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The GOL GOTY Awards page is open for nominations, voting after
23 December 2015 at 7:41 am UTC

How can you nominate a game for a category? If I try to add, there is a system message that this game already exists or something like that, but it is not in the respective category.

Warsow, the free online FPS game hits the big 2.0 release
16 December 2015 at 11:27 am UTC

Quoting: GuestDo you know some videos to learn 3D art? :)

There is plenty. One of the best sources is Blender Cookie:
https://cgcookie.com/learn-blender/

But you can also find great sources totally for free all over the Internet, no need to pay anything (but Blender Cookie is more convenient).

Maybe this also helps:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Complete-Blender-Game-Art-Tutorial-From-zero-experience-to-2D-or-3D-game-ready-asset.aspx
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/making-a-musket-with-animations-finished

Blender is generally the open-source 3D modelling app of choice, but Wings3D is also good and a bit more simple to learn (but it lacks animation features).

Warsow, the free online FPS game hits the big 2.0 release
15 December 2015 at 3:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

As usual with open-source projects: they are looking for contributors :) 3D art contributions are welcome as well as engine improvements (porting simplified ragdolls from Cube2?).

It's a cool game overall and it has Counterstrike like bomb-diffuse and Team fortress Like Team modes as well.

The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians, a surprisingly great dungeon crawler
6 December 2015 at 2:37 am UTC

Have been playing this the last couple of days. The performance is very good indeed.

It feels much more "old-school" than Legend of Grimrock, in the sense that you really have to do micro-micro management of the combat already at medium difficulty levels and that there are quite frustrating difficulty spikes with the boss enemies (but you can lower difficulty the in the menu).

And while it is relatively light on story, it's kind of tongue in cheek and has a dry humor to it :)

OpenMW 0.37 released, now with the new OSG renderer
1 December 2015 at 3:28 pm UTC

I agree, a fully FOSS game based on this engine would be great, but at the moment that still seems far off.

StarDrive 2, the rather good 4x space strategy game is now on Unity 5
22 November 2015 at 3:59 pm UTC

Odd that it got all those negative reviews... at least the first hour game is great fun so far.

Sublevel Zero, The First-person Six-degree-of-freedom Shooter Now Works On Linux
22 November 2015 at 2:04 am UTC

Does anyone else have horrible audio stuttering? I would really like to play this, but for now it's unplayable even on lowest settings :(

Sublevel Zero, A First-person Roguelike Six-degree-of-freedom Shooter Released For SteamOS & Linux
20 November 2015 at 11:53 am UTC

Steam works fine here on Kubuntu 15.10. never had a problem when upgrading from 15.04.

Sublevel Zero, A First-person Roguelike Six-degree-of-freedom Shooter Released For SteamOS & Linux
20 November 2015 at 10:59 am UTC

Was hoping for a Pyrotechnica ( https://youtu.be/9YlCw7hRNI4 ) inspired 6DOF game with awesome chip-tune music that doesn't tax my *not top of the line* system (mobile 2011 i5 with a Geforce 550m) too much.

Initial impression is good, but at least on my system it is currently unplayable as the sound stutters a lot and the frame-rates (even on lowest settings) are not really good either (15-30fps I would guess).

So it seems like this was not optimized at all and I wonder if the Unity Personal Edition is somewhat crippled under Linux?

Invisible. Inc: Contingency Plan DLC Released, Offers Up More Of Everything
16 November 2015 at 12:45 pm UTC

As a single player game the regular game is way to short, and I don't really see the assumed fun in replaying the campaign several times (same story, slightly different levels). Seems like another case of a DLC adding core game functionality :( Ah well at least it's not as expensive as the Civ:BE DLCs...