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Game Online and Blogging Online

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:03:00 +0000

Nowadays, every kid in the world should be familiar with online game. Many kind of online game providers provide the kids with games that can be only played on line or through internet connection. There so many genres of online game and one of the genres are the duel or fight or action genre. This genre includes the fight between man and man or the action a man versus many men. One example of the online game that include in this genres is Boxhead 2. This game is very famous among the action game lovers. So many kids and adult play it in their house, in office, in school, etc.

Another genre that also very interesting and has playing by so many people is RTS (Real Time Strategy). In this genre you will ask to build your army first and then try to defeat your enemy army and then conquer their territorial. Age of War is one the most played online game in RTS genre. This game will make you as a commander of an army that can conquer the world in that game.

Besides playing the two online games mentioned above, you can also make money by online in the internet. One of the ways to make money is by doing Blogging. Many internet users called Blogging for money. With blogging seriously when you online, you can make your own money just from the internet whenever and wherever you want to. So, if you interested in making money on line you can do it while playing online game. Best in using your time, make the best way to earn your money.

Cake Mania: Lights, Camera, Action!

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:39:00 +0000

Return to Jill Evans’ hometown of Bakersfield in Cake Mania: Lights, Camera, Action, a fun and exciting Time Management game! Now an attractive and quaint tourist destination bustling with new stores, Bakersfield has caught the eye of Hollywood producers scouting locations to film their next big action blockbuster. As production gets underway, Bakersfield is overrun with all-new eccentric personalities determined to mix and mingle with the locals.

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/399558677/CakeManiaLightsCameraAction.rar
OR
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2a66hb/n/CakeManiaLightsCameraAction.rar
OR
http://hotfile.com/dl/48690016/3efe0f6/CakeManiaLightsCameraAction.rar.html
OR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UXU3K2NJ

No pass!!!

The Fifth Gate

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:32:00 +0000

Brace yourself for a world of magic and potions in The Fifth Gate, a gripping Time Management game! Eden is trapped in the gardens; her only hope of returning home is restoring the gardens and unlocking five magical gates. Plants are growing, pests are coming, potions need to be made, and it’s your job to help Eden tackle them all before time runs out! Can you bring the gardens back to life and free Eden?

Download

http://hotfile.com/dl/52311553/aced34c/TheFifthGate.rar.html
OR
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b25hh97/n/TheFifthGate.rar
OR
http://www.fileserve.com/file/W4rwHS9/TheFifthGate.rar
OR
http://rapidshare.com/files/404699528/TheFifthGate.rar

No pass!!!

Golden Trails: The New Western Rush

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:28:00 +0000

Saddle up for fun and become a sheriff in Golden Trails: The New Western Rush. Use your Hidden Object talents to find the culprits behind a bank robbery, and bring them to justice. Play innovative minigames as you explore intriguing storylines and meet unique characters. Immerse yourself in the amazing atmosphere of the legendary Wild West, and catch the crooks in Golden Trails: The New Western Rush.

Download
http://hotfile.com/dl/56359413/fcddf94/GoldenTrailsV1.1.3.rar.html
OR
http://www.fileserve.com/file/cVuQTKW/GoldenTrailsV1.1.3.rar
OR
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b4g1c0c/n/GoldenTrailsV1.1.3.rar

No pass!!!

Elixir of Immortality

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:26:00 +0000

Journey to a foreboding island as you go on the hunt for a murderer in Elixir of Immortality, a fun Adventure game! Gather evidence and track down the criminal before they strike again! Discover ancient secrets as you explore the mysterious island, and find the legendary Elixir of Immortality that so many have tried to find! Do you dare drink the Elixir?

Download
http://hotfile.com/dl/55140451/8cf3521/ElixirOfImmortalityIncGuide.zip.html
OR
http://www.fileserve.com/file/2FvqK24/ElixirOfImmortalityIncGuide.zip
OR
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2944h4/n/ElixirOfImmortalityIncGuide.zip

No pass!!!

3D Hunting 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:03:00 +0000

Get ready to track down 26 different types of animals ranging from deer to elephants in a variety of exotic locations around the world – including the African savannah, North American prairies and European forests. In 3D Hunting 2010, you can purchase 16 different and varied weapons including bows, hunting rifles and other items to improve your tracking, shooting and hiding skills. Stalk your prey and remain undiscovered by park rangers and game wardens.

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/387503517/3D.Hunting.2010-ALiAS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/387502978/3D.Hunting.2010-ALiAS.part2.rar
No Pass
Link Interchangeable

Hamlet v1.01-TE

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:02:00 +0000

Mayhem and hilarity ensue when a scientist travels back in time and gets mixed up with characters from William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet! Guide the man from the future as he embarks on a mind-bending mission to save Hamlet’s girlfriend, Ophelia, from the clutches of the evil Claudius. Solve a variety of cunning puzzles and advance from one sidesplitting scene to the next as you defeat bosses and overcome mental obstacles in this fun Adventure game.

Download
No Pass
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Rocket Knight

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:33:00 +0000

Sparkster makes his triumphant arrival on XBLA, PSN and Steam with Rocket Knight, the latest entry in the classic 2D side-scrolling rocket action series. Our favorite opossum hero returns home after 15 years to find the kingdom of Zephyrus in shambles. Use your wits and Sparkster’s trusty rocket pack to dodge and defeat a menacing wolf army threatening the lives of his people.

Features:

Gorgeous next-gen graphics and dazzling new environments. You’ve never seen Sparkster like this before!
All new levels and challenges. Four exciting new worlds, featuring expansive platform stages and thrilling flight stages!
Classic rocket action gameplay. Launch and bounce Sparkster through obstacles and enemies that get in his way!
Who’s the best? Show off your high scores and fastest times with Leaderboards.

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/387496426/Rocket.Knight-HI2U.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/387496604/Rocket.Knight-HI2U.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/387496340/Rocket.Knight-HI2U.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/387495797/Rocket.Knight-HI2U.part4.rar

Journey of Hope v1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:13:00 +0000

Jade Pearce has grown up in the shadow of her father, a world famous archeologist. When he turns up missing, though, it’s up to her to find him before it’s too late. Since Jade’s beauty and intelligence will only get her so far, she needs your help finding and deciphering the trail of clues her father left in his desperate wake. Explore exotic locations, find hidden objects and solve clever puzzles in this breathtaking journey toward the unknown! From locating the staff of Montezuma to stealing the armor of Cortez, you won’t know where this adventure is taking you until the final screen!

Download
No Pass!!!
Link Interchangeable!!!

Hedgewars, JCRPG, and 0AD

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:31:00 +0000

Hmm, been a while, but since nobody is using my opensourcegames reddit yet, I'd better pitch in a bit here. Qubodup and Julius have been doing a stellar job in the last several months with some great posts.

Hedgewars 0.9.13 is out. It now looks better than the game it is a clone of (Worms 2) which is a pretty significant milestone. They have also started to add some features that were not in the original (also an important step - differentiation). I could reel off a list of new features since 0.9.12 but it's a futile task given there are so many. The standout features for me are the beautiful explosions, the birdy weapon, the generally impressive new graphics themes, and the trailer:

That is about as good a lesson in Internet marketing as you can get. Beautifully timed to the music, based on a very famous song, but in the style of the game characters. I found it to be very impressive and that's a trend since I originally tried out Hedgewars back when looking at all the available Worms/Artillery clones.

JCRPG

The ever-promising JCRPG has been ported from one Java 3D technology (jMonkeyEngine) to another (Ardor3D). The latter is a newer engine from the creators of the former, and seems to have taken several lessons on board with the design. The motivation for the port was difficult to debug crashes, but a number of nice enhancements have been discovered along the way and JCRPG really looks sumptuous.

Hopefully soon the game will start to get a bit of a storyline as well as beautiful scenery!

Finally, a pre-alpha download of 0ad is available. This utterly gorgeous looking historically-based RTS has so much potential. They have struggled to get more developers involved since originally going open source. I have been encouraging them to make a release and follow up with regular releases in order to expand the pool from which they may discover new contributors.

Here is a 2 year old trailer for 0ad.

Maybe they should make a new one, that could also be a marketing boost for the project.

ERROR 42: DEPRECATED DIMENSION; RESOLUTION NOT SUPPORTED

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:55:00 +0000

NOTE! YOU SHALL NOT FEED FROM THIS MESSAGE! REDIRECT BROWSER COURSE TO OUR INTERNET WEB PRESENCE NOW! CONTINUE

GREETINGS HUMANS WE COME IN PEACE AS LONG AS YOU OBEY! YOUR IRRELEVANT INHABITANCE OF THE SUPERFLUOUS THIRD DIMENSION WILL COME TO AN END! COLOR SPECTRUM REDUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE! CONTINUE

YOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF A MULTITUDE OH ANCIENT MODERN HISTORY. PROCEED! CONTINUE

WE HAVE COME TO LEARN ALSO! YOU MUST LEAD US TO 2D VECTOR AWESOMENESS IN THE COMMENT SECTION! vvv END

ps: you probably missed it.

One little bit of roguelike, One hint of click-n-point, One tiny bit of trade and then time for some things completely different

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

I make heavy use of YouTube and would like to know if this is an issue. Are you unable to play back YT videos? Don't you like videos and prefer more screenshots and text? Comment at the post's bottom or email me! If you do have troubles with YT video viewing, perhaps TinyOgg might save you. :) [example]

Doryen Arena is a real-time arena roguelike-like.. You buy weapons, you select and use skills, you kill and then you die. The end. :)

Note: This video is sped up by approx. factor 3 for technical reasons and does not represent actual game speed. So-orry!

Pyromancer, by the same developer, looks more fun to me, but I have not had the chance to test it yet.

Both projects are visually rather impressive. Pretty lighting and fading and moving health numbers... Both use libtcod, which is a "fast, portable and uncomplicated API for roguelike developpers providing an advanced true color console, input, and lots of other utilities frequently used in roguelikes". Yet again by the same developer. If you find interest in such specialized libraries, librtxy, a retro vector games lib, might be interesting to you as well.

What you see above is an example of how scenery images are structured for the adventure "Beasts". According to the project's French-language wiki [EN translation] the project uses the proprietary American Girl Scouts engine.

I would be glad if someone offered to program the game using something more open, but it is great to have a good-looking adventure developed in a foss manner. The license is WTFPL.

Note: this video might spoil you the experience of exploring the game! Play it instead.

Spice Trade is a trade-travel-explore and live-a-life game with wonderful graphics and music. You take the role of a young Baghdad farmer and have a life to master. Agriculture and hard work, religion and cult, trade and travel: these are your means of progressing. Marriage, supernatural encounters, fame and money are to achieve but there is probably much more which I haven't noticed yet.

The game has a beautiful point-and-click adventure and management interface, multiple-choice dialog and map travel. Unfortunately, there are some interface issues. Often it is not clear how much you pay for a transaction. At the start you have to pay attention and not skip the first dialog (which cannot be re-shown in a game) to know what the starting options are.

Many actions, especially "work" and "sleep" are accompanied by an animation, that takes way too long. On the other hand these drawbacks enforce a calm game style and serve as punishment for boring game play. Explanation: It is most effective to work in the harbor, as you get very much silver/day, but the animation steals much real time. Farming on the other hand is hardly profitable, but the accompanying animation is very short. The conclusion is that both forms of gaining riches are boring and that instead the player should only use these forms of earning money to be able to engage in travel and trade. That is, only if you do not like the player character to have a slow and calm life of course.

There is also battle in the game (it plays a minor role) and battle is very quick, so the feel is 'right' - boring activities bore you, because you have to wait for animations to finish, dangerous action has no waiting time.

There is at least one dangerous bug in the game. I recommend you to save the game each time before you talk to the doctor. Under certain circumstances, choosing a specific dialog tree path will result in not being able to say anything or close the dialog. So save often. :)

I have trouble with the audio system of the game, my solution was to mute it and instead play the wonderful music using a media player.

Knights is a multiplayer (there is a singleplayer mode) 2D dungeon game, in which the players have to fulfill one of many possible quests. The default is: find three gems and leave the dungeon.

I have so far only tried the tutorial level and imagine it would be great fun to play against a human player. An AI enemy would be nice too. As far as I understand, there is no such thing as of now.

It has nice graphics, effective sounds, a impressive and simple but at first confusing user interface (press-hold direction keys to execute context-sensitive actions).

Also: the following command might save you some confusion: './knights -d knights_data/'. If you care about licenses, this thread reveals a little about the content's.

Qonk is a minimal invade-all-planets time-is-the-only-resource RTS. Last developer activity was nearly 1000 days ago but latest SVN is stable. Qonk is a beautiful time waster.

Cuby is a very pleasant-looking and -sounding puzzle game and it has nothing to do with lame rubik's cubes! Cuby uses the Raydium engine, which has a weird build system. This post will aid you in your quest of compiling it well, if compiling is required.

WARNING: MUSIC!

Dusted's Wizznic! was introduced at our forums. It is a nice small puzzle game, a clone of Puzznic for Gp2X Wiz, Linux and Win. Contributors should be able to add levels and themes easily.

If you like this game's visual or controls style, you have to check out Dusted's other games: SDL-Ball and OldSkoolGravityGame.

Ethanon is a quite amazing 2D (I repeat, 2D) game engine in development. No Linux version yet but porting will become a priority sooner or later. You can discuss the engine in this thread or on their google group.

Blockling is a puzzle game with cute pixel art gfx and retro sounds. "You are a young blockling who must stack blocks to reach the exit in successive levels!"

Weaver: Magic FPS, OpenArena 0.8.5, Evidyon, Code Summers and web findings

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:59:00 +0000

Weaver

Weaver [introduction] is an objective-based ("invade checkpoints") team fps with a simple gesture sequence spell casting system. It uses the XreaL engine and is currently in an early development stage. Maps are under construction and a few spells are in place. Code is GPL-licensed, "Media will aim to use Creative Commons licenses."

Weaver concept art

Weaver's current spellcasting interface (Goethe's color wheel [1] ;) )

The level work I was able to witness is impressive. TRaK is the designer, which explains it.

Strolling in bow_block of Weaver - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh5NQ1iT3Gg

Weaver's introduction includes a simple game design document. Compilation instructions are located here, communication happens over forum and IRC.

OpenArena 0.8.5

OpenArena has a new website look and a new patch release. It provides new or improved weapon effects, player skins, menu UI (video, compare to old), icons...

OA 0.8.1 icons

OA 0.8.5 icons

...and maps. For example:

OA 0.8.5 Botmatch DM on am_underworks2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrzGKL3zcg

Even though OpenArena is supposed to be a freely licensed Quake3 clone (with an anime theme) it also adds new weapons and game modes. I recently tested some of them, for example the Overload game mode, in which you have to destroy the enemy's base crystal:

OA 0.8.5 Overload on ps9ctf - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Cpfldgsso

Evidyon

The Evidyon MMORPG's developer expressed their interest for making the game run on Linux and finds it to be relatively simple task. More info in this thread.

Don't have much to add to that. I'm glad to hear that it's possible and I hope that somebody will want to take such a programming job. Here's the latest gameplay video of the game to make completing this task more desirable: :)

Evidyon Town Guards - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWcCH6Td0Q

Google and Ruby Summers of Code

Battle for Wesnoth, Blender, Crystal Space, FreedroidRPG, Thousand Parsec, Tux4Kids and WorldForge take part in GoogleStudentsOpenCash.

EDIT: I was just informed, that NeL will share WorldForge's GSoC permission.

By accident (I wanted to get on the Rigs of Rods IRC channel but found myself on a ruby one) I discovered the existence of the RubyStudentsOpenCash. Any FOSS game projects besides Rubygame that could benefit from this? :)

And.. some websites

Blendswap, the new blender file sharing site will probably use CC0, BY and BY-SA as available licenses [2] and that makes me glad..

I discovered SampleSwap (via this post), which has a CC-licensed music category. It is impossible to filter by license (non-free CC flavors are supported), but at least it is easy to identify it, if you care about the terms. It uses yahoo's handy proprietary flash audio player and lists individual tracks instead of the ancient album-model that Jamendo chose. This makes it much nicer to browse for me.

Last bit of info: GameBoom is a site that wants to bring foss games to the people. It tries to do so not by covering only foss games but by allowing gratis games, while promoting the free as in freedom ones.

They are looking for bloggers/game reviewers, so if you are not on a strict foss diet, maybe there's a game you would like to introduce over there? Always remember though, that guest posts are welcome on this blog as well. ;) Just contact us via forum, irc or email (I'm sure you'll be able to find the links up there :) ).

EDIT: Remember GameJolt, another games-thing, where open source games are given attention.

SCOURGE2: first steps

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0000

SCOURGE2 development has started. It uses jME and LWJGL. Easy portability is the promise (low-level-of-detail SCOURGE2 version on Android anyone?).

All you can do in the latest Subversion revision is walk around on an island:

SCOURGE2 early alpha - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3go1axCwCoI

One great thing about SCOURGE2: it's not called S.C.O.U.R.G.E.2! ;)

I took this opportunity to record some S.C.O.U.R.G.E. gameplay. The first fight starts at ⅔ of the video.

Scourge gameplay (downloadable if you login on Viddler.)

I like the game very much: many items, many fights, not too hard, leveling, skills and missions. I did not progress far, but as far as I got it appeared to be a solid slash-and-hack RPG!

At my first attempts of playing the game I was confused by having a vast amount of hire-able NPCs and items lying around in the game start area and I had troubles finding out how to get started with the action (get a mission and bash some monsters), so there is a slight entry hurdle.

Another problem is that the mouse-to-game-objects interaction of S.C.O.U.R.G.E. is very sludgy: I find it hard to aim at items and enemies, often I'm not sure if my next click will cause my character to move or to attack, often the cursor is above an object but the object is not highlighted. Camera control is also a bit painful, the rotation speed is overly sensitive and in battle, the camera jumps instantly to active characters instead of a quick but smooth sliding camera movement. I of course hope that transporting content and gameplay to the new engine will be trivial and that the new engine will bring smooth controls.

To those more experienced with the game: how far did you get in the storyline? How far *can* you progress?

Xonotic - Nexuiz the Free

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:33:00 +0000

The first piece of news is that console Nexuiz will be re-written from scratch, because some coders decided against giving permission for a proprietary port (Slashdot , interview). This means no code contributions to Nexuiz.

Secondly, Nexuiz has been forked under the name Xonotic. Because philosophy, because management, because change.

I can't complain! Git repository instead of Subversion, no more tikiwiki (I hope) finally a feed for news (has been added to our Planet)! Open management and content enhancements are on the list of plans and promises, perhaps a little too much even, which led to the creation of a critical thread on our forums.

I have had the pleasure to test the warpzone/visible-portal feature (which is available in Nexuiz' SVN as well):

youtube-dl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4zk-31sVU

Currently, instructions to get Xonotic (using git) are here. Compilation is easy and right now the game starts using "./all run -nexuiz".

If you want to get involved, get on their forums and/or get on their IRC! The website is still in development, a public wiki is in the works.

So what do you think about the fork? I understand the "divided we are weaker" point, but console Nexuiz has caused much confusion and a new project (Xonotic) seems like a clear cut and new hope™. Also.. "Xonotic" sounds slightly better than "Nexuiz" in my most humble ears. :)

The Palace Builder v1.0.1.101

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +0000

In 18th century France, you are a young, unknown architect looking for your big break and a chance to impress the Queen. In this building Simulation game, set in the romantic upper class world of French aristocracy, you will design and manage the construction of the most beautiful structures in the kingdom. Will your work attract the attention of the Queen, or will a secret destroy your chances for fame and fortune? Find out in The Palace Builder

Download

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Defense Grid The Awakening-HI2U

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:19:00 +0000

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it’s up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base. Beautiful environments, spectacular effects, and a dynamic, engaging soundtrack bring the world to life. The controls are intuitive and the gameplay is deep — the special attacks and properties of each tower work together to provide many ways to succeed.

Features:

High Replayability There are approximately 8 hours of gameplay in the main storyline, and many hours of play in challenge modes that give players unique starting conditions and objectives. Each game level is very replayable, and can be solved in many different ways, with increasing rewards for improved efficiency.
Wide Variety of Enemies Over the course of the game, players battle 15 different enemy types that become increasingly stronger, and employ a variety of strategies in an attempt to bypass the player’s defenses. As the levels progress, the enemies become tougher and more difficult to defeat.
20 Unique Levels Defense Grid: The Awakening has 20 unique environments, each with a different placement of roads, tower build locations, and open areas to plan a strategy around.
Numerous Tower Options and Upgrades There are 10 different tower types with 3 levels of capability each. Each tower has unique trade offs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire. Some towers improve other nearby towers, and some are ideal at specific locations, such as a rear guard tower that unleashes a devastating attack.

Download

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

No Pass!!!

Alice in Wonderland v1.0.1.5-TE

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:00 +0000

Explore a new world as you meet your favorite characters, and hunt for clues to free Alice and decide the fate of Wonderland! An abandoned house holds the key to the secrets of Wonderland! Hidden Objects and tantalizing puzzles abound as you journey beyond imagination. Meet the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and many others as you try to save the day in Alice in Wonderland!

Download

No Pass!!!
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How Nexuiz did not become proprietary or: "Silly names in Games"

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:37:00 +0000

Some company will use LordHavoc's DarkPlaces engine (DPE) to publish a game on some game console(s). The development team includes "a number of Nexuiz developers, and previous Quake1 community developers". Nexuiz is a (or rather "the") FOSS FPS that uses DPE.

As far as I can tell, no assets of Nexuiz will be used. On the other hand, the soundtrack playing on the console-DPE-game homepage sounds like a remix of a Nexuiz track. I will just assume that the composer agreed to this and that the same might happen to other high-quality Nexuiz content and that it will all be legal. Lee Vermeulen (Nexuiz' lead developer) is no license-n00b after all. Also, the console game will be using Nexuiz' gameplay, which I assume means "game modes", "movement/physics" and "weapon functions/balancing".

There is one problem though: this console game has the name "Nexuiz" (please call it "console Nexuiz") and its homepage is nexuiz.com.

Why did the developers have to pass the name? Heck I don't know. Perhaps they thought every Nexuix player with a console would want to buy console Nexuiz if they gave it that name. Perhaps they wanted to use the resulting confusion to make the name known. Perhaps they just couldn't come up with a good name (very common problem you know). I can very well imagine that it will only be a development name and that the release version will be called something like Nexuiz: Frag of the Unknown. or maybe there won't be any "Nexuiz" in the final version of console Nexuiz.

Here is Vermeulen's news post about console Nexuiz (did you know that every news page that has no atom/rss feed sucks?). The essence of the post is this:

Nexuiz development will continue

Console Nexuiz' assets will not be open source

Console Nexuiz' code improvements will be open source

Nexuiz' developers ("Alientrap") will receive royalties if console Nexuiz creates profit. It is not yet clear who will get what percentage but Alientrap intends to be transparent about it.

Here is the announcement by the company behind the console Nexuiz and a long discussion. (The company's name is illfonic, but that hardly matters.)

Here is a blog post that provides much more information about console Nexuiz.

No more console Nexuiz talk below this line.

I noticed a nice feature of the Nexuiz 2.5.2 release announcement:

Some of the biggest changes are:

New gamemode: CTS (get from A to B). With map "CyberParcour01" by sev, and a nexrun map "Piece o' cake" by FruitieX

Aggressor and stormkeep retextured by FruitieX

Tutorial map by FruitieX

TraK4-mit and TraK5 texturepacks by TraK

New HUD by FruitieX and -z-

New Scoreboard style by terencehill

Weapon accuracy statistics by Dib (ALT key by default)

Rocket guidance by holding down the primary fire button (seeker removed)

Level Of Detail on all playermodels

Video settings only show the allowed resolutions reported by your OS

(not availible in AGL)

Motion blur and damage blur by Samual

Did you notice it? I'm talking about the names behind each feature item. It makes new versions so much more personal. Well, a little bit. What I really would like to have as attribution/credits features is having a game mode where author name, license name and optional short description flow above each asset in a map while playing it.. I know, crazy talk.. Or something like Half-Life 2's developer's commentary?... ah, a man can dream..

Ok, back to Nexuiz. "Tutorial map"? Well! This can only be disappointing, right? :D *watches video*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESt4rqG-BUQ

Well, that wasn't too bad! Even a bit entertaining! I was expecting some text-only hour-long explanation how to press the arrow keys for movement. Yay for voice acting! Yay for expecting player to know the basics! Yay Nexuiz tutorial!

One could enhance the tutorial by making audio tracks skip, when the player has succeeded in reaching the goal described in the current audio track. Also I'm curious what kind of sarcastic comments will result from death/suicide/failure (if at all possible).

First PARPG Techdemo

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:21:00 +0000

PARPG ("Post-Apocalyptic Role Playing Game") Techdemo 1 is out:

You can walk around, talk to other characters, change to different (placeholder) maps, listen to background audio tracks and play around with the settings.

There is a little more: container items and basic inventory functions work as well. Battle, quests, character development and interactive map objects (locks and traps?) are what is missing from allowing to implement a loaded rpg.

Another piece of news is that the project manager, barra, is leaving his position. The best place to discuss PARPG's management's future is their IRC. You can also read more about barra's stepping down in this IndieRPGs article or this PARPG announcement.

Of course the project is seeking a new manager to take over the management tasks. We shall hope for a brave and experienced sir or lady to claim that throne. (Did I mention that the decision-making process is rather democratic in PARPG?)

The developers are restless of course and are working on the plan for the next tech demo! Read this proposal of features and participate in its discussion!

Yet another piece of news: you can now listen to all game audio tracks on this page. (So far only one has been featured in gameplay videos). My current favorite is Timong's "Depths 1":

Strimko

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Jump into Strimko and enjoy classic Sudoku gameplay with a twist! Take on hundreds of puzzles in Classic mode, or help Luana save her planet in the exciting Adventure mode. Create number streams and find magical amulets to power up Luana’s magical Astrolabe! Use your Strimko skills to unlock the treasure chests and protect the entire planet. Can you master the art of this unique Puzzle game?

* Unique and original gameplay
* Hundreds of puzzles
* Master the art of Strimko!

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Potion Bar

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Plunge into the captivating world of magic! Make delicious potions with Rainbow spray and Vampire fangs and serve them to fantastic clients. Decorate glasses with wild lotuses and Phoenix feathers. Witness your amazing potions endow incredible power, reverse aging and help get to the secrets of the Universe. Travel world and space, see prophetic dreams and solve the enigmatic mystery in Potion Bar, a fun and exciting Time Management game!

* Fast-paced gameplay
* Unique potions to create
* Sell magical potions!

System Requirements:

* OS: Windows XP/Vista
* CPU: 600 Mhz
* RAM: 256 MB
* DirectX: 8.1
* Hard Drive: 64 MB

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Diner Dash 5: BOOM

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:42:00 +0000

When a sneaky prankster removes the word “fat” from Flo’s “Fat Free Breakfast” sign, a huge wave of hungry DinerToons overrun the diner. BOOM – Flo’s Diner is smashed to bits! As Flo you must serve customers in unusual locations, as you customize your own diner to play as the final level. Earn the necessary cash to rebuild poor Flo’s diner in Diner Dash 5: BOOM, a fun and exciting Time Management game.

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Secret Mission: The Forgotten Island

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:39:00 +0000

The Military has hired world-renowned scientist Chanel Flores to explore a mysterious island that has suddenly appeared in the Bermuda Triangle! During her flight to the island, a mysterious electrical fog engulfed her plane, and forced her to parachute to safety. Help Chanel explore the island, and make her way back to her ship in Secret Mission – The Forgotten Island, a fun and exciting Hidden Object game.

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Farm Frenzy 3: Ice Age

noreply@blogger.com (Doncrack) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:14:00 +0000

Chill out with an all-new Farm Frenzy adventure! Join Scarlett as she travels to the North Pole to check out a farm she purchased through a newspaper ad. When she arrives, she not only finds the property in a state of disrepair, she also meets two brothers who could use her help making ice cream. While whipping up chilly treats and having some frosty fun, you'll breed and care for penguins and other arctic animals, manufacture new products and enjoy fun Time Management gameplay!

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