Cheat Point Blank wallhack + Brutal New All Weapon 31 December 2011

Cheat Point Blank wallhack + Brutal New All Weapon - Cheat PB December 31, 2011 - Point Blank WH wallhack + crosshair + Newest Weapon Replace 31,12, 2011

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Anttention for Downloader : after you klik link above Please wait 5 second, and klik Skip Ads, you are ill be going to link download. thanks

Fetures Cheat

-Full wallhack
-Chams CT
-Chams Tero
100 000%-wallhack Bening (CT / Tero Visible)
-Wallcolour
-Crosshair
-No Smoke
So Super-RM
-1 Hit All Weapon (contagious to all players) | Already BT yesterday because Updates HS
-No Kick 100%
All user-Kick Players who are playing (Matches At War less)
Suicide-Bombing k400 when throwing
Replace 52-Special
Assult Weapon-ALL (Complete)
-All Weapon SMG (complete)
Snipe-ALL Weapon
All weapon-SG
ALL Weapon-Pistol
-All Weapon Knife (complete)
-Including his bombs and smoke bombs equipped

hotkeys:

Insert: On | Off the menu
->: On Cheat
<-: Off Cheat

tutor:

- Open the launcher Pb
- Open Cheat
- Start Pb
- Auto Inject
- Happy cheating

[-] Replace Weapon

1. Press On the time comes to prepare Medium Game Writing ...<<
2. After changing his weapon directly hit the G <<<<THROW weapons
3. Take Again
4. Shoot the Opponent
5.Off right when exiting the room

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RTS updates (slightly older)

You probably heard about it already, but for the sake of updating this blog and in case you might have missed it over the holiday stress:
0 A.D. got a pretty massive update to version 0.8 "Haxāmaniš"!

0AD 0.8 video

The release news have all the details including the possibility to listen to the very nice soundtrack of the game. Oh and the developers are requesting to mention that they are still looking for contributors!

Otherwise? Well there are some even older news regarding the Megaglest project:
First of all, we didn't mention their new release yet: version 3.6.0.2. It's mostly a bugfix and various smaller improvements release, but they also significantly improved the modding support. In releation to that I guess they also made the .blend sources of much of the content available. Something they are not required by the CC-by-SA btw, so many thanks to those guys!
Other upcoming news for Megaglest are the inclusion into the official Debian repositories and an option to play scenarios in multiplayer mode. No real news on the merger with GAE yet though it seems... a pity really if this isn't progressing...

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Cheat Point Blank wallhack + Brutal All New Weapon

Cheat Point Blank wallhack + Brutal All New Weapon - For you lovers of the game point blank, this is all wallhack + Cheat Brutal New Weapon 30 December 2011.

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Anttention for Downloader : after you klik link above Please wait 5 second, and klik Skip Ads, you are ill be going to link download. thanks

features:

[-] Wallhack Tero
[-] Wallhack CT
[-] Phantom
[-] No Smoke
[-] Fire speed effect:
- Brutal SG
- AWP DragownNow Brust
- All Wepon Fire speed (1x firing two bullets)
- M Speed ​​Ninja auto mode
[-] Aimbot Beta | Cheat headshot

Keys:

WH: On the Insert menu D3D === Off
->: On WH
<-: Off WH
Caplock: On Auto headshot
Shift: Off Auto Headshot Flat
- Not cheat ON | Do Not Use Kekeran | Due ntar black screen
- That Cheat Headshot Flat (SO Gak isa direction up / down)
- Can only right and left
- Each Off die Kan | order not BLACK screen
- Happy chaaiin shott,,,

(Choose a place that many flat (like Redrock, Burning, mstation, library, etc.)

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Cheat Lost Saga - Cheat LS + Hit Damage Damage Hack New 2011

Lost Saga Cheat - Cheat Lost Saga LS December 29th, 2011 - This latest saga cheat Cheat Lost Lost Saga LS December 29, 2011 - Cheat LS + Hit Damage Damage Hack New 2011.

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FEATURES:
1. Drop Bekurang Very Little Damage
2. Hit Damage Reduced Very Little

NOTE:
1. This cheat Battle To become unsafe, Fwar, Ladder
2. Not for the Crusade, Because they will affect their skull
3. Press F1 Koboy Out For When Using Switch cheatnya

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Cheat Lost Saga

Cheat Lost Saga - For those of you lovers of Lost Saga ninja game, this is the latest  Cheat lost Saga. So in playing the game more exciting and easy saga. But playing with a cheat of course is a "cheating" so get used to playing without cheating.

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Lost Saga Features:

[+] No Delay Skill

tutorial:
1.Download and extract cheatnya (run as admin for the win 7/Vista)
2.Buka Aldiandya.exe
3.Buka LS and input the same PW ID
4.Saat out notice (message box) press OK
NProtect splash 5.Saat (cowboy) appears press F1
6.Happy Cheating

Lost Saga Cheat December 28, 2011 - Bronze Token Cheat Hack New LS

Lost Saga Cheat Token Bronze
password

Fiture LS:
[-] Token bronze endless

Hotkey LS:
[-] There is in the file Dowloadnnya


LS Tutorial:
[-] As Usual

Nb:

[-] At a minimum there should be a bronze token "1"
[-] Cheat visible effect if the finished ground floor
   example: 21F> 22F / 41F> 42F
[-] Cheat Bronze Token is not permanent
[-] Bronze Tokens can be used while using the cheat.

Thaks To:
[-] Java IM

 

Source : Cheat Lost Saga Terbaru

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4 hours left to apply: Talk in Brussels about your FOSSGame

When: February 5th, 2012, 09:00 - 17:00
Where: Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth
More info here

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Modern retro-graphics: RetroBlazer

Short call for help: Awesome looking retro-graphics game is looking for a Darkplaces QC programmer.
So far only two screen-shots have been released (and no word on the license of the media):

I am loving the style... so here is the other:

So if you know your way around Quake's QC scripting language try to get into contact with them :) Otherwise you can still follow the progress of this game over at QuakeOne's forums.

Oh and taking about Darkplaces... Xonotic finally implemented client-side networked players in their most recent development release. Meaning that there is now client-side movement prediction and thus less (visually) laggy game-play on slower netspeeds!

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Crowd-Sourced Portraits ETA: February 2012!

New fantasy portraits by Justin Nichol [more here]

Remember Justin Nichol's crowd-sourced fantasy portrait commission?

In a recent announcement the artists reports, that the collection of 35 portraits will be finished by February 2012, as they will be exhibited some day that month somewhere in California, USA.

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Why we need a stronger copyleft for artists, and how this might be accomplished.

Currently, art copylefts are weak with respect to code. If I'm a programmer and I want to write code that's specifically for use in libre software, all I have to do is slap the GPL on it and I'm done. If someone uses my code in their program, they either have to GPL their program or I can force them to stop distributing it.

Artists don't receive the same protection. If I want to make a piece of art (be it an image, model, sound file, etc) for use in libre software, I'm out of luck. As it stands, all the people using my art have to do is share their modifications to my art and they're free to do whatever they want with the code. There aren't currently any acceptable libre licenses that cover a situation in which a program loads a specific art file. (Mind you, as an artist, it doesn't matter to me if someone loads my file in a proprietary editor, the same way it wouldn't matter to me as a coder if someone loaded my GPLed code into a proprietary text editor. More on this later.)

Over the last couple of years, a number of artists who have been frustrated by this particular issue have come to me and asked me what could be done about it. Many of them have asked me to include a noncommercial licensing option on OpenGameArt to address this issue. Unfortunately, NC licenses are incompatible with free software and as such I'm not able to include them on OGA without seriously violating the stated mission of the site. NC licenses do somewhat address this issue (although mostly by accident), but the problem with them is that they're far too broad about how you can use the media in question. A better solution is needed.

So, a few months after OpenGameArt.org was founded, I had a discussion on the debian-legal mailing list about licensing that would expand the copyleft for artists by (in short -- please read the details of my plan before criticizing) forcing the programs that load a specific piece of media to also be licensed with a strong copyleft.

At the time, I was politely shot down. In their defense, at that point I was just a random person off the street with yet another random idea for yet another random license. Two and a half years later, I'm now recognizable by at least two or three members of the FOSS community (making me a small-time contributor instead of just a random dude) and I've had long discussions with people about the specific provisions of what exactly a license like this would require and how it would interact with free software.

Now, the key here is that for something to be free software (or compatible with free software), it can't prohibit "bundling". Bundling in this case is the idea of including multiple separate programs in the same archive. For something to be free software, the license must allow it to coexist peacefully with proprietary software.

In any case, for the purpose of this discussion, I'll refer to this hypothetical media license as the Foo License. Any media released under the Foo License would require that any code that specifically references that piece of media be licensed under a strong copyleft (such as the GPL or the Foo License or others -- we can define these by enumerating them specifically or just listing a set of requirements). If a program does not specifically reference the piece of media covered under the Foo License, then the program would not trigger the share-alike requirement.

To give specific examples of this, if I write a game that loads a certain sprite that's covered by the Foo License, my game code would need to have a strong copyleft. Conversely, if I distribute an image viewer (or editor) along with a bunch of images that are covered by the Foo License, the image viewer would not fall under the sharealike clause because there's nothing in the code that tells it to reference a single, specific Foo Licensed image.

Now, some game engines are clearly generic. If you run that engine on a specific data file or point it at a specific tree, the resulting game could be completely different from one stored in a different data file. The Doom engine is a specific example of this, although there are many, many others. In this case, the engine itself is completely generic, and would fall outside the scope of the Foo License. What is not generic here are the scripts and data files that define the actual game. In these cases, while the engine itself is generic, the script layer is not, because it has to reference specific items in order to load them and tell the game engine what to do with them. A generic engine like this is essentially a VM, and much like the GPL, the Foo License would not cover that the VM that runs the code.

One argument I've seen against this is that it's possible in some cases for people to construct specific, inconvenient examples of how you might skirt the requirements of the license. I can't deny that those situations exist, however the same sorts of situations exist for the GPL, and coding around them is a fairly effective deterrent (not to mention the fact that deliberately circumventing a license puts you on shaky ground anyway). It's been done, but it's not done all that often and it tends to make things inconvenient for both programmers and their customers. In any case, no edge case like this that anyone has brought up before has rendered the license non-free, so even if the Foo License is imperfect, it would still, like the GPL, work in most cases.

So, I'm looking for comments on this, but before you comment, please make sure you've read this carefully. Below is some copypasta that I'll use to answer you if you ask a question that I've already addressed. Please consider these answers before you ask, and if you're guessing that I'm going to respond with one but you believe it doesn't apply, explain why. :)

• [ ] While your example could conceivably get around the intent of the license, it would be inconvenient to implement and doesn't render the license non-free. In any case, the GPL has similar edge cases.
• [ ] The program you mentioned is a generic viewer/editor and is not programmed to reference *specific* media files.
• [ ] In your example, the engine would not be covered because all of the media is referenced in a completely separate script layer, which *would* be covered.
• [ ] In your example, the engine would be covered because it references the media in question by name.
• [ ] I understand your wariness, but the fact that this hasn't been done in the past don't make it not worth considering.
• [ ] Just because there are multiple ways we could decide how to address this issue, doesn't mean that it's ambiguous. It must means we need to talk about which way would be best and settle on a decision (see additional comments).'
• [ ] While it may initially seem that the GPL would cover this case, the FSF has clarified (see "Non-functional Data") that art is data, and the linking requirements in the GPL do not apply in the case of art.  Thus, even if the art itself is GPLed, the FSF doesn't consider it "linking", and the share-alike requirement is not triggered. (Added 12/28)

Okay, bring it on. I love a good controversy. :)

Bart Kelsey
OpenGameArt.org

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Trepidation 2011-12-20

999 ammo in Trepidation

Trepidation is an open source first person shooter based on the IOQuake3 engine. It was originally conceived on April 9, 2006 with the intent to build a free first person shooter with a sci-fi theme. The idea was initially developed by members of the Star Trek Elite Force gaming community.

Yesterday, the first development release since 2007 was released. It's mostly fixes but gameplay is affected. For example the sniper scope is more reactive and missing sounds are now in place.

There are 141 MB downloads for 32bit Linux and Windows. For 64bit Linux and other systems there's svn:
svn co https://trepidation.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/trepidation trepidation


I haven't had the time to figure out whether or not I need Quake 3 or OpenArena for Trepidation to work. Besides the project page there is a blog and a forum.

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Open-Sourcing Canabalt was a Success

Adam Saltsman, developer of the bsd-code, closed-assets, one-button reaction game Canabalt wrote about the effects of Open-Sourcing Your Game While It's Still Popular to their game.

The results of this decision, though not what we expected, have been very positive.

Let's hope the discussion doesn't turn into a hairsplitting war about "free"/"open" and "game"/"engine". :)

By the way, I found this news via reddit.com/r/gamedev in this comment thread. If you're into reddit as well, feel free to submit and cross-post relevant open source game (dev) news on /r/opensourcegames!

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Ludum Dare, Game Jams and Licenses

Olofson's LD22 game

Free, open source licenses are underrepresented at game jams and contests.

This weekend's Ludum Dare ends in a few hours and it already counts 754 entries. The following authors mentioned open source licenses in the context of the compo/jam:

• roschdal plans on "releasing the game as open source on Github"
• Riley Adams's project is already there (GPL3)
• Agon's code is as well ("LICENSE: TODO")
• mcc released LD code as open source before, maybe it'll happen again?
• Olofson's (of Kobo Deluxe fame) failed submission is available (under LGPL)
• Furyhunter submitted a jME game (Not sure but seems to be GPL)
• kragniz's GPL game requires pyglet and pymunk
• lorancou made a HTML/Canvas game called lonekitty (GPL)

lonekitty

Here are some non-submission projects discovered on Ludum Dare:

• dwrensha released a SDL framework (GPL)
• KhaoTom mentioned the Spacescape skybox generator

A *lot* of other submissions use GitHub but have no license info. :(

I found above projects using this advanced Google search. Hopefully, there will be more results in a few hours, which would mean another blog post.

kragniz' in-progress

Here's a quick list of ideas how free licenses could get more attention in such events.

• Organizers could recommend free code and asset licenses
• Developers could offer porting non-cross-platform submissions in exchange for release under free licenses
• Participating developers, who already use free licenses, could advertise these in blog posts and announcements (more)

The Global Game Jam for example requires use of the CC-BY-NC-SA license, which unfortunately is non-free though.

Let us know of any freely licensed game jam/competition entries which we didn't cover!

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Hale Review & Flare 0.15 Video

Hale RPG

A very fine read is this review of the TBS/RPG Hale. Its first comment was written by the sole developer.

Video: Flare 0.15

Flare 0.15 introduces outdoor areas. Translation submissions are welcome now as well. Look for instructions and examples in this post.



Freedroid RPG recently released the second candidate for 0.15. Soon it will be ten years since registration of the freedroid project on SourceFroge.net.



Checking on Scourge 2, another open source RPG title, there has been no development for eight months.

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Whats happening in OpenDungeons?

Hello, I am one of the OpenDungeons (OD) developers and I wrote this blog post for FreeGamer.

I bet you're all very excited about whats been going on lately, and I can assure you that a lot of stuff have been made for OD. We have new music for you to enjoy while annihilating your foes, we've got new concept art for the Human and Undead faction, a new forge and a completely new tile set. We have also begun working on the AI and a XML specification for creature stats.

Music and trailer

Recently timong join the forum and asked about some musical tasks to perform. He started working on a main theme for the game and came up with this :) While he was at it he also made a nice trailer for us which you can find in the about page or watch it below:

New concept art

We have also received some very nice concept art from the OpenGameArt competition for the Undead faction we got art for these creepy characters:

• Necromancer
• Bone Golem

and for the Human faction we got art for these noble folks:

• Wisp
• Halfling
• Cleric
• Maiden

Code updates

Of changes to the code and features we have begun implementing a basic AI and making a XML specification for creature definitions, which should make life a lot easier for artists which want to try out their new model in game and for balancing the stats of each creature.

New tile set and forge

We also have new tile set made by Skorpio (although it is not in the game yet):

You can find more pictures of the new tile set in this forum thread.

Finally we also have a new forge to make devilish traps and impenetrable doors :)

Current tasks, problems and needed help

A new release is planned once a bug that is crashing the game is fixed. We are also looking for more people/help for the project, especially when it comes to coding. You can see more details about the crasher bug and what skills we need from new people here in this blog post.

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Game Naruto Indonesia

Indonesia Game Naruto - Naruto is one of the anime and manga series of the most popular in various parts of the world and including in Indonesia. Naruto Uzumaki is a character in the anime and manga boy is described as blond and blue eyed. On the face there is such a precise section cheek whiskers belonging streaks like the manga character Doraemon Doraemon.

Meanwhile, other than Naruto, Game is also one type of game or entertainment that is currently the most loved in Indonesia. With two phenomena between Naruto with an equally Game has become the most important part of the lives of young people in Indonesia.

Because so much of Naruto Manga enthusiasts with the Game, whether or Computer Games Online games, then of the merger between the two types of entertainment that each has a loyal fan of this will produce a new type of entertainment is certainly much anticipated among connoisseurs as well as Naruto Mango which has also participated actively in the world of gamers.

So far there have appeared many Naruto games that are available to be enjoyed by fans of Naruto Mango lovers as well as games in Indonesia. Naruto Online game can be played directly on the internet, as well as naruto games for computers that can also be downloaded for free on the internet and then installed on the computer to be played.

Especially to this article, it discussed only for Naruto games online, where you are looking for naruto games dedicated online can be played via the internet services directly without the need to install it on your computer.

Here are some links you can visit the site to get naruto games, and to find out more about how to play this game naruto games you can visit the site prior to reading the alloys in www.naruto-arena.com/the-basics

1. http://topsolusi.com/narutomugen

Available on our site some games naruto free fight with the type of game. Characters that you can play in this game consists of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke and Sakura Uchiba. This game takes place in konoha naruto precisely in the Land of Fire. This naruto game here, Kyuubi wants to destroy the village, Naruto and his friends must use all the skills to mengehentikannya.

2. http://www.kapanlagi.com/game/naruto_games.html

Kapanlagi site above also provide a wide range of naruto games can be played free of charge and with the appearance of a very light flash.

Meanwhile, if you want to download free naruto games, so many Internet sites that provide them. For more details about the downloadable games, you can also read through the article more complete free games that have ever been written before in this blog.

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Minimal puzzles: Search for Smodrick 1.3.1 and Black Obelisk

Search for Smodrick 1.3.1, a simple ncurses-based game, was recently uploaded to SourceForge.

Nearly dead in Search for Smodrick 1.3.1

The gameplay consists of finding an optimal path to get to the next level and avoiding/deflecting enemy androids. Game turns appear to be mixed-real/turn-based

No monsters yet in this match of Black Obelisk 0.2

I was reminded of the JavaScript game Black Obelisk by Starinfidel, in which your task is to destroy hidden obelisks while avoiding or luring deadly monsters. Hint: input is via mouse and you start playing by pressing black tiles next to non-black tiles.

Both games are single-player puzzles with minimal visuals.

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Aleph One 1.0 released

Hard to believe, but after 12 years of community development, the guys from the open-source engine based on Bungie's Marathon trilogy Aleph One have finally released a version called 1.0!

If you are lazy, you can watch this first part of a long set of "let's play" videos to get run through this FPS classic:

Let's play Aleph One (Part 1)

But honestly? This thing even runs on your cell phone (unless you have a talking brick like me :p ), so no reason not to play it yourself.
Edit: *hust* that was shoddy investigative journalism by me again :( In fact Aleph One does not seem to run on cell phones yet.

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Long time no update from...

...FreeGamer? No not this time :p It's rather that the Spring RTS engine ran into some trouble with their long overdue 0.83 version and now decided to release 0.84 instead ;)

Along with it comes also a new Zero-K release (0.9), which prompted one of their players to make a nice new trailer in anticipation:

Zero-K fan trailer

So...that's it for today ;)

P.S.: Check out Zero-K's Planetwars metagame too.

P.P.S.: Also Spring related... someone on their boards is looking for people to take over the development of another quite nice RTS game: Conflict Terra.

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OGA challenge: Mobile, Become WTactics a Character, Illes' Game Music Album

First 'mobile devices' contest submission by Mumu

The current OpenGameArt challenge is 'mobile devices' and ends on Monday, December 5, 2011. The contest before that was low on participants and a survey was started to figure out how to get more people involved.

Becoming a WTactics character

Taken from OGA: WTactics is currently offering a chance to have your likeness on a WTactics card in order to raise funds for the continued development of thier project.  From their website:

Give our artists a picture of you or your beloved one and become a part of the game! The artist will create a nice portrait with your chosen class, clothing and equipment, making it an everlasting part of our game and the open source communities, turning it into an immortal memory.

This reminds me of the Fantasy Portrait Kickstarter project, which produced some pretty portraits but unfortunately still istn't finished yet.

pzi's album cover

Pal Zoltan Illes of jClassicRPG fame released the game music album A Mantle Of Games under CC-BY-SA. Feel free to use and leave a comment here.

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Open Source RPG News, Freedroid and IrrRPG builder

The wayward Goat strikes again!


Freedroid 0.15 rc 1:

The plucky, 'puter punching penguin hack 'n slash RPG stalwart has had a new release recently, reaching the 0.15 rc milestone (how many years will it take them to get to 1.0, I wonder?)

It adds lots of things, new quests, new guns, new abilities, UI fixes, editor tweaks... Lots of development happening there, so check it out!

EDIT: Thanks to shirish for pointing out that it's still at rc 1 stage, and thus not a final release.


IrrRPG Builder Alpha 2

A project that looked promising, and that I almost forgot about, is the RPG game IDE, IrrRPG Builder. Finally, a basic battle system is implemented, and the scripting system was improved as well, so it's getting pretty close to being feature complete.

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BREAKING NEWS: Doom3 source code released!

Ha, you probably read it here first, since it is just an hour ago that it was uploaded!

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

Have fun tinkering with it!

P.S.: A good dev forum for it is Doom3world.

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Fan made trailer contests and other FPS news

So it seems Red Eclipse is having a "contest" for creating an official trailer for their upcoming 1.2 release. Nothing to win (except fame), but the guys from Sauerbraten (also Cube2 engine based, like Red Eclipse) recently did the same with a quite nice result:

 

New official Sauerbraten trailer

So if you want to participate, have a look at their rules and check out these nice open-source tools for video capturing:  GLC (short tutorial by our qudobup) and editing: PiTiVi or KDEnlive (sorry for being Linux centric here :p ).

In other news I can report that the Xonotic team is following up on their promise to report more news and developments on their Blog :) Check out the latest entry for a log read and many nice pictures.
Personally I am currently most excited about the mod "Overkill" with tries to take some features of the well loved instagib mode (sadly so much that it is sometimes hard to find anything but instagib games :( ) like right click laser jump etc. while keeping a variety of weapons that are a bit more appealing to non-instagib players.
Well, check out the more detailed description and pictures at the bottom of the post linked above! Oh and you can already play the mod by joining the test server with a vanilla Xonotic version (all needed files will be auto-downloaded).

P.S.: Here is a small video to show how it currently looks:

Xonotic Overkill mod (early WIP)

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Nusantara Online transformed into Digital Encyclopedia

Nusantara Online which is known as online games, was also made ​​in the version of the encyclopedia. No different than the version of the game, in which the user is also presented about the history of the kingdom in Indonesia.

Encyclopedias written in a form of interactive flash-based. The interface looks simple, accompanied by gamelan music era of the past.

For example, the history menu. In it contains a number of figures who played an important role in the heyday of Majapahit, Gajah Mada call it, Gayam Wuruk, Raden Wijaya and 9 other figures.

Then there was another menu and the environment, this is arguably the most interesting part of the entire contents of the encyclopedia.

In it there are socioeconomic, whose contents tell the economic conditions in those days, complete with currency and market conditions. Plus the environmental side that describes what kind of town planning, sanitation, and the architecture of that period.

Encyclopedia of the Telegraph and Telkom in cooperation is planned to be marketed to some book shops with price range of $ 10 thousand. Unfortunately, not yet certain when this product can be purchased.

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jMonkeyEngine Official Beta Contest Announced

We're a week into what has been an absolutely thrilling experience so far. What was more of an experiment to see what some developers might pull off with the new Beta release has far exceeded our expectations.

Prizes include a free copy of the upcoming "jMonkeyEngine 3 Beginner's Guide" and a free theme from the WooThemes shop. Additional prizes might be added.

If you want to get caught up you should read the following articles:
Brief Announcement
Exhaustive Contest Rules
Contest Prizes

Even if you've never used jMonkeyEngine before, 1 and 1/2 months could be enough time to put a game together if you have some experience in Java programming and game development already. We highly encourage developers to download the jMonkeyEngine 3 SDK as the recommended route to a quick start. From there the wiki and community forum are mere clicks away.

We hope this contest will bring some new blood into our lively community, and we trust you'll find it worth your while.

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Unknown Horizons 2011.3 Changes and Videolog

Unknown Horizons 2011.3 is out! Features are:

• Complete settlement AI (details here)
• Combat and diplomacy system
• Increase in performance (partially thanks to FIFE)
• Support for internationalized voices (right now available: de, en, fr)
• Nine new buildings, one new ship (here are some)
• New statistic widgets
• Usability and interface improvements (for example the in-game menu)
• New maps and a parameters-based map generator

The original announcement is here and some more details about the new features here.

[video: Unknown Horizons 2011.3 Changes (voiced)]

Development is active and they are on the lookout for people to help out or even join:

• 2D/3D/Animation artists can find some tasks here
• Naval public domain painting lovers can help by finding some background art
• Interested in mechanics/story? Share your ideas for catastrophes!
• Interesting screenshots and videos should be posted here
• Feedback is needed for this release. It can be shared on the forums or IRC room.

Translators, sound artists, programmers, game designers, writers and voice artists can also help. The get involved  page will let you know how to get started.

Pioneer and settler buildings



Shooting pirates



Translucent environment

[More screenshots]

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New websites, releases and competitions etc

Couldn't really think of a fitting headline, but here is the bunch of randomly collected news from the FOSS gaming realm:

First of all, OpenDungeons finally got a nice website and a blog (as mentioned previously). And in collaboration with OpenGameArt, the kicked off their art competitions again.

SummoningWars also got a new website recently, and they have also released version 0.55 a few days ago.

New Summoning Wars GUI

Last but not least, the pledgie donation drive for 0 A.D. seemed to have payed off to some extend, so one of the main developers is now working full time on the game for one month. See here for his first report on things newly implemented (most notable a save-game feature). But... you can still donate to keep him motivated longer ;)

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Settlers of Catan Rules in Open Source Games (aka Clones, Remakes, Implementations)

Settlers of Catan is a popular board game. In today's terms it can be described as very 'social' thanks to its trade mechanic, which can lead to exploitation, corruption, deception... all that fun stuff.

There are a few open source implementations of the game rules, some of which I mentioned years ago and with two of them being updated recently, I decided to revisit them.

First, a few fun facts in comparable table form, further below you'll find screenshots, impressions and feature lists. Enjoy! If you're looking for somebody to play against, why not try the #freegamer IRC channel? :)

Thanks for hiponboy's (of SumWars fame) help at testing games and collecting data!

	Game	Platform	Activity	© Infringement	™ Infringement	Compilable?

	Pioneers (pio)	C, GTK+	active	Hex-tiles look suspicious	None found	Yes (./configure && make)
	Java Settlers of Catan (jsettlers2)	Java	active	Yes ("Gorillaz" character portrait file in resources)	Yes ("Settlers of Catan")	Yes (ant)
	Cities3D	C/C++, openGL	6 months ago	None found	None found	No (./configure error)
	Solitaire Settlers of Catan (solitairecatan)	Java	3 years ago	Yes (original Catan card images)	Yes ("Settlers of Catan")	No (ant error)
	jCatano	Java	5 years ago	None found	Possibly ("Catan")	Yes (ant)
	GL Catan	C/C++, openGL	5 years ago	Yes (original Catan card images)	Possibly ("Catan")	No (source not found)
	Java Settlers of Catan (javasettlers)	Java	6 years ago	None found	Yes ("Settlers of Catan")	No (instructions missing)
	Nettlers of Catan (nettlers)	C/C++	7 years ago	None found	Possibly ("_ettlers of Catan")	No (not ported to Linux)

In the table I pointed out copyright and trademark infringement, which according to this article created problems for SoC clones in the past.

I encourage project maintainers to check whether all assets are openly licensed, credited and legal and distance themselves from the Settlers of Catan trademark to avoid confusion.

Pioneers

Pioneers is feature-loaded and is configurable in content (maps), look (theme) and gameplay (rules).

Features: Various boards, Seafarers mode available, network multiplayer or single-player, one AI level, map editor, complex trade (not sure if it's possible to trade multiple vs multiple resources though), few custom rules, themes


Java Settlers of Catan (JSettlers2)

JSettlers2 nice to play with complex trade, although offers can be confusing and widgets can't be resized individually.

Another drawback is the apparently forced slowness of the AI. On the other hand the AI sometimes offers trade, which makes it stand out from the trade-passive AI of the other games.

Features: Board for 4/6 players, network multiplayer or single-player, one AI level, complex trade, few custom rules

My suggestion for a hopefully non-infringing name change: "Builders of Javatan"

By the way, I was inspired to create a little tile set for JSettlers2.


Cities3D

Cities3D looks great and feels great but needs a developer/maintainer.

Unfortunately FMOD is used for sound, which renders the game non-free.

Features: Various boards, Seafarers mode available, network multiplayer only, complex trade, polished UI, sounds


Solitaire Settlers of Catan

Solitaire Settlers of Catan has a nice look and a clear trade interface (although unfortunately only simple trade is possible).

Features: Board for 4/6 players, single-player only, different AI levels, simple trade, additional Volcano scenario

jCatano

jCatano has a non-intuitive interface and is a bit of a pain to play with for example no resource icons and impossible action buttons not being grayed out.

Features: Board for 4 players only, network multiplayer only, no harbors, no trade between players, unpolished UI

GL Catan

As long as source code is missing, GL Catan can be considered proprietary software.

Features: Custom board size, single-player only, different AI levels, savegames, map editor, no trade with AI, points to win can be set


Java Settlers of Catan (javasettlers)

Javasettlers is not playable.

Features: Javasettlers is a techdemo of board rendering and building placement.


Nettlers of Catan (nettlers)

Nettlers' advantage is its shortcut-driven interface and minimal UI.

Features: Custom board size, Seafarers mode only, multi-player only, complex trade, shortcut-driven interface

Note about features: "complex trade" means that "I will trade 2 wool and 1 wood against 1 iron" is possible with other players, "simple trade" means only "1 resource for 1" resource trade is possible.

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