Free Gamer - Open Source Games (Free/Libre)

Not too much happening here on our blog, but in light of the recent changes in freenode ownership we decided to host our own IRC server.
You can access the #general channel on irc.freegamedev.net (SSL only, port 6697). For now it still bridges back to the old #freegamer on freenode....

Hi and welcome back to another rare post from your favorite open-source games blog :) Oh and yes I am also in quarantine due to Covid-19... stay save and stay at home!
So these days I had *some* time to check out recent developments in the probably most "just another turn" time wasting genre: 4x space strategy games....

Just came across this cool video and project which aims to implement a Mecha game and SDK on the Quake1 engine (Darkplaces specifically):
You can find more details on their website and the Github repository.
Art assets are apparently not available yet due to some non-free placeholders, but I hope this will be changed soon. Also no multiplayer, but that might be possible to fix....

You might remember end of last year's Game Off game jam sponsored by Github. The winners have been annouced a while ago, and while again quite a few submissions were using closed source game engines, the overall winner isn't.
So make sure you don't miss Sealed Bite, a fun little/short jump and run:...