Planetary Sanitations Inc, a free and open source world exploration mecha roguelike
A game I completely forgot to cover some time ago is Planetary Sanitations Inc., a free and open source roguelike that has you exploring different worlds.
Category: Open Source
Need a distraction-free art application on Linux? Try out MyPaint
If you have a Wacom-style graphic tablet and you need a simple and distraction-free painting program, MyPaint seems like it could be a really good fit.
RetroArch to have the emulation 'Cores' as DLC when it releases on Steam, plus big updates
The team behind RetroArch, the open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators (and a lot more like open source game engines), have stated their plans for handling the various emulators it works with for the Steam release.
OpenRA for classic Westwood RTS games has a new build in need of testing
Following on from a major release last year, the team working on OpenRA have a new test release up that requires testing.
Godot Engine 3.2 is almost here with a first Release Candidate
Godot Engine, the quickly improving free and open source game engine is getting real close to a major release with the first Release Candidate now up for Godot 3.2.
Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release
Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.
Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming
Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.
Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive
Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.
If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii
Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.
Wine 5.0 has a fifth Release Candidate, getting real close to final now
The 5.0 stable release of Wine is really closing in now, with a fifth Release Candidate being released today with some more bug fixes noted.
If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius
Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.
Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome
When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else so please send help.
Minigalaxy, the free and open source Linux client for GOG has a new release
Progressing quickly, Minigalaxy is becoming quite a nice streamlined Linux client for managing GOG games since GOG themselves don't yet support Galaxy on Linux.
Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project
Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.
UnCiv, a free and open source remake of Civilization V
What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.
Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up
Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.
FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects
GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.
Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements
SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.
Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine
Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.
Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release
Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.
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