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Dev-corner: How to request art for your FOSS game project (and how not to)

http://freegamer.blogspot.com

During my tenure thus far as the head of OpenGameArt.org, I've run into a lot of different requests for art by various projects. I'd like to start out by saying this: Please, if you need art for your FOSS project, don't hesitate to come ask us! That's why we're here. :)

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Megaglest: Awesome 3D real time strategy game

http://www.idreamoflinux.com

Megaglest is a fork from Glest and and has evolved into a great strategy game. There are seven factions to choose from and the maps are gorgeous.

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Created by Tomi30 10 years 50 weeks ago – Made popular 10 years 50 weeks ago
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Naev 0.5.0 Release

http://blog.naev.org

he Naev devteam is proud to announce the release of Naev 0.5.0! This release is the result of over a year of hard work done by nearly 30 committers. This release is just a step in the path for ultimate greatness and a major step forward in the maturity of Naev. It has many major gameplay changes and signifies the coming of age of Naev, which has now exceeded the tag of Escape Velocity clone.

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Created by mclaud2000 10 years 51 weeks ago – Made popular 10 years 50 weeks ago
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Lutris: A New Universal Gaming Platform for Linux is in Development

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com

Lutris is a new gaming platform for Linux that aims at providing easy game installation, configuration and launching system for games. It is different from other services like PlayOnLinux as it integrates a large number of games from a number of different systems that includes console emulators also.

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Created by Dart 11 years 18 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 18 weeks ago
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Why Indie Games Need GNU+Linux

http://www.tildehash.com

"Windows users started taking games for granted a long time ago. As evidence, the average price Windows users are paying for the recent "Humble Indie Bundle #2" is $6.63." ... "GNU+Linux users seem to have a very different attitude towards games. With this scarcity of games, GNU+Linux users have become desperate."

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Created by JakeDTH 11 years 21 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 21 weeks ago
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winetricks 20101222 released

http://wine-reviews.net

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20101008 today. new verbs icodecs, msnasn1, opensymbol, wmi, xmllite; removed obsolete verbs audioio, dcom98, eadm, urlmon

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Created by twickline 11 years 22 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 22 weeks ago
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Hedgewars - Awesome Open-Source Worms-Like Game for Linux

http://www.tuxarena.com

A few days ago I reviewd WarMUX, a free and open-source Worms-like game for Linux. Today I’ll take a look to Hedgewars, another free Worms clone with funny characters, good playability and support for online multiplayer.

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Created by Chris7mas 11 years 22 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 22 weeks ago
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AssaultCube - Realistic Fast-Paced First-Person Shooter Game

http://www.tuxarena.com

AssaultCube is a first-person shooter game based on the Cube engine with support for online multiplayer and single player games, with a fast-pace gameplay and entertaining gaming modes. The latest version was released on November 14, 2010 and brings several bug fixes and tweaks.

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Created by Chris7mas 11 years 23 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 23 weeks ago
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The Humble Indie Bundle #2 Has Arrived

http://www.phoronix.com

The games in this second Humble Indie Bundle include Braid, Cortex Command, Mechanarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. The game titles aren't too amazing, but they're all natively available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

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Created by mclaud2000 11 years 23 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 23 weeks ago
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Too Many Shoot 'Em Up Games

http://www.tildehash.com

"So we have a few great Free Software gaming engines now, like DarkPlaces used in Nexuiz, Cube 2 used in Sauerbraten, Qfusion used in Warsow, soon id Tech 4 which is used in id Software's Quake 4, Doom 3, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars along with many others, and the HPL1 engine used in Frictional Games' "Penumbra: Overture".

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Created by JakeDTH 11 years 23 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 23 weeks ago
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Gaming on GNU/Linux: Ryzom MMORPG Goes Native!

http://dev.ryzom.com

Winch Gate Properties Ltd has announced the release of the official native GNU/Linux client for the massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playing game, Ryzom. To celebrate the release Ryzom is hosting an in-game contest with a grand prize of a ZaReason Terra-HD Netbook.

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Created by akf 11 years 25 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 25 weeks ago
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Quick Look at 0 A.D. - Free Linux RTS Game

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

0 A.D. is an open-source, 3D real time strategy game based with an ancient warfare theme, developed by Wildfire Games, and using the Pyrogenesis engine. 0 A.D. started originally as a mod concept for Age of Empires II, but in 2009 Wildfire Games licensed the code under the GPL and announced it will be open-source, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

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Created by Chris7mas 11 years 26 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 25 weeks ago
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Games free as in freedom

http://libregamewiki.org

Looking for 3rd party info on free software games? You probably won't find too much on Wikipedia because the games are still deemed unimportant. Don't despair, that's why there is Libregamewiki! Get your game on!

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Created by spanky 11 years 28 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 28 weeks ago
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Wine 1.2.1 Released

http://www.wine-reviews.net

The Wine maintenance release 1.2.1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Whats new in this release:

* Translation updates.
* Various bug fixes.

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Created by twickline 11 years 32 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 32 weeks ago
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Direct3D 10 and 11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux

http://wine-reviews.net

Luca Barbieri made a rather significant commit today that adds a state tracker dubbed "d3d1x", which implements the Direct3D 10/11 COM API in Gallium3D. Luca says this is just the initial version, but its already working and can run a few DirectX 10/11 texturing demos on Linux at the moment.

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