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The really nice looking modern warfare mod for 0 A.D. is steadily improving: Rogue Republic's Russian buildings You can now also check out their blog and facebook page , and to quote one of the main developers : With hope of finding a proficient 0 A.D. coder So please help out these guys, if you know some Javascript and are willing to learn how to code for 0 A.D.!

Hey folks! Just a quick note.  I'm looking to fund work on OpenGameArt.org full time (probably via Kickstarter or similar) once my current work project is done, and I'm interested in hearing what people would like me to work on.  If you have any thoughts, please join the discussion on OGA: http://opengameart.org/content/if-i-could-work-on-oga-full-time-what-would-people-want-me-to-code-or-do ...or on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1d11ir/i_run_opengameartorg_and_im_looking_at_options_to/ Thanks! Bart

WTactics is a beautiful, freely licensed card game which pleasantly surprises for example by having it's amazing assets under free licenses , not shying away from employing  same-sex love  themes and now, by inviting game designers to share an apartment in lovely Sweden on WTactics development during July 2013. People all over the world are hereby welcomed to participate in Summer of Cards 2013 – the first ever real life gathering of the dev. team and all those of you that want to get aboard and contribute to the worlds first truly pro libre customizable card game, our dear WTactics. 1:st to 28:th of July 2013 is when this is going down in Malmö, Sweden, so do some reading in here and scribble us a mail already so we can start planning for wicked goodness. You come and stay as you may. "A couchsurfing style gamejam" was approved as a possible description of the event. Invitation to summer of cards 2013 Your host says hi! Once this returns positive results, I will be...

Both 0 A.D. and Unknown Horizons experience a change in leadership! For 0 A.D., Erik Johansson steps down from project leadership and Michael D. Hafer assumes that role. In Unknown Horizons, Nightraven steps back and Kilian fills the project management role. Leadership in free and open source game projects is an exciting topic with much opinion about which style will lead to a successful game - whatever the subject's definition of "success" is - and too few examples to make objective statements about it. Are you following any specific projects and their leadership structures an want to comment on these? I must admit that I am out of the loop with many, many projects, although I am pretty sure that for example Flare , NAEV and Valyria Tear have (successful)  Benevolent Dictator for Life style leadership. On related note: FIFE (the isometric 2d engine used by Unknown Horizons) moved to GitHub.

Google's Summer of Code , is an annual sponsorship of programmers to improve selected open-source programs (or games :D ). This year, quite a few interesting FOSS game projects got accepted (again) and one being our very own friends of the SuperTuxKart project. Read more about their role as a mentoring organization here . So how about applying as a participant yourself and helping out this great FOSS game? You can also browse other accepted mentoring projects here , if SuperTuxKart isn't your thing. Other notable FOSS game (engine) projects accepted are: Battle for Wesnoth WorldForge (Hosting also Ryzom Core & CEGUI) Crystal Space OGRE3D Blender 3D Nice summer of coding ahead :)

Great news from the people behind the idTech4 powered stealth FPS The Dark Mod : They are making great steps to leave their Doom3 mod legacy behind and a standalone version should not be all that far from now. New The Dark Mod replacement artwork You can follow the progress here on their forums , and maybe you can also give them an helping hand. Interestingly there are two other recently updated Doom3 mods, that could easily fit in as The Dark Mod mods , e.g. going stand alone with The Dark Mod's help. The first one is a Hexen remake, called Hexen: Edge of Chaos : And the other one is a prequel to the Arx: Fatalis ( engine also FOSS , btw.) game, called Arx: End of Sun : Sadly both of them use proprietary themes (and one could even argue that The Dark Mod is borderline infringing on one too), but I am still looking forward to try out these nice community creations once they become stand-alone!

Bushido Blocks is a puzzle game for Android under GPL license,  inspired by block-bashing games such as Bejeweled, Diamond Dash and Tap Blox. Bushido Blocks Screenshots Tap matches of three or more blocks to slice them with your katana. The more blocks you can slice in one go, the more time you gain on the clock. Special blocks eliminate whole rows of blocks but don't give you any extra time, so use them wisely. Links: GitHub project Bushido Blocks on Google Play Music (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Code License : GPL Content License : Unknown