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December 10, 2008

A new free commerical game for linux!

Filed under: ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — gordallott @ 4:38 pm

Savage2 screenshot

Savage2 screenshot


It seems the the commercial game ’savage 2′ (which has a Linux version) has gone free (as in money, not software). It may not be to everyone’s tastes but its an okay game. https://savage2.s2games.com/main.php for more info. The slight catch is that there exists ‘prime accounts’ which cost $9.99, but if you are playing the free version so much that you want a prime account, you’ll probably not mind paying.

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is totally free to play, but you have the option of creating a Prime account for just $9.99. There are multiple advantages to a Prime account, such as two additional inventory slots, unlimited play as Hellbourne units, access to player statistics both online and in-game, and the ability to download a replay of every Savage 2 match ever played! Spread the word, help the development community by supporting companies that want to make unique and innovative games.

Its always nice to see game companies not only supporting the Linux platform but actually looking towards the future of making money from games. slapping a thousand different types of drm onto your game will only get it pirated. thinking up clever new oss inspired business models will make you money.

September 14, 2008

i made an open source, fully free (as in the software) game! in a week!

Filed under: ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — gordallott @ 1:23 am

wheeee http://www.pyweek.org/e/CS-L/

It took a week and i had to stay up all the time and i got no sleep but its finally done :) works great on ubuntu too!

now i can get back to the other free software projects i ignored for the past week or so whist i was doing that =\ sorry, its something i have wanted to do for a long time…

obligitory screenshot!

September 9, 2008

pyweek is a week of hard work

Filed under: ubuntu — Tags: , , — gordallott @ 1:04 am

This week i have decided to enter pyweek, its a 6-monthy python coding competition, you are given a ‘theme’ and have precicly one week to develop an entire game based on that theme. well its tuesday in said week and its *hard work*.

I am of course coding on linux (ubuntu) thus it all should work nicely on ubuntu. What we could really use though is some help bug testing the engine we have on on the last day (saturday), anyone interested running some simple bug tests for me and is free on saturday, hopefully also has an ati or intel card too, then gimme a poke on irc :)

this is our entry by the way http://www.pyweek.org/e/CS-L/

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