I haven't really used ScummVM even though I've heard good things about it but it's possible that this might change with these news. Support for Myst and Myst: Masterpiece Edition has now been added to the daily builds and is ready for testing.
The 0 A.D. developers sent word out today that the packaging for alpha 20 has begun, and release candidate testing will happen soon. I've done some highlights of what's to come!
Not exactly gaming news, but could be useful for developers. Dwango has obtained the rights to the animation software Toonz used by Studio Ghibli and plan to release an open source version named OpenToonz.
OpenTTD 1.6.0-RC1 has been released for the open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.6 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.
More good news for developers, as the Atomic Game Engine is now open source under the MIT license. It's available on github right now.
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a long time Linux game porter is working on getting the Serious Engine 1 source code release working on Linux, with official blessing.
It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.
Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.
I do hope Godot becomes popular, as it looks like it has some really great features and it's fully open source!
For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.
Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Jason Ekstrand, a developer hired by Intel has done a presentation about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016. The slides are interesting, but not too in-depth to overwhelm you.
This is pretty awesome news, a very promising HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games has become open source!
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.1 has many small changes including 38 bugfixes.
Ah goodie, it's update day for the Itch app, this is becoming one of my favourite days. I love the effort put into it, and this release is no different with it now translated to 30+ languages.
Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.
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