Interesting new(ish) projects

[charlie]

This one looks a peach:
http://farcolony.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/farcolony/

"FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century. The game will include management and strategy in more or less long term, where use of military force is not an required way."

Screenshot:
http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=258588

[charlie]

Seven Kingdoms update?

I don't even know what Seven Kingdoms is. Looks like a commercial game released under GPL?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/skfans/
http://www.7kfans.com/

The site has no screenshots.

[Julius]

Seven Kindoms (1 and 2) is a pretty nice old school RTS (released 1999 or so). I wasn't aware that the source got released, but it might make a nice addition to the free game library. Looks like the media is still unfree though (but can be purchased cheaply on GoodOldGames).

Also a pity that they are just using the winelib for the linux port.

Overall I am not really excited about it though, as the code itself promises little upgradability.

P.S.: Screenshots here: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/seven_kingdoms_2

[TheAncientGoat]

This is pretty darn cool, maybe deserves its own post: http://gamejolt.com/open-source/games/r ... aker/2479/

Pity it only has a windows build for the moment, not sure what it would take to get it cross platformed...

Also, it's interesting to see a "good" opensource project that's not GameMaker on GameJolt, maybe a glitter of hope in there yet

[EDIT] Did some research, depends on Evaldraw which is non-free and win32 only. So unfortunately, looks like this project holds little interest to us, unless someone wants to make a GNU-Eval :P