Doomsday Engine for playing classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release
Earlier this month, the Doomsday Engine which runs classic titles like Doom, Heretic and Hexen had a new release out.
Category: Open Source
The KKnD remake using the OpenRA engine has a first release out
KKnD, the classic strategy game is being revived and the new open source project has the first release out.
KeeperRL had a pretty big release recently, adding in some modding support and lots more
KeeperRL is a great little game, one that mixes in roguelike and RPG elements with dungeon building and another release went out recently.
Mindustry, an open source sandbox Tower Defense game that's a little like Factorio
Mindustry is a free and open source Tower Defense game that pulls in elements rather similar to Factorio and it seems like it could be quite good.
Unvanquished, the free and open source shooter has a huge new release now out
After being quiet for some time, the Unvanquished team is back and they have quite a lot to show off in the new release of their free and open source shooter.
EmptyEpsilon, a free and open source spaceship bridge sim
If you like your sci-fi co-op games, EmptyEpsilon might be one to take a look at which is free and open source.
Mesa 18.3.0 for those of you using the open source drivers
For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.
NVIDIA have now made PhysX open source
Popping up a little while ago on Twitter, NVIDIA has announced that they've now put PhysX under an open source license.
A 2018 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Classic free and open source platformer 'SuperTux' has a new alpha release out
SuperTux, a name I've not heard in quite some time, a free and open source platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros is still chugging along and it's heading towards a new release.
First-person dungeon crawler 'Delver' now has an open source engine and editor
Developer Priority Interrupt has officially released the game engine and editor behind their first-person dungeon crawler as open source.
The open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' is looking for testers to try their new online play
SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They're also now asking for testers.
The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is out, impressive stuff
RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.
Open source cross-platform event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' now on itch, progressing well
GDevelop is an open source cross-platform event-driven game engine that's quite promising. It's currently closing in on a new major release and it's also now on itch.io.
Free and open source RTS 'Wyrmsun' has a big update with a new civilization, new buildings and more
Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.
Free and open source racing game 'Yorg' has a new release with a new track, a new camera and more
For those who love their arcade-style racing games Yorg is actually quite amusing. The developers just release Yorg 0.10 and it's quite an improvement.
Space sim 'Helium Rain' has left Early Access, code is open source
Helium Rain, the space simulation and strategy game from Deimos Games has left Early Access as a rather impressive game.
Mojang to open source more of Minecraft with two libraries already on GitHub
I have to admit, I am quite surprised by this. Mojang (owned by Microsoft) are to open source more of Minecraft.
Classic open source strategy game Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries has a new release out
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries holds a special place in my heart, as one of the earliest strategy games I played. It continues to live on now it's open source and a fresh release is out.
VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone
While we've talked a lot about DXVK recently, let's not forget other interesting projects like VK9 (formerly SchaeferGL) which aims to give Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.
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