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Solarus is a free and open source cross-platform game engine for 2D action-RPGs

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

Today thanks to a game developer, I was made aware of Solarus. It's a cross-platform free and open source game engine, that's designed for people making 2D action-RPGs.

Free and open source event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

Creating awesome 2D games can be made quite easy, thanks to tools like GDevelop, the free and open source game engine that has an events-driven system so even beginners can use it.

OpenRA for classic Red Alert and Command & Conquer has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Dune 2000, Red Alert, Command & Conquer - all classics and all playable on Linux with the cross-platform open source OpenRA.

Godot Engine having a code refactor - upcoming Wayland support plus performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2020

The team behind Godot Engine continue to push what an open source game engine can do, with a recent big release now behind them work continues towards another with some impressive changes.

Open source modern Caesar III game engine 'Julius' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2020

Get ready to build a city with the classic Caesar III, as the developer behind the open source game engine Julius tagged a big new release.

Godot Engine enters new territory with Vulkan API support merged in for the upcoming 4.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2020

While not actually released yet and not due until later this year with Godot Engine 4.0, the Vulkan parts have now been merged into the main Godot project.

UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Late last month to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D, the EDuke32 fork Raze was announced.

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

OpenRA has a new release for classic Westwood real-time strategy - massive upgrade also in testing

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

The team working on OpenRA, the game engine that keeps classic Westwood real-time strategy games alive have pushed out a new release. Plus there's some real exciting advancements coming.

Godot Engine 3.2 is out - advancing this FOSS game engine 'with quality as priority'

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2020

After nearly a year of development, the free and open source game engine Godot Engine has a big new feature-filled release out with 3.2 focusing on quality as their priority.

Godot Engine continues advancing Vulkan support, plus Nakama Godot first release

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2020

Two bits of news relating to the free and open source game engine, Godot Engine, to share today and it's quite exciting.

Unity 2019.3 is now out - adds Google Stadia support and IL2CPP on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2020

Another big new release of the Unity game engine has today been released with 2019.3, full to the brim with massive tech enhancements.

OpenRA for classic Westwood RTS games has a new build in need of testing

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Following on from a major release last year, the team working on OpenRA have a new test release up that requires testing.

Godot Engine 3.2 is almost here with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Godot Engine, the quickly improving free and open source game engine is getting real close to a major release with the first Release Candidate now up for Godot 3.2.

Move over Sonic, Surge has arrived with Open Surge - a game engine and retro platformer

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

I grew up playing the early Sonic games so Open Surge really speaks to me. A retro Sonic-inspired platformer (that's actually quite polished already) and a game engine for others to create with it.

Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2020

Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.