After having released his professional game art 'for free' for years, Daniel Cook made the usage terms clear once and for all, by selecting an attribution license, published by Creative Commons, for his works.

Now these precious 2D images can be used by open source (game) projects without ever fearing Debian's lawyers asking about DFSG compatability!

Another tip from Free and Open Source gamer extraordinaire SlippJigg encouraged me to try out another action-packed First-person shooter (FPS) game called Warsow last weekend. So what exactly is this game and what makes it interesting?

Kris Occhipinti is currently in the middle of creating a 2D game created using the Blender 3D game engine. The game, called Pissed Off Penguins, looks similar to the popular “Angry Birds” game most of you have likely heard about. I wanted to outline this open-source project and expose some of the unique techniques Kris is using to both fund this project and create the game itself.

TumbleGonk is a complete cute casual game. This campaign is to raise the funds required to release the source code and all related art under an open source license.

This game has become very popular. It is a first person shooter game with elements of real time strategy. Free to download and open source.

Review on the NAEV's project hottest bun right now. NAEV is a 2D top-down perspective free-roaming space game inspired by the game trilogy Escape Velocity. Underlining that its a very promising project, the fourth beta release is already fun to play, as opposed to many other FOSS game projects.

Indie game developer Koonsolo just revealed some surprising sales statistics on the Linux version of their game. 7 months ago they released their game 'Mystic Mine', and in that time the Linux version sold more copies than the version for Windows. Yet they get plenty more website visits from Windows users.

Now, let's scrutinize the 8 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.

Now, let's scrutinize the 8 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.