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.