Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Clonk open sourced and Free Gamer ceil(foss games)


Clonk


Clonk got open sourced! Welcome OpenClonk. Clonky! It seems to be the indie game fashion at the moment what with 0AD and all. What is Clonk?



Clonk is a multiplayer-action-tactic-skill game. It is often referred to as a mixture of The Settlers and Worms.


So, the Clonk developers open sourced it, but since backwards compatability is a big problem for them, they ditched all Clonk content and are asking the community to contribute new game content. Judging by the forum, the community looks very active, it's a case of 'watch this space' I guess.





The above video is the "Clonk Rage" trailer. I got the impression this is what has been open sourced although I'm not sure how of the levels/content came with it, if at all. Perhaps somebody could check out the source and see where it is up to?



Anyhoo... so, Ceil... round up... get it?



Despite the lack of Free Gamer activity, the FOSS game scene is as active as ever.



Some new releases that should have been mentioned earlier:





I probably should make more of a fuss over Yo Frankie! than I do - it does look absolutely stunning as you can see in the following video - and it could yet become an important starting platform for creating other types Free games using it's materials and gameplay as a foundation:





Well, so, that's some stuff we already knew about, but what about some things we don't?



Skyscraper: A first-person 3D virtual building simulator. Perhaps not a game. I report, you decide.



Wesnoth + Bloodbowl + a blender = Wesbowl! It's early days (0.1 alpha) but good to see somebody having a bash.



Grandwing is a game being developed to be similar in gameplay to the game Spyro the Dragon.



And world's worst website award goes to... *drumroll* ...ok, I'm not going to say its the worst, but the site for YSFlight (an open source flight sim) has to be a contender.



Toodlepip!

2 comments:

Alehkhs said...

Clonk is a great game. The germans sure have a skill for turning mundane, boring lifestyles into the most fun of games.

Seven Bastards said...

From the trailer, Clonk looks more like a combination of Worms and the old Amiga/CD32 game Diggers than Settlers. Looks great either way though. Thanks, as usual, for the great tip!

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