerbraten . This innovative open source 3D FPS is an evolution of the popular game Cube . F...

Set Your Games Free

Thursday, June 15, 2006 Add Comment Edit

I'll start by acknowledging I've been mentioning games I've not yet added to the list. I'm redesigning the layout to be tri...

Nexuiz 2.0 Released

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Nexuiz , a rising star of open source gaming, has reached milestone 2.0 . This version brings improved and optimized graphics, weapon balan...

Weekend Scourge

Monday, June 12, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Well a few days without posting is put down to an all-day BBQ and the trappings of such social occasions. After a good rest I can think luc...

Open Source 3D Space Games

Saturday, June 10, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Welcome to a space game special on Free Gamer! No Gravity Vega Strike Oolite Parsec Crimson Space At the heart of open source space game dev...

Updates & More Updates

Thursday, June 08, 2006 Add Comment Edit

I have an ever-growing list of games to add. Soon the existing organisation of the games list will be inadequate so I'll be forced to t...

Karting Race to GPL, VDrift

Thursday, June 08, 2006 Add Comment Edit

I contacted the author of Karting Race with regards to open sourcing the game, and he agreed! There's something to be said for GPL advo...

Stunt Playground Source Released

Wednesday, June 07, 2006 Add Comment Edit

I'll start with the exciting news that the source to Stunt Playground was released at the end of May. This is a really cool looking g...

One Point Nought

Tuesday, June 06, 2006 Add Comment Edit

I added a few more titles to the list: Runescape (online only), FreeCNC (game over), and Karting Race (freeware). Those readers who are G...

Football Focus

Monday, June 05, 2006 Add Comment Edit

There was an update for the only well-developed Free football management simulation I know of, Bygfoot 2 was released. Sadly the lead deve...

Campaign - FreeTrain Localization

Sunday, June 04, 2006 Add Comment Edit

[UPDATE 2009] FreeTrain was translated quite sometime ago, thanks to people who saw this campaign and helped out! It still only runs on Wi...

Introduction to Wing Commander

Friday, June 02, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Thanks to those out there who pointed out the broken Wing Commander Universe link in the exciting prospects section. The link is fixed, now...

Another Large Update

Thursday, June 01, 2006 Add Comment Edit

Well I just did another large update, including adding another 30+ games to the list - even I'm beginning to get surprised at the quanti...

Deadly Soccer in a Warzone

Thursday, June 01, 2006 Add Comment Edit

A rather topical title has just been released, Slam Soccer 2006 (a.k.a. Bolzplatz 2006), a 3D soccer game with cartoon-style players. It ...