Regular readers will know by now how much I've enjoyed using Lutris to bring together my game library across Steam, GOG and more. It just recently put out the big update!
On top of AuroraRL shutting down this month, Coregrounds a competitive strategy game that pulled in elements from both Tower Defense and MOBAs has also shut down. This one has also opened up the code.
The difficulties of game development and Early Access have hit another developer, with Sun Dogs throwing in the towel with AuroraRL. It's not all bad news though.
No need to wait for Godot, the third beta of Godot Engine 3.1 is officially out for you to break it apart and report issues.
For those wanting to check out another open source game or perhaps see how they're made, Dead Ascend might be a fun choice for a little adventure.
At the start of this year, I gave a little mention to vkQuake2, a project which has updated the classic Quake 2 with various improvements including Vulkan support.
If you have one of the more recent NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, here's an interesting project for you to try. Q2VKPT from developer Christoph Schied implements some really quite advanced techniques.
I have some pretty fond memories of playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory online with friends many years ago, so to see it still alive and kicking with ET: Legacy is awesome.
While the big Godot Engine 3.1 release isn't out yet (soon), they're already working out a list of exciting features for the next few versions.
SuperTuxKart, the free and open source racing game has hit the beta stage with the 0.10 release that's now available.
OpenRA, the incredible free and open source recreation of classic Command & Conquer real time strategy games has a new test build out.
Keeping tabs on various open source projects, one I'm quite keen to see progress further is the KKnD and KKnD2 remake. They just recently pushed out a new build to improve it further.
Lutris, the excellent all-in-one game manager solution is really starting to show off now. The latest beta has some nice improvements to tidy it all up.
Announced today, Godot Engine 3.1 alpha 5 is now officially available and the last alpha before they really lock it down to focus on critical issues.
Wyrmsun, the classic free and open source RTS had an update recently which amongst other things added in seasons to show the passing of time in game.
Here’s one that we missed in the holiday scramble. Following an alpha release, the penguin-themed platformer has its first big update in two years.
While Alpha 23 of the free and open source RTS 0 A.D. was released way back in May of 2018, it did come with some issues and they've put out an updated version now to improve it.
The team behind the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 put out their November progress report at the end of last month, showing some impressive work once again.
It appears we missed this one from December last year, vkQuake2 is Quake 2 amplified with Vulkan support.
Just before the end of 2018, the open source classic RTS Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries had a fresh release out.
