My Games Design

I have outed myself previously as not a big Minecraft fan, so take everything in this post with a grain of salt (as I obviously don't really understand that genre). Anyways... recently this sub-reddit for open-source games was pointed out in our forums, and while it isn't really as lively as others (for example the Linux gaming one ) it pointed out an new project called Iceball : Pre-alpha Iceball screenshot Seemingly made by people not happy with the recent commercialization of Ace of Spades , it's an all FOSS remake, those early development you can follow here (or on their Github page ). Now maybe the graphics are lacking on purpose (see disclaimer above), but I couldn't help to think: why for f***'s sake did they have to reinvent the wheel with their own engine instead of using for example Terasology : Or Minetest , or the Ardorcraft API for that matter??? Ahh well, at least it made me aware that Terasology is still very much under development, and with its f

While Blender3D is one of the premier FOSS projects out there, its integral part the Blender Game Engine (BGE) is often belittled as not a serious game engine. While the criticism is certainly not completely unfounded   and the integration of limited "non-programming" game code creation (via logic bricks) gives it a bit of a "RPG maker" image, it really is a quite interesting platform to work on it seems. Ok, probably as of now the BGE is really more of a rapid game prototyping engine, but previous experience during the Yo, Frankie! project has actually shown that at least compared to some other well known FOSS engines, it is a serious contender (that Blender Foundation project originally started on Crystal Space , and after many problems was implemented in the BGE in a few weeks only). So what makes it so interesting? Well for one there is the full integration with a creation tool (obviously Blender3D) so that getting your content into the game is only a matter