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Roguelike shoot 'em up Good Robot is now open source


By Liam Squires-Hand
Fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up Good Robot released in 2016 from Pyrodactyl has now had the code opened up under the MIT license.

Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 hits the goal for Linux support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Reviving a classic from the days of the Amiga, Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with 5 days to go. Thankfully, it's hit the stretch-goal to properly support Linux.

An interview with Elden Pixels, creators of Alwa's Legacy and Alwa's Awakening


By Liam Squires-Hand
As part of our ongoing series of speaking to indie game developers, we had a chat with Mikael Forslind of Elden Pixels.

OpenRCT2, the open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a major update


By Liam Squires-Hand
You don't always have to give up classics, thanks to open source. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living on with a fresh update of the re-implementation OpenRCT2.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms manages to break $100K on Fig with Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
What's become quite an ongoing indie success story is Vagrus - The Riven Realms, an incredibly interesting post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid.

Libretro / RetroArch were hacked, wiping some repositories


By Liam Squires-Hand
In an announcement, the Libretro / RetroArch mentioned how the Libretro / RetroArch organization on GitHub was attacked by hackers and they managed to do quite a bit of damage.

A weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently


By Liam Squires-Hand
Another week has dragged on and here we are, the weekend. It's time to go over a few little bits and find out what our readers have been playing this week.

Free and open source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a huge new release out


By Liam Squires-Hand
Veloren is an in-development open-world and open source voxel RPG, it shows a massive amount of promise and a brand new release is out for you to try.

Want more professional Godot Engine tutorials? Check out this new Kickstarter


By Liam Squires-Hand
Interested in game development? Godot Engine is a constantly improving free, open source and high quality game engine and one developer is trying to push out more professional content to help people using it.

Dota 2 - The International 10 close to a record for the Battle Pass, new Collector’s Cache


By Liam Squires-Hand
The International 10, Dota 2's upcoming major tournament is getting close to breaking another record for the prize pool. Plus there's a new Collector's Cache up.

Papercraft tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' is now massively better after recent updates


By Liam Squires-Hand
Wildermyth, a tactical turn-based RPG with a Papercraft styled design that's like a tabletop RPG mixed with XCOM has recently had some pretty huge tech upgrades.

Wine 5.15 is out with XACT work and Direct Input improvements


By Liam Squires-Hand
Another two weeks and another development release of Wine has been let out to breathe, here's the highlights of Wine 5.15 that will eventually become Wine 6.0.

The Vaporum: Lockdown teaser has me wanting more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Vaporum: Lockdown is the upcoming prequel to 2017's Vaporum, a first-person real-time dungeon crawler that impressed with the graphical style and the gameplay.

Rip Them Off is an upcoming blend of tower defense and satirical economic management


By Liam Squires-Hand
Tower defense mixed blended with an economic management puzzle that has a satirical take on capitalism? Can't say I remember any other game that blends such elements together.

Over 8 years in development later, Factorio is properly out now


By Liam Squires-Hand
Originally crowdfunded on IndieGoGo back in 2013, who would have thought this 2D game about building conveyor belts across a big map would be such a big hit? A great many years later, 8+ in total and here we are. Factorio has now left Early Access as a proper full game.

Evolution sim The Sapling expands in September with massive new features


By Liam Squires-Hand
Indie game dev Wessel Stoop has announced their evolution sim, The Sapling, will be getting a first proper major update since entering Early Access in 2019.

Sunset Shapes is a relaxing puzzle game about building shadows


By Liam Squires-Hand
Playing with shadows is something I'm sure we've all done a few times and Sunset Shapes takes that idea, merges it with some almost Tetris-like shapes to have you build a shadow.

Dota Underlords is getting a hero rotation soon and a rank reset


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve have remembered that Dota Underlords exists and needs some attention, with an announcement that it's going to see a hero rotation soon.

Dying Light - Hellraid is out now giving you a little dungeon crawling


By Liam Squires-Hand
Based loosely upon what would have been a standalone game from Techland, Dying Light - Hellraid, a small DLC that swaps Zombies for Skeletons and sends you into a cramped and streamlined dungeon crawler.

You are what you eat in the run and gun game Bite the Bullet


By Liam Squires-Hand
Out now with Linux support is Bite the Bullet from Mega Cat Studios and Graffiti Games, a run and gun action-platformer like the classics but with some gross twists.