Jan
31

Freegamer Community

I’m con­tem­plat­ing how to make a big spark­ling return to the ehh blog world(?) of Open Source Game Devel­op­ment. Why not a sum­mary of things hap­pen­ing in the community?

Game devel­op­ing with m64

m64 aka the inside man, is writ­ing a very inter­est­ing blog, he talks at large about most things that is inter­est­ing in my opin­ion.  In this post he talks at large about one very inter­est­ing topic “shared worlds”,  and in a way it go along sim­ilar lines that I have pre­vi­ously explored. I have long been think­ing about why the Open Source Gam­ing Scene have not come up with any­thing like Fire­fox and Open Office. And just like m64 writes it’s about pro­jects aim­ing at big com­mer­cial style games that needs loads of assets from 3D mod­els to music. And with that the pain­ful real­iz­a­tion that there are not enough good artists around the FOSS scene.

I also think he have hit the nail on this one too, cre­at­ing a universe/world that many games can use. The trick here is to make pro­ject lead­ers and developers under­stand that you can tweak the shared objects indi­vidu­ally to archive the glor­i­ous ‘unique’-stamp that they all seem to stick too. If you are inter­ested in this please by all mean head over to m64’s blog and read up.

Sind­willer – the space cap­tain or space sim­u­lator man, on how to make a (space-sim) game fun.

Another inter­est­ing blog that recently sur­faced from the FGD-forum is Sind­willers rgame blog, if you want to make a space-sim game that will be fun and not like the other ones already around, I think you bet­ter have to read some of what he have to say about these kind of games. Or bet­ter up head over to the IRC chan­nel #free­gamer at freen­ode and hit him hard.

Timong – Dev turned com­poser, money raiser

Here is a real gem, Pal Zoltan Illes (sounds like a com­poser right?) have released his second jcrpg soundtrack. Which to my ears sounds truly fant­astic in a game like jcrpg. If he man­age to get the dona­tions in he will even drop the nc part in the cre­at­ive com­mons license which will turn this cool soundtrack very free.

Head over and donate or just listen to the fine tunes.

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  • http://tryglaw.eu/m64blog m64

    Thanks for a pos­it­ive review.

    The news about Pal Zoltan Illes are really inter­est­ing. The nc clause and ransom mod­els are not exactly me favour­ite ideas, but ransom­ing the nc clause does have it’s poten­tial. That way nor­mal users and authors of deriv­at­ive works are not encumbered unless those deriv­at­ives turn prof­it­able and then there is a clearly estab­lished way to resolve this prob­lem. Cer­tainly some­thing worth adding to my list of things to pon­der about.

  • Tran­berry

    Hey thanks, and thanks for your blog too. Did not knew this would be read before I even proof-read it.

    For the NC part in Timongs soundtrack, I can only say that at first my reac­tion was the same or sim­ilar to yours, But read­ing his thoughts about it I can say I under­stand it.

  • http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/ ghouls­blade

    ah, nice sum­mary, keep it up =D
    i had missed the details about timongs ransom plan, it’ll be inter­est­ing to see how it turns out.

  • http://iwan.tumblr.com/ qubodup

    Yay for T!

    Man, I always have prob­lems under­stand­ing whether or not Sind­willers posts are new or not. His RSS is kind of dek­cuf up..

  • http://rgames.tuxfamily.org Sind­willer

    @ Q : I dunno what’s wrong with my RSS (I don’t use RSS any­way D: omg, what a sin), maybe due to the fact that I don’t post that often, it behaves… weird :P

    @ Tran­berry : Thanks for men­tion­ing me 8)

  • http://jcrpg.blogspot.com timong

    hay! I’m glad you star­ted blog­gin now! And thanks for men­tion­ing the soundtrack thingy! :D

    timong’s last blog post..8 new jcrpg soundtracks on Jamendo — wait­ing for a $400 of donation

  • mmm

    I won­der about already avail­able music — there’s tons of it on jamendo and other sites. afaik it’s cc-licensed, so any­one could use it for their non-commercial game. So how come nobody does that?

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