Hi everyone!
I've been blogging about free games for a while now and find it really fun. There's one thing I've been thinking about though, and that is when it's ok for developers to mention projects and post an article about them. I'm guessing that an official release, like a project homepage writing "0.8 has been released - here's what's new!" is no problem. In that case the developers want the information to be known and I have no problems posting about it. But as for projects only mentioned on their homepage as being in progress, or even more so, projects mentioned in the "Project Showcase" here on FreeGameDev Forums, would that be okay to post? I have done so a few times, but I have also waited as I haven't been sure if it would be okay for the developer to spread the word with a blog post if the game is not publicly announced more than on this forum.
Myself, as a developer, I would consider it ok to post any time I have written something about any of my games myself. Otherwise I wouldn't write at all. This is the internet afterall.
But I don't know if everyone feels like that. What do you others around here feel? Are there any situations you would not want your games mentioned on a FOSS-games blog?