From the forums

From Spring-forum:

Post subject: Its time for 0.79
Posted: 31 Mar 2009, 11:41
Yeah, it really is.
So please, stop doing risky stuff and fix bugs instead :)


From Xmoto-forum:

Posted: Mar 25, 2009 12:19 am Post subject:
wheres irc? your nice thank you, ima make another level soon and i would like to irc with you


From Netpanzer-forum:

Re: Group keys don't work
Reply #3 on: May 15, 2008, 08:37:40 AM
I have tested
ALT+1
CTRL+1
CTRL+SHIFT+1
CTRL+ALT+1
SHIFT+1
And nothing work >:(


From Wormux-forum:

03-02-2009 20:41:34
Campagin scenario
that would be awesome!
I already know one mission:
Sniper-Penguin
you have only one player from the Tux team with 200 life points and you have to shoot down many quite stupid NPCs from distance.

Free game news

New game projects on sourceforge:

• Modified Servant MMORPG Engine 2009-05-28
• ScarNastics3D 2009-05-28
• Leges Motus 2009-05-27
• RPG Combat Grid 2009-05-27
• MFS 2009-05-27
• Eric's Java Sprite Engine 2009-05-27
• Soccer Commander 2009-05-27
• tellurian-scene 2009-05-27
• MyTestGame 2009-05-27
• rayGI 2009-05-27
• jDnD 2009-05-26
• Hydrox DPPt Damage Calculator 2009-05-26
• sChess.Net 2009-05-26
• Chrillz0r 2009-05-26
• Breaker1.0 2009-05-26
• OthelloV01 2009-05-26
• Calorie Balance Diet 2009-05-26
• Fretsweb 2009-05-26
• Kharlan Engine 2009-05-26
• STaBME 2009-05-26

Projects before 2009-05-26 were not listed.

This weeks game: Runes of Magic

Runes of Magic is a free freeware RPG-game. Runes of Magic is trying to copy WoW. It has really beatyfull graphics, huge world and many else things. The game is free, but if you want to pay, you can have many cool things. Every player have their own houses and clans can have their own castles. This game takes long to load and install, and after them, it downloads updates for about an hour. You can edit your character and choose from six types: Roque, scout, mage, knight, priest or mage. Each type have their own skills and when your character reaches level 15, you can choose other type. So your character can be scoutmage, priestknight etc. You can craft things and rise your crafting levels.

game name: Runes of Magic

homepage: http://www.runesofmagic.com/

operating system: Windows (xp/vista)

license: freeware

graphics: 10

extensibility: 6

gameplay: 8

multiplayer: 10

singleplayer: -

system requirements: 6

rating: 10

Good:

• hughe world
• graphics
• multiplayer
• skills
• crafting skills
• lots of things to do
• speaking system
• settings
• you manage without any payings

Bad:

• system requirements
• extensibility
• lots of walking
• boring
• payings

Free game news

News from springrts.com:

• Patch 0.79.0.2 released
• Patch 0.79.0.1 and server deployment

News from springinfo.info:

• Spring team is going to make monthly magazine: SPRINGZINE
• Spring 0.79 is out!!!!!

New free game projects on sourceforge:

• Dungeons and dragons and Dustin's tools 2009-05-23
• The Emerald Dream 2009-05-22
• 3D Battle City 2009-05-22
• Psyco Scape 2009-05-22
• Buzz Cast 2009-05-22
• Anex 2009-05-22
• bolztipp 2009-05-22
• FRP Character Builder 2009-05-22
• CHRealm 2009-05-22
• SteamCleaner 2009-05-22
• Mac Snake 2009-05-22
• Ladybug 2009-05-21
• The Defender 2009-05-21
• Forgotten Dream - audio 2009-05-20
• EnhSimJ 2009-05-20
• A Proper Empire 2009-05-20
• Glorious Ordeal 2009-05-20
• EVE Science & Industry Tool 2009-05-20
• Sudoku: Randy's Version 2009-05-20
• GSS 2009-05-20
• Fight it out 2009-05-20
• The Orange Block 2009-05-20
• SiPlus Half-Life Creations 2009-05-20
• ArcemuDatabase 2009-05-20
• SplF 2009-05-20

Projects before 2009-05-20 were not listed. You can find them at sourceforge.net.

Top 10 Linux-games

http://techgage.com/print/top_10_free_linux_games has listed top 10 free Linux-games. List is this:

#1 Battle for Wesnoth
#2 Frozen Bubble
#3 Enemy Territory
#4 Nexuiz
#5 Neverball & Neverputt
#6 Pingus
#7 Cube 2 (Sauerbraten)
#8 Armagetron Advanced
#9 Americas Army
#10 KMahjongg

From the forums

From Netpanzer-forum:

Re:Cheat Servers
Reply #4 on: November 20, 2007, 01:46:16 AM
Thanx Lo,Guess its too late now to fix my player stats, that server was running for nearly 2 days and sent over 90,000 losses with zero kills( i wasnt the only player affected). I was having a really good run this month up to that point.Will be changing my user name (just in case) for next month.
May the frags be with you all........ but not me Mad tanker.


From Xmoto-forum:

Posted: Oct 31, 2008 9:10 am Post subject:
Linden, a developer has already answered, so you don't need to reanswer it.


From Spring-forum:

Post subject: Re: System hangs, Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
Posted: 07 May 2009, 14:41
What has magic sysrequest to do with restarting xserver? Nothing!
CTRL+Alt + Backspace = Restart Xserver = deactivated!
Alt + Print/Sysreq + reisub = magic sysrequest = restart your pc safely (if your kernel is still alive...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key


From Wormux-forum:

10-04-2009 08:26:04
Japanese localization
Yes, we can ;)

Free game news

Sourceforge is updating in 30 days. These changes were done:

• TaskManager will be replaced by TaskFreak!, dotProject and Trac(tickets).
• DocManager will be replaced by MediaWiki and Trac (wiki).
• Discussion Forums will be replaced by phpBB.
• Diary and Notes will be replaced by WordPress.

News from springinfo.info:

• http://springinfo.info/guides/ is here.

No new projects on Sourceforge.

Free games?

When talking about free games, you often think about flash-games. They are free, but there are lots of other types of free games. Often best free games are open source -games. They are good, because hundreds of people are making them and adding things they like in good game. Thousands of people are playing them and looking for errors and things to make better. But there are other types of free games like shareware and freeware. Shareware games are free, but limited. If you want to play whole game, you have to by it. Freeware games are free, but you can't edit them. When playing an open source game, you have to remember, that many people have given their time and skills whitout any pay. They make these games, so you could enjoy and have fun!

Free game news

Spring engines homepage spring.clan-sy.com has changed to springrts.com

New game projects on sourceforge:

• PyBowling 2009-05-13
• Mobile ALter Ego 2009-05-12
• GLQuake32 2009-05-12
• GoCatching 2009-05-12
• Rpg Auto Shift 2009-05-12
• Red Army 2009-05-12
• Galactic Empire 2009-05-12
• NGINE 2009-05-12

This weeks game: Spring

This game is really good example, how good free games can be. Spring is RTS (Real Time Strategy) -engine. It don't look as good as some expensive strategy games, but everything else is better. Spring has great pyrotechnics, hundreds of mods and maps, many players, quite good bots and great multiplayer statistics (singleplayer is quite poor). You can also download widgets and missions. When I discovered this game at the first time, I were amazed! You can play this game with quite poor computer, but if you have good computer, this game can use it perfectly! Dynamic water, realistic clouds and much more.



game name: Spring engine
homepage: http://springrts.com/
operating system: Windows (xp/vista), Linux (many different), Mac OS X
license: open source

graphics: 10
extensibility: 10
gameplay: 9
multiplayer: 9
singleplayer: 5
system requirements: 8
rating: 10

Good:

• graphics
• extensibility
• don't get bored
• open source
• multiplayer
• popular
• many developers
• many mods, maps and other things
• autohosts
• pyrotechnics, wreckages and effects
• much settings

Bad:

• some hosted games don't work
• installing may go wrong
• singleplayer
• bots (can't change difficulty and may not work in some mods)