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Prey is a first-person shooter with the player in control of Tommy as he explores the Sphere and fights the inhabitants aboard the craft.

2012-01-31T13:53:00.000-08:00

Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios and produced by 3D Realms.

The Xbox 360 port was developed by Venom Games. The game was initially released in North America and Europe on 11 July 2006, and later was made available on Valve's Steam system on 6 November 2006.

Prey uses a heavily modified version of id Tech 4 to use portals and variable gravity to create the environments the player explores.

The game's story is focused on Cherokee Domasi Tawodi as he, his girlfriend, and grandfather are abducted aboard an alien spaceship known as The Sphere as it consumes material, both inanimate and living, from the Earth in order to sustain itself. Tommy's Cherokee past allows him to let his spirit roam freely at times, and gives Tommy an edge in his attempt to stop the Sphere.

Prey had been in development in one form or another since 1995, and has had several major revisions. While the general approach to gameplay, including the use of portals, remained in the game, the story and setting changed several times. The game received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, selling more than one million copies and leading to the development of a sequel, with rights owned by the Radar Group. The rights were recently transferred to Bethesda Softworks and Id Software parent company Zenimax Media.

The story focuses on Domasi Tawodi (also known as "Tommy"), a Cherokee garage mechanic and former U.S. Army soldier living on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. At the beginning of the game, Tommy is in a bar owned by his girlfriend, Jen. Tommy is tired of living on the reservation, and constantly tries to push his heritage away, while at the same time trying to convince Jen to leave home, if only for a short while, to which she refuses steadfastly. After an unfortunate bar fight, the entire building is lifted up by a gravitational force into a green light above. Tommy, Jen, and Tommy's grandfather, Enisi, are transported back to the massive alien starship called the Sphere. After docking, all three, along with countless other captives, are dragged through the upper levels of the Sphere. Tommy is freed in an explosion set off by a stranger who, despite being cybernetic like most of the Sphere's denizens, appears to be working against it rather than for it.

Tommy witnesses Enisi's death in a brutal alien device. While trying to find Jen, he falls from a walkway and has a near-death experience where he meets with his grandfather's spirit who bestows him with spiritual powers. After returning to the world of the living, Tommy gains the ability to spirit-walk, allowing him to separate from his body to pass through forcefields and operate consoles normally out of reach, as well as the aid of his spirit guide, the ghost of his childhood pet hawk, named Talon. Despite being entrusted by his ancestor's spirits with the mission to protect all of mankind from the sphere's invasion, Tommy can't stop worrying about Jen, and he only cares about how to find and rescue her. As the game's tagline says, "Earth's savior doesn't want the job."

Features include:

* Built on an enhanced Doom 3 engine
* Multiplayer deathmatch
* Portal technology adds a new dimension to gameplay, allowing enemies to appear out of thin air and create new and completely original puzzles and gameplay styles
* Several unique gameplay elements such as Spirit Walking, Wall Walking, and Deathwalk
* Highly organic, living environment that itself can attack Tommy
* Deep, emotional story of love and sacrifice
* Tommy has a sidekick, a spiritual hawk that can help him fight enemies and decipher the alien language of the living ship
* Multiplayer game support that takes advantage of the unique gameplay styles in Prey
* PunkBuster support

Install:

Can be downloaded here.
To install: set the downloaded file to be executable and run it. chmod a+rx ./prey-installer-02192009.bin ./prey-installer-02192009.bin
You will need the PC version: either the 3 CD set, the single DVD Collector's Edition, or a normal installed copy of the game, such as you'd download via Steam. You will need a valid and unique CD key in any case. The Mac version's install disc has not been tested, and the XBox 360 version will not work.
To install the Linux version using datafiles downloaded through Steam, run the installer like this (assuming the Windows partition is mounted at "/mnt/ntfsdisk"): ./prey-installer-02192009.bin --from-install --media '/mnt/ntfsdisk/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/prey/base'

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Argonium is a standalone Multiplayer FPS powered by id software's Quake 2 engine.

2012-01-25T13:27:00.000-08:00

Argonium is a standalone Multiplayer FPS powered by id software's Quake 2 engine.

It includes over 100 sound files, over 250 image files and over 50 models.

Argonium includes 5 different weapons, 1 player character with 3 skins, 3 powerup items, armour and health items.

The game is strictly a Deathmatch game and comes with 3 levels.

The engine is released under the GNU General Public License and the sourcecode is released with the game.

Download.

argonium-1.00-i386.tar.gz (21MB)

source code

Installation.

Extract to wherever you put your games. eg. /usr/local/games/

tar xvzf argonium-1.00-i386.tar.gz -C /usr/local/games/

Run ./argonium to play!

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NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on.

2012-01-21T13:18:00.000-08:00

Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, or NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on.

Evolve your own robot army by tuning their artificial brains for challenging tasks, then pit them against your friends' teams in online competitions.

New features in NERO 2.0 include an interactive game mode called territory capture, as well as a new user interface and more extensive training tools.

NERO is a result of an academic research project in artificial intelligence, based on the rtNEAT algorithm. It is also a platform for future research on intelligent agent technology. The NERO project is run by the Neural Networks Group of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. To learn more about NERO, check the About page and the illustrative videos. To try out NERO, download the game binary and run the tutorial. To use NERO in your research or teaching, contact NERO team.

Currently, we are developing an open source successor to NERO, OpenNERO, a game platform for AI research and education. If you like NERO, please consider contributing your testing and development skills to that project. You can find out more at OpenNERO Google Code page.

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Ogrian Carpet is an outdoor First Person Shooter game with Real Time Strategy elements, inspired by the game Magic Carpet.

2012-01-14T13:13:00.000-08:00

Ogrian Carpet is a first-person 'shooter' inspired by Bullfrog's Magic Carpet. It started as a remake of Arabian Flights, which I made from Oct 2002 to Oct 2003. My goal was to create an impressive demo of my coding ability, to facilitate my entrance into the games development industry when I graduate.

I wrote it in java because I am very good at java, and I believed it would allow me to get a good project done (reletively) quickly. I was correct, and I am very happy with the result. However, Arabian Flights is plauged with Java3D library bugs (which may never be fixed) and bad performance. Also, Most 3D games are not written in Java.

Thus, I decided to re-make the game in a whole other language, namely C++. I found the Ogre3D engine and realized it would make an excellent graphics library for my remake. Thus the name 'Ogrian Carpet'. I was espeically pleased with Ogre when I was able to make a landscape with ocean, sky, and islands in a matter of hours based on the examples. What had taken me 30 hours to do with Java3D took less then 5 hours of simply cutting and pasting from the Ogre Examples. The result was significantly prettier too. I quickly set up a SourceForge account and threw together this webpage.

The Purpose of Arabian Flights was to show off my coding ability. To facilitate this, I open-sourced it. This means that anyone can get the source code freely, and even use it in their own projects (as long as their project is also licenced under the GPL). This also meant that I could use SourceForge's resources for free, including ad-free webhosting and CVS services.

I waited until I was done with Arabian Flights before releasing it under the GPL, but for Ogrian Carpet, I am releasing it under the GPL from the beginning. I feel that I have proven my ability to code alone, and I welcome any help on my current project.

If you want to work on Ogrian Carpet with me, simply sign up with SourceForge as a developer (if you haven't already) and send me an email saying you want to join the team.

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35 Fresh RSS Icons Sets for EveryTime.

2012-01-10T12:32:00.000-08:00

Bloggers and webmasters are applying RSS syndication in the direction of converting their blog visitors into regular readers.

This time, we gathered once again some noticeable rss icons from all over the web that can surely attract and encourage your readers to subscribe your blog feeds.

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Open Quartz is a replacement for the Quake game data under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

2012-01-03T12:13:00.000-08:00

Open Quartz is a project to supply GPL'ed artwork in the form of PAK and WAD files to create a fully GPL game based around the GPL'ed quake sourcecode.This includes models, maps, soundfx and textures.

Open Quartz is a replacement for the Quake game data under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

So what is Open Quartz? Basically, it is a replacement for the Quake 1 game data under the terms of the GNU General Public License. In addition, GPLed tools are developed to support developers of content for the Quake engine.

On 31 May 1996, id Software released the game Quake, which became a huge success. In 1999, the sourcecode for Quake was released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Thus peolple could improve the engine and use the engine to create their own games. Soon after the source release, the QuakeForge project was startet to create a cross-platform engine that would appeal to many people.

But having only a GPLed engine but non-free data files was unsatisfiyng so the QuakeForge team also startet Open Quartz.

Though being abandoned for many years, the project is going again thanks to new and devoted developers. But your help is still appreciated, there is a lot to do.

Why is having a free engine and non-free data so unsatisfying? Quake can still be easily aquired from the id Store and a Shareware Version is also available.

Yeah, that's true. Quake is a great game and we encourage everyone to buy it. Combined with up-to-date engines like Darkplaces, QuakeForge and Tenebrae it's still a great experience. The reasons why OpenQuartz is developed lie not with the availability of Quake nor is Quake a bad game.

It's just that both a free engine and a free data set result in a lot more options and possibilities for developers and the end-user. It's for example not possible to ship Quake with any free Linux distribution like Debian.

But you can do that with OpenQuartz. Also, when you want to create an own game using one of the advanced Quake engines, you have to recreate everything from scratch. With OpenQuartz, you have a lot of free content already availabe which means a lot less work. Also, creating standalone games from existing Quake Mods is now easily possible thanks to Open Quartz.

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Atomic Tanks, a simple to play strategy game where you have to take out your enemy.

2011-12-25T02:30:00.000-08:00

Atanks is a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games.

Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition.

What's New in Atomic Tanks 4.7:

· Shields reactivate properly if they are knocked out.
· Fixed issue where if the first player was neutral they would not receive credit for wins.
· Fixed issue with the credit system where games end in a draw.
· Fixed background drawing code so that if no image is available we now avoid a crash and generate a new image.
· Made it possible to adjust the game's speed in a more fine-tuned manner.
· Shields now reactivate at the end of the player's turn, not the beginning.
· Code clean up to remove legacy file support.
· Added patches from CtHx to allow alternative key usage.
· A, D, W, S can be used in place of left, right, up and down. The R and F keys in place of PageUp and PageDown. The P key will work like the ESC key during combat rounds. The H and J key will move the tank, if the player has fuel.
· Added header file needed for newer versions of GCC.
· Fixed header file include code for FreeBSD.
· If Allegro doesn't start properly we now display an error and exit.
· Fixed bug where the height and width command line parameters were ignored.
· If the player has shield power left at the end of the round, the shield item is credited back to the player.
· Tanks should no longer get extra turns during the round.

Requirements:

You'll need to have the Allegro game library installed. Atomic Tanks should compile and run on any platform Allegro works on.

It may also work on Solaris 8 and above (according to http://www.solaris4you.dk). Let me know if you can confirm this, and also if you get it working on any other platforms.

There are Allegro dlls for Win32 and the Allegro source is available for download.
The Allegro libraries are also available precompiled for Linux as Debian packages and rpms.

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Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers.

2011-08-07T05:26:00.000-07:00

Frets on Fire (FoF) is a free, open-source Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo. Players use the keyboard to play along with markers which appear on screen, with the aim to score points, achieve a high point multiplier, and complete a song. Frets on Fire was the winner of the Assembly 2006 game development competition.

The game is written in the Python programming language, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, although the game incorporates other free and open-source code under other licenses. The game's included song files and some internal fonts are proprietary, and their redistribution is not permitted outside of the Frets On Fire executable.

Frets on Fire is a video game that imitates the commercial game Guitar Hero. It is playable on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The player presses buttons in time to coloured markers, which appear on-screen, the markers are matched with the rhythm of the music. Frets on Fire can be played by using a keyboard by pressing the fret buttons and pick buttons, although there is support for joysticks, meaning that with the appropriate adapter and/or software, various guitar-type controllers can be used as well.

Coloured square-shaped markers appear on the player's screen, synchronized with the song and are played by holding the fret buttons that correspond with the correct colour and pressing one of the pick button at the correct moment. Every ten correct hits increase the score multiplier, which multiplies the points for every hit by up to four times. The multiplier is reset when the player misses a note or strums at the wrong time.

Alternate versions.

One popular version of the game is Frets on Fire X (commonly abbreviated FoFiX), a fork developed from a series of mods of version 1.2.451 of Frets on Fire. As well as having support for 4 players,[10] this fork supports custom graphical themes (which enables users to create a Guitar Hero or Rock Band look-alike), bass and drum tracks and preliminary support for lyrics. The latest stable version of FoFiX is 3.121 released on December 7, 2009. Currently in development for version 4.000 is the inclusion of Online-Multiplayer, Video Background Support, and support for both Guitar Hero and Rock Band styles of play among many others.

The University of Nevada developed a modified version of Frets on Fire called Blind Hero which uses a haptic glove to make this game accessible to players who are visually impaired.

A similar game has been developed as homebrew for the Nintendo Wii named Guitars On Fire, which uses Frets of Fire songs, and incorporates the use of the guitar controller.

Download for Linux:

Version 1.3.110:

Full version

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LongoMatch is a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists, to assist them on making games video analysis.

2011-08-07T01:12:00.000-07:00

LongoMatch is a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists, to assist them on making games video analysis.

It simplifies video analysis by providing a set of intuitive tools to tag, review and edit the most important plays of the game.

It allows to group plays by categories and adjust their the boundaries (lead and lag time) through a timeline.

It also has support for playlists, an easy way to create presentations with plays from different games and provides a video editor to render new videos with your favourite ones.

Even if it is primary focused to sports, LongoMatch can be used for any task that requires tagging and reviewing segments of a video file, and can be applied to fields like cinema, medics or conferences.

LongoMatch is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it.

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Adjust each play frame by frame for a perfect synchronisation


Tag plays in different categories and review them with a single click Manage all your projects with an intuitive interface

Create projects based on customizable templates for any kind of sports Create your own teams templates

Create your own templates using an illimited number of categories

Follow each player in detail Use the playlist to group your favorite plays an render them into new clips

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Abuse-SDL is a port of Abuse to Linux using the Simple DirectMedia Layer library.

2011-05-29T10:21:00.000-07:00

Abuse-SDL is a port of Abuse to Linux using the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. This allows Abuse to run at screen depths greater than 8bpp as well as fullscreen.

Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful lighting, realistic animation and nasty alien-like creatures to destroy. It is now maintained by Sam Hocevar in an attempt to prevent it from vanishing from the Internet.
Since Abuse's public domain release in 1997, the following improvements were made:

    * video output uses the SDL library, with optional OpenGL rendering
    * 64-bit platforms support
    * lots of crashes, memory leaks and general bugs fixed
    * abuse-lib, abuse-frabs and abuse-data were merged into one big dataset
    * easier edition of data files using abuse-tool

See all the documentation.
There is also an artwork page and a collection of screenshots.

News.

May 9th, 2011: Abuse 0.8 is out!

There is no precise roadmap yet. See the development page for information about development and the timeline to see what’s going on right now.
My current plans are:

get network play to work again
merge back the CTF code that was developed for Abuse Win32
create free (as in speech) sound effects (my previous attempts at getting Bobby Prince to put them in the public domain didn’t get far)

I have no plans for 3D effects, a new game engine or complete rewrites. That would be an entirely separate project and I know I don’t have enough energy to lead such a project. But if you do, let me know, I’m willing to help.

Requirements:

· Glibc
· SDL
· A set of datafiles : Registered Abuse, Shareware Abuse, or fRaBs (Free Abuse).

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Counter-Strike 2D offers many additional items, game modes and features which do not exist in the original Counter-Strike.

2011-04-28T11:04:00.000-07:00

The initial idea of Counter-Strike 2D was to create a game which is pretty much like the original Counter-Strike game by Valve Software but which is 2D in a top-down persepective.

This goal has been reached by implementing all original Counter-Strike weapons with their original sounds, by adding the well known hostage rescue (CS) and bomb defuse (DE) scenarios (+the VIP (AS) mode which has been removed from the original Counter-Strike already) and finally by creating 2D versions of the most popular Counter-Strike maps.

Everyone can download and play Counter-Strike 2D for free within a few minutes! You do not have to own any Valve game and you do not need to have Steam! Great fun, easy and fast access!

Counter-Strike 2D offers many additional items, game modes and features which do not exist in the original Counter-Strike. So it is actually much more than just a 2D version of Counter-Strike! When you start a game you can choose to make it a normal CS-like game or you can select another game mode like Construction, Zombies or Deathmatch! Crazy weapons like the portal gun, an airstrike, lasers, RPGs, grenade launchers and many more are included! Furthermore there is a very easy to use but yet powerful map editor which allows you to create your own maps. Therefore there are countless CS2D maps available on the internet! Still not enough? Write Lua scripts to extend and modify the game or use the existing scripts!

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Features.

General

    * Fast paced and tactical gaming similar to Counter-Strike
    * Chat & original Counter-Strike radio messages
    * Fog of war only lets you see enemies in your field of view (optional)
    * Bots (AI) available for on- and offline gaming (Lua scripted)

Multiplayer

    * Serverlist with sorting, filters, Internet servers, LAN servers and favorites
    * Friends system and authentication (U.S.G.N.)
    * Listen servers (win, linux, mac) and dedicated servers (win, linux)
    * Spraylogo-, map- and filetransfer
    * RCon (remote control) for servers
    * Voting, kicking, banning, mapcycles and many settings
    * Server player ranking and stats (in-game and as HTML output)

Game Modes

    * Standard (normal Counter-Strike)
    * Deathmatch
    * Team Deathmatch
    * Construction
    * Zombies!

Map Types With Special Goals

    * DE: bomb defuse (Standard)
    * CS: hostage rescue (Standard)
    * AS: VIP assassination (Standard)
    * CTF: capture the flag (Team Deathmatch / Construction)
    * DOM: domination (Team Deathmatch / Construction)

Weapons & Items

    * ALL original Counter-Strike weapons, including the tactical shield, using original sounds
    * Different armors (including a medic armor and a stealth armor)
    * Medikits & bandages
    * Money items
    * Close combat: machete, wrench, claw, chainsaw
    * Special "grenades": flare, molotov cocktail, gas grenade, airstrike, snowball
    * Launchers: RPG launcher, rocket launcher, grenade launcher
    * Mines: mines, laser mines
    * And more: flamethrower, laser, portal gun, ...

Create & Extend

    * Sounds and graphics can be replaced
    * Create and use your own spraylogos
    * Easy to use map editor
    * Entity & trigger system
    * Server-sided Lua script system allows to modify and extend the gameplay
    * Console & buy scripts like the original Counter-Strike

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DXX-Rebirth is a remake of the two DESCENT ports D1X and D2X.

2011-03-13T06:47:00.000-07:00

This project is dedicated to two of the most impressive First-Person Shooters of the nineties:

DXX-Rebirth is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines for Windows, Mac OS, Linux (most *NIX systems), offering OpenGL graphics and effects, advanced Multiplayer, many improvements and new features.

Descent and Descent 2 are pretty old games so you usually run into problems running it on more recent Hardware and Operating Systems. DXX-Rebirth will also take care about this for you.

It’s Open Source, it’s Multiplatform!

Still DXX-Rebirth is no clone. Our Philosophy is to bring these games to the new millenium, keep ‘em alive – reborn. It’s our desire to maintain the original Feeling and Gameplay we all love so much.
In short: If you love these games and if you want to play them, you came to the right place.
If you want to know more, read about the Project Details and its Features or start right away and Download now!

Features:

Plays Descent and Descent 2 and all their AddOns and third-party levels.
DXX-Rebirth runs on your favourite Operating System. We officially support Linux (and other *NIX), Mac OS (9/X) and Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7). Still the code can be compiled on many other systems as well.
OpenGL effects comparison (click to enlarge)
OpenGL provides a fast and smooth rendering – even on low-end systems. Optionally you can toggle several effects like Transparency, Texture Filtering, FSAA, etc.
Thanks to SDL, a wide palette of Joysticks are supported. Also you can use more Joysticks, buttons and axes than you can ever operate in your state of evolution.
If you prefer steering your Pyro with a mouse, you will not have the problem that the movement becomes slow in high game speed.
Joystick, Keyboard and Mouse can be used simultaneously.
The games can display all resolutions and aspects supported by your Monitor, including an option for VSync.
Besides MIDI and CD-Audio (Redbook), you can play your own custom Music from your Harddrive or a separate AddOns.
Both games can utilize special AddOn packs to replace or expand the original game content.
Multiplayer via UDP protocol provides a fast and easy-to-use LAN and Online action. This includes reliable communication causing less glitches due to lost packages.
Multiplayer via IPX protocol lets you play against players still using the MS-DOS version of the game.
The ingame Demo-recording system has been improved. Demos are less glitchy and smaller while still still being backwards-compatible to earlier versions of the games.
Higher game speed will not cause glitches such as unacceptable fast homing projectiles, incredible high damage caused by several collisions or Fusion cannon, etc.
Player files, Savegames, Demos and Missions from DOS-Versions of the games can freely be used in DXX-Rebirth and vice versa.
Even more …

The game called DESCENT.
Descent is a 3D first person shooter that takes place in the distant future. The PTMC (Post Terran Mining Corporation) owns a lot of mines, spread all over planets in our solar system. Somehow all the mining robots become infected with a computer virus and took the human workers hostage. Your job is to infiltrate the mines, clean out the robots, rescue any hostages you find, and lastly destroy the infected mines by destroying its reactor. You control a small anti-grav vessel called a Pyro-GX, your only hope in this metallic nightmare.
Descent was developed back in 1995 by Parallax Software and published by Interplay. It was a milestone in computer-gaming because it was the first game to truly take advantage of all three dimensions in the virtual space and had enemies that were not simple 2D sprites, as in Doom, but real 3D polygon models.

The sequel.
In 1996 Interplay released the second part of the successful saga. Developed by Parallax again, Descent 2 was one of best games in that year.
This time, your job is it to clean up the PTMC deep space mines outside the solar system. There the player encountered over 30 new, deadly robots in 30 new mines with new textures. The Gameplay was the same as known from Descent because it uses the same engine.
As the game is already a real old-timer, it has – like Descent, too – a huge and strong community full of fans who love the saga and still play it as on the first day.

The Source.
1997 and 1998 the Source code of Descent and Descent 2 was released by PARALLAX under the flag of a non-commercial Open Source license. As a result, LDescent, D1X (Descent 1 eXtended) and D2X (Descent 2 eXtended) were developed. These initially introduced sound output via SDL, OpenGL rendering, UDP for Multiplayer and many overall improvements to the original games.
However the development of LDescent stopped when D1X came out and D1X itself fell asleep some day and D2X followed later on.
But it’s the nature of Open Source that the torch will be passed and never be extinguished…

The Rebirth.
In September 2005 I started the write some small installer scripts for some older Linux binaries of the latest versions of D1X and D2X. Pretty fast I noticed that with the Source I had more possibilities I could ever imagined.
As Linux-user and enthusiast of the Open Source-movement it was only a logical step the provide my work to everyone loving Descent and Descent 2 as much as I do.
I had no experience about programming but I had the “my way or the highway”-attitude. So I learned and in January 2006 I provided my very own binaries of D1X and D2X for Linux and Windows.
While not having it’s own features or improvements, I now had my own ports of the games:
D1X-Rebirth – for Descent
D2X-Rebirth – for Descent 2
Together they form the DXX-Rebirth project.

The Evolution.
As time went by, I worked a lot on DXX-Rebirth and a lot changed. While still maintaining my own Philosophy about the original Feeling of the games, I introduced new features, fixed old glitches and little annoyances and as well cleaned up a lot of the old code. Some helping hands joined the team and enrich DXX-Rebirth with their own skills and ideas.
And this process still goes on – it always will – since finished Software is dead Software. The world of IT is a fast-paced and we keep the project on track.

The Technology.
To support a lot of Hardware and maintaining a portable code base, a lot needs to be done.
Therefor, we use the the full potential of Open Source to provide a reliable and stable piece of Software.

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EDuke32 is an awesome, free homebrew game engine and source port of the classic PC first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D— Duke3D.

2011-02-06T03:26:00.000-08:00

EDuke32 is an awesome, free homebrew game engine and source port of the classic PC first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D— Duke3D for short—to Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, several handhelds, and to your family toaster.

We've added all kinds of new renderers, tons of cool features and upgrades for regular players, and thousands of additional editing capabilities and scripting extensions for mod creators. EDuke32 is completely free, open source software.
First brewed in August 2004 by Duke community leader Richard "TerminX" Gobeille—joined in 2005 by NVIDIA software engineer Pierre-Loup "Plagman" Griffais—and incorporating work by 3D Realms/Ken Silverman/Jonathon Fowler/Matt Saettler, what started as a learning experience and an excuse to learn C soon rose from obscurity to become pretty much the best Duke Nukem 3D port ever. We think you'll agree.

EDuke32 screams bad-ass so loud, you'll think Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson got uppercut in the balls by Freddy Krueger. We acknowledge that that is possibly the most ridiculous statement ever made, by us or anyone else—and we don't care!
You even get Mapster32, a hacked up and enhanced version of that good ol' BUILD editor you remember fruitlessly trying to make maps with way back in college—when you were sober enough to see the monitor, that is. Yee-haw!
EDuke32 is licensed under the GNU GPL and the BUILD license.

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Fight Win Prevail (or FWP for short) is a hobbyist multiplayer first person shooter.

2010-12-23T11:51:00.000-08:00

Fight Win Prevail (or FWP for short) is a hobbyist multiplayer first person shooter.

Fight Win Prevail is set in an imaginary universe where fearless pilots fight to the death with their futuristic vehicles.

Gameplay lies somewhere between the Mechwarrior-series and Quake 3.

It is faster and more action-orientated than in Mechwarrior, but tries to avoid the jump-around-like-crazy-and-fire-at-everything-that-moves-gameplay known from Quake 3.

Fight Win Prevail is a pure multiplayer game and does not have a real singleplayer mode. Our primary target are LANs, but the game is playable over the internet, too.. The official fight win prevail website.

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The Freedoom project aims to create a complete Doom-based game which is free software.

2010-12-12T08:29:00.000-08:00

id Software has released the source code to their classic game, Doom, under the GNU General Public License.

This means that the engine which powers Doom is Free Software. However, the game engine is only one component of a complete game.

The Doom engine uses an "IWAD" file to store all of its game data. This contains the raw data used by the game — the artwork, sound effects, levels, everything which defines Doom as a game. Until now, one of the original proprietary files was still needed in order to play Doom.

The Freedoom project aims at collaboratively creating a free IWAD file. Combined with the free source code, this results in a complete game based on the Doom engine which is Free Software.

Doom source code + Freedoom IWAD
The purpose of Freedoom

Freedoom has multiple purposes:

1. To create a complete free game based on the Doom engine.
A large library exists of modifications which have been created for Doom over the past fifteen years; Freedoom maintains compatibility with the original IWAD files so that these modifications can be played.

2. To create a pool of free game material for people to reuse in their own projects.
All material in the Freedoom project is released under the modified BSD license, allowing people to reuse it as they wish. Freedoom contains a large collection of material. This includes Doom levels, sound effects, graphics, and music.

3. To serve as a demonstration of the talent and creativity of the Doom community.
Despite its age, Doom has retained a surprisingly large community of fans. Freedoom is developed collaboratively by fans of the original Doom games.

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Hell World is a FPS adventure game which features excellent graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario.

2010-11-25T14:04:00.000-08:00

Hell World is a thrilling FPS adventure game which features excellent graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario. Hell World game is designed to be a port of the Windows-only version of Hell World.

It is written using the openGL and SDL library and is developing for the last months by ironhell3.

The game starts from main.c There we call first two functions, sdl_init() and game_init() to initialise the sdl and game part of the game.After the succesfull initialisation of Hell World we loop in a while() function.Each frame we check the keyboard and mouse for events through keyhandler() and then render the game frames through loop().When we catch a done=true signal we quit the game.

Important:

1)We are in need of developers,musicians,artists etc to help develop this game
2)This game is released under the GPL license.Please READ the COPYING file for more info

What's New in This Release:

· Fixed movement
· Added fog
· Added crates
· Redesign of level 1 including texture changes

Downloads

Old but stable windows-only release
HellWorldv0.1alpha11.zip670 Kb
New but VERY unstable cross-platform release
HellWorld-0.1.4.tar.bz2200 Kb

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B3D/SDL is a port of Ken's Labyrinth to modern operating systems, using OpenGL for graphics output.

2010-11-18T12:45:00.000-08:00

B3D/SDL is a port of Ken's Labyrinth to modern operating systems, using OpenGL for graphics output and the SDL library to provide user input, sound output, threading, and some graphics support functions. Music output is through Adlib emulation or MIDI (MIDI only on Linux and other operating systems with OSS-compatible sound APIs).
As this program is provided for free, neither Ken Silverman nor Jan Lönnberg take any responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, resulting from the use of this program.
Current version: 2.32 (11/10/2004).
Improvements over the original Ken's Labyrinth:

Runs natively on 32-bit Windows or Linux (and possibly some similar systems).
Uses OpenGL to provide hardware accelerated, anti-aliased graphics with trilinear interpolation in true colour (where available).
Multiple simultaneous sound effects.
Improved General MIDI music.
Many bug fixes.

Changes...

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Download an all-in-one package or follow the below instructions:

Make sure that you have SDL (version 1.2 or later) installed.
Download and install the full version of Ken's Labyrinth 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 or 2.1.
One of the following:
- Download the source code, compile and install.
- Download a precompiled binary and install.

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You need a lot of practice to defeat pirates like this guy. Especially in large groups.

Yes, our Beowulf cluster of fans will keep you nice and cool...

Money, money, money!

The infamous Ken.

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LTKTBM, fast paced, single and multiplayer action built on the all time

2010-10-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

LTKTBM, fast paced, single and multiplayer action built on the all time, original, classic mod:- Action Quake 2. into a heavly enhanced engine with superiour sound and Graphics, whilst still maintaining compatibility with both the hundreds of AQ2 servers and the origonal, giving you easy access to online play with people close to you.

The FULL install does not require any previous installation of either Quake 2 or AQ2 and adds many gameplay and graphical enhancements to the quake 2 engine.

If you just want to see what its all about you can download the small installer AQ2 LTKTBM Lite v1.9.0.25 wieghing in at just 13MB

You can now download the full installer here

Take a dose of classic quake 2, fill it with game play from one of the best all time classic mods, AQ2. Whisk up a large cup of gore and toast with some new graphics and sound, and you know you've got the start of something special.

Once thoroughly cooked, gently stir in the power of ltktbm to bring a taste of single player, and provide some much needed character assassination, put in a single, hugely expandable package, that anyone and everyone has access to and you've successfully whipped up AQ2 LTKTBM Edition: Codename: THE EXTRAS (simply LTKTBM).

All this, in combination with the proven playability of multiplayer AQ2, stability of the Quake2 engine and versitility and shear number of aq2 maps.

LTKTBM provides 3 levels of game play, which are all as different as they are similar'
Firstly, simple deathmatch; everyone for themselves, kill as quickly and as frequently as possible, and take pride in getting your name at the top of the scoreboard'
Secondly, Teamplay; Group carnage to the extreme, the fast paced, wipe them out first game type that AQ2 made famous' Simply select your side and armoury and let the killing commence' Group performance is the goal here, but individual performance still plays a large part'
Thirdly, new with LTKTBM, Movie script; difficult to describe as an individual game type, Movie script is more like teamplay+, providing variability and script twists galore' Movie script provides a more organised teamplay type utilising LTKTBM’s AI to provide ‘all action’ characters to interact with in a group basis, where each ‘gametype’ is as individual as the level itself'

LTKTBM also adds some extra abilities to your AQ2 arsenal:
The spotlight: Gone are the days when dark multiplayer maps are more of a nightmare than atmospheric, the spotlight not only allows you to find your way in the dark, but can also be a valuable method of communicating with your team' The spotlight comes automatically attached to the MP5, M3 assault shotgun, and M4 assault weapons

The sword: Enter the realms of the true elite with this powerful hand to hand combat weapon' Deflect enemies shots and cut the down to size before kicking them to their death' The sword comes as a weapon choice in teamplay/movie script, or as a default secondary weapon in deathmatch'

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nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter.

2010-09-23T06:21:00.000-07:00

The aim is to shoot down as many 'drones' as you can in the arena you play in.

If the number or living drones exceeds 10, you lose.

The drones appear at random places at regular intervals. Colliding with a drone also ends your life.

The arena is enclosed by walls and you start at its center. You have got limited number of bullets to kill the drones. You can replenish your ammo by picking up ammo packets that appear as yellow spheres with stripes.

The bottom of the screen shows you the game statistics.

Keys.

Player movement
Forward	Up arrow
Back	Down arrow
Left	Left arrow
Right	Right arrow
Run	Left Shift
Actions
Fire missile	Spacebar
Toggle game stats display	Tab
Toggle map display	m
In-game menu	Escape

Configuration.

The game expects a config file named .nmaFPS in the users home directory. If that file doesnt exist, it uses a system-wide config file located in '/usr/local/share/nmaFPS/conf'. Currently, the following options are supported.

Option name	Description	Allowed values
WINHEIGHT	Window height	Numeric values.
WINWIDTH	Window width	Numeric values.
FULLSCREEN	To go fullscreen or not	1 or 0
STARTLEVEL	The level to start with.	Number
TEXTUREDIR	Name of texture images directory	String
SOUND	Enable sound.	1 or 0
DIFFICULTY	Difficulty setting	1 : Hard, 2 : Normal, 3 : Easy

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ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source code.

2010-08-23T03:20:00.000-07:00

ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source code to Win32. As such, it not only works with (and requires) Windows 95/NT 4.0, but it also adds new features not found in the version published by id Software.

ZDoom may be used and distributed free of charge. No profit may be made from the sale of it.

ZDoom was created by Randy Heit using id Software's and various others' sources.

ZDoom is, essentially, an advanced source port for Doom. However, it doesn't just support Doom/Doom II... it also has support for Hexen, Heretic, and Strife.

This new and easy to use tool will allow you to create new maps with great ease You can also add elements of detail to your levels, such as slopes, mirrors, 3-D bridges (sort of), colored lighting, deep-water, translucent glass, print messages, and many others.

ZDoom also has the ability to use free mouse-look. Other various options in the options menu allow for toggling the ability to jump, falling damage, allowing the silent BFG trick, crosshairs, and much more.

ZDoom supports the ability to use any graphics lumps in a wad as a texture or flat. You're also able to make your own custom enemies via DECORATE (without the use of DeHackEd).You are even able to make custom weapons (also without DeHackEd). Furthermore, ZDoom has full DeHackEd support, so you can customize already existing weapons (currently, "new" weapons must be added via KEYCONF).

Why would I want to use ZDoom instead of regular Doom?
Consider all these features that ZDoom has that are not found in the standard Doom originally released by id:

It runs well under all modern versions of Windows, from Windows 95 to the new Windows Vista. If you have Linux, it works with that too.
Can play all Doom engine games, including Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife.
Supports all the editing features of Hexen. (ACS, hubs, new map format, etc.)
Supports most of the BOOM editing features.
Many more all-new editing features such as:
- Colored sector lighting.
- Custom monsters, weapons, and items.
- High resolution textures.
- Many, many extensions to ACS that were not present in Hexen.
- More music formats: Ogg Vorbis, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, MIDI, and MP3 as well as old-fashioned MUS all work.
- More sound formats: FLAC and WAVE can both be used for sound effects.
- More texture formats: PNG and JPEG are both useable for artwork.
The vast majority of Doom limits are gone.
An OPL softsynth is provided that can play the standard MUS music for an authentic "oldschool" flavor.
Free look (look up/down).
High resolutions.
Translucency (regular and additive).
A console.
Full-featured joystick/gamepad support under Windows.
Up to 8 player network games using UDP/IP, including team-based gameplay.
Support for the Bloodbath announcer from the classic Monolith game Blood.
Quake-style key bindings.
Jumping.
Crosshairs.
Walk over/under monsters and other things.

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U-Hexen is another free and open source port of Hexen game.

2010-08-23T02:20:00.000-07:00

Free and open source port of Hexen game.

U-Hexen is another port of Hexen game of Raven Software and Id Software to Simple Directmedia Layer library (SDL). U-Hexen works on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows platforms

Main features.

- Plays digital music via DSP device using SDL_mixers timidity library (requires instrument patches, download here);
- Uses hardware acceleration (2D only), if it detected by SDL;
- Some new menus added for easier configuration;
- Uses FreeBSD syscons driver (if invoked from ttyvX and SDL fails to initialize graphics);
- "Turbo mouse" mode to correct mouse sensitivity on different platfotms.

U-Hexen is yet another port of Hexen game of Raven Software and Id Software to Simple Directmedia Layer library (SDL). It works on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows platforms.

The latest snapshot is available here.

The latest windows version is available here.

To play you also need resource file (hexen.wad) you can download it here (this is demo version distributed by Raven Software).

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Open Arena Fortress is a mod for Open Arena that adds customizable player classes.

2010-08-14T12:44:00.001-07:00

Open Arena Fortress is a mod for Open Arena that adds customizable player classes. You can choose from familiar preset classes, such as "soldier" or "sniper," or create your own by choosing your starting weapons and armor class.

Current Version: Beta 1

The only real change in this release is it is compiled against the new 0.8.1 sources.

Changes from Alpha 3:

* Compiled against Open Arena 0.8.1 sources.

Changes from Alpha 2:

* Player load-out has been moved to persistant data. Player shouldn't spawn "naked" anymore. (Thanks Sago, for help with debugging)
* Choosing no primary or secondary weapon works now.

Changes from Alpha 1:

* Chaingun and Nailgun added to Primary Weapons menu. (Thanks Megagun)

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Openfrag is a GPL medieval-themed open-source FPS currently in development written in C++ and Lua.

2010-08-09T04:39:00.001-07:00

OpenFrag is an Open Source, multi-platform game. It plays in a medieval environment where Orcs and Humans fight to the death in a multiplayer session.

Openfrag is a GPL medieval-themed open-source FPS currently in development written in C++ and Lua.

The latest version of the game is the Demo 0.5 released on May 20th, 2008.

Several Openfrag developers, and the Openfrag leader, have announced that they would be leaving the Openfrag project, however, the leader of the Bullets Project has said that the latter would like to continue the Openfrag Project.

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PoopmUp is an open source arcade-style 3D flight simulator.

2010-08-09T04:04:00.001-07:00

PoopmUp is an Open Source arcade-style 3D urban flight simulator. It is written in C++ using OpenGL.

We originally used GLUT as an upper layer, but recently moved to Simple DirectMedia Layer as it is easier to install for an end user and it is a more powerful tool to create user interfaces.

Right now the website is in its beta version. Most of its functionalities are still in developement.

As a child, you where tortured in the playground. You where a victim of the highschool hirarchy. You hacked hours on end, and built a machine that transformed you into a bird.

You are now free (as in speech) to fly around the city and poop on passers-by. It's time to get revenge! It's time to Poop'm'Up.

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Postal 2, both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping.

2010-08-01T10:04:00.000-07:00
Postal 2 (styled as Postal²) is a first-person shooter video game by Running with Scissors, and it is the sequel to the 1997 game Postal. Both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping.

Unlike its predecessor, Postal 2 is played completely in first-person based on the Unreal Graphics Engine. Due to its graphic nature the game has been banned in Australia and several other places.

The player takes on the role of 'The Postal Dude' (all evidence given in-game indicates that the character's full legal name actually is "The Postal Dude, Jr.": his father's tombstone reads "T. Dude Sr."; characters constantly call him "Mr. The Dude" and a package for him is addressed to "P. Dude"), a tall thin man with a goatee, sunglasses, a blue alien t-shirt, and a long black leather coat. The Postal Dude also wears a Happy Smiley pin on his right lapel and a cross pin on his left one. 'The Postal Dude' lives in a trailer park with his nagging wife (only identified in the credits as 'Postal Dude's Bitch') in the town of Paradise, Arizona.

The game levels are split into days of the week starting Monday and finishing Friday. At the beginning of each day, Dude is given several tasks to accomplish, such as 'Get milk', 'Confess sins', and other seemingly mundane tasks. The purpose of the game is to finish all of the tasks throughout the week, and the player can accomplish these tasks in any way he wishes, be it as civilly or as chaotically as possible (it is possible, if occasionally difficult, to complete most tasks without engaging in battle, or, at least, killing other people). The daily tasks can be accomplished in any order, and the game includes one task that is only activated on a certain day if Dude performs a certain action.

Dude must put up with being flipped the bird, mugged, attacked by protesters, put upon by an obnoxious convenience store owner/terrorist and his patrons who cut before Dude in the "money-line", plus a marching band, a murderous toy mascot named Krotchy, the police and SWAT team, the ATF and the National Guard, a religious cult, savage butchers, psycho Al-Qaeda terrorists, and Gary Coleman, among many other things.

One of the major concepts of Postal 2 is that it is meant to be a "living world", a simulation of a tongue-in-cheek off-kilter town. Game characters live out their lives completely separate from the actions of Dude; walking around town, buying and selling merchandise, and even engaging in random shootouts with each other and the police.

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Minimum Requirements :

Operating System 2.2.x or better Linux kernel with glibc-2.1 or later and X-Windows (XFree86 3.3.x or later)
Processor 1.0 GHz x86 Processor
Memory 128 MB
Disc Space 1.4 GB
CD Rom 8 x CD Rom
Graphics Card Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics card with 64 MB video memory
Sound Card OSS Compatible

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PrBoom is a version of the classic fps game Doom.

2010-07-24T09:00:00.000-07:00
PrBoom is a version of the classic fps game Doom by id Software. Specifically, it's an engine for playing Doom levels, based on the source code released by id Software. It aims to be free, reliable, portable, and support a wide range of levels.

PrBoom is the culmination of years of work by various people and projects on the Doom source code. PrBoom includes work from all of the following projects:

Original Doom source release Without id Software releasing the source code to Doom in the first place, we couldn't be here. And one mustn't forget Bernd Kreimeier who prepared the source for release.

DosDoom The first serious Doom port, got things working enough for other projects to spawn from it. Also continued to provide a lot of innovative ideas for other ports.

Boom This project gave a complete overhaul to the Doom engine, one it badly needed. All of Doom's infamous bugs and limitations were fixed. Many new features which fitted nicely into the engine were added, including a better line types system, translucency, friction and wind types, and much more.

PrBoom Brought Boom to Windows, and made large improvements to the graphics: first higher resolutions, later OpenGL rendering.

MBF This continuation of the Boom project, by Lee Killough, did huge amounts of debugging and other improvements, as well as adding more natural features in the way that Boom had done. There were also some special features like Doom beta emulation, and friendly monsters.

LxDoom Initially just a Linux port of Boom, it went on to become a portable POSIX Doom port, with further compatibility improvements and debugging.

lSDLDoom This port of LxDoom to SDL brought the Windows and Linux development back together. It just makes you wish we'd had SDL when the Doom source first came out :-\.

Of course ideas were exchanged with many other Doom ports, including xdoom, and Eternity.
Game engine.

Player bobbing improved, optional (BOOM, MBF)
Friction effects (BOOM), affecting players and monsters (MBF)
Wind, current, conveyor effects (BOOM)
Far more flexible scrolling wall/floor types (BOOM)
Always run (BOOM)
Weapon change logic overhauled and improved (BOOM)
Support for friendly monsters, helper dogs (MBF)
Monster target finding code improved (MBF)
AI improvements (MBF)
Bouncy and touchy things (MBF)
New code pointers (MBF)
Per-level and animated skies (MBF)
Generalised line types system gives complete flexibility (BOOM)
Elevators (BOOM)
Translucent sprites, walls (BOOM)
Independent floor and ceiling lighting (BOOM)
Silent teleports (BOOM)
Deep water, true underwater areas (BOOM)
Icon of Sin telefragging made more consistent (MBF)
Fix large numbers of game bugs (BOOM, MBF, LxDoom)
Support arbitrary texture heights (BOOM)
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Quake III Arena Cell Shading, modification for Quake III Arena which makes the game look like a painting or cartoon.

2010-07-06T00:23:00.001-07:00

Quake III Arena Cell Shading is a modification for Quake III Arena which makes the game look like a painting or cartoon. Two techniques are used. The default one (Kuwahara filtering) simplifies the texture a bit, and the second one removes the texture, so it looks plain.

The goal of this project is to add Cell Shading capabilities to the Quake III engine with Real-time performance.

In order to provide such feature we have decided to use Kuwahara filter. Kuwahara filter is a noise-reduction filter that preserves edges.

It uses four subquadrants to calculate the mean and variance and chooses the mean value for the region with the smallest variance.

To increase the hand-painted effect we have decided to apply a simple blur filter to reduce hard-edges on textures and increase the flatness effect.

To produce the cell shading effect we use no graphics card shaders, so our implementation could run with almost any gfx card. The edge effect is produced by painting backface polygons with a thick wireframe without textures and repaint all the scene, but this time, with textures.

We have also implemented a different algorithm (we call it White Texture) , which uses white textures. It looks like this and this, you can set the console variable r_celshadalgo to 2, and load another map, or run using the appropiate link that came with the release.

To test our modified engine just place our binary in your game's folder to frag all day long!

Ensure you have a copy of Quake 3 Arena installed on your PC. You're going to need the artwork/content from the game because it is not redistributable.

Lastest version.
Version 1.0 sports a new alternative cell shading algorithm (white texture) and a lot of bug fixes. See the change list and screenshots, or download it. It's recommended that you enable antialiasing, and by the way, Windows users should download the MSI package and uninstall the previous version.

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Allegro is a portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming.

2010-06-22T00:05:00.001-07:00

Allegro is a portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming, originally started by Shawn Hargreaves for the DJGPP compiler in a mixture of C and assembler.

Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely, supporting the following platforms: Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Windows, MacOS X and Haiku/BeOS. Older versions also support DOS and QNX.

It provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse and joystick) and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3d functions, file management functions, compressed datafile and a GUI. Read more details on the introductory page.

According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Allegro is the Italian for «quick, lively, bright». It is also a recursive acronym which stands for «Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines».

Graphic functions.

* Vector drawing:
o pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, arcs, Bezier splines
o shape fill, with or without pattern
o polygons: flat, Gouraud, textured (3D) and translucent
* Sprites:
o masked, compressed and compiled sprites
o blitting, rotation, stretching, reduction, alpha blending, Gouraud shading
o native support for BMP, LBM, PCX and TGA files (others supported with library extensions)
* Color palettes:
o color palette manipulation (reading, writing, conversion)
o conversion of color formats RGB <-> HSV
* Text:
o support for different encodings and conversion, default is UTF-8
o bitmap fonts (masking, colouring, alignment)
* Misc:
o draw directly on the screen or on any-size memory bitmaps
o hardware scrolling and triple buffering (where available), mode-X split screen
o animation functions for FLI/FLC format

Graphic drivers.

* Unix:
o X Window, DGA, fbcon
o SVGAlib
* Windows:
o DirectX (windowed or full-screen)
o GDI
* MacOS X:
o Quartz (windowed or full-screen)
* Haiku/BeOS:
o BWindowScreen
o BDirectWindow
* OpenGL:
o The AllegroGL addon allows to use OpenGL graphics with Allegro.

The older 4.2 branch also supports:

* Unix:
o VBE/AF
o mode-X
o VGA
* DOS:
o VGA 13h mode
o mode-X (23 VGA resolution plus unchained 640x400 extended mode)
o SVGA modes in 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel
o linear VBE 2.0 framebuffer access
o hardware acceleration through VBE/AF API if supported
o additional graphic drivers through FreeBE/AF project

Sound functions.

* Midi:
o native MIDI music format support (with 64 simultaneous effects)
o dynamic control/response to music note on, note off, main volume, pan, pitch bend, and program change
o uses General MIDI patches
o you can read in wavetable patches for MIDI files (SF2 and GUS patches)
* Wave:
o native support of WAV and VOC file formats (playing looped forward, backwards or bidirectional)
o streaming audio
o modify volume, pan, pitch, etc during play

Sound drivers.

* Unix:
o OSS
o ALSA
o JACK
o SGI AL
* Windows:
o DirectSound
o WaveOut
o MIDI system drivers
* MacOS X:
o Core Audio
o Sound Manager
o Core Audio MIDI
o QuickTime MIDI

The older 4.2 branch also supports:

* Unix:
o ESD
o aRts
* DOS:
o Adlib, SB, SB Pro, SB16, AWE32
o MPU-401
o ESS AudioDrive
o Ensoniq Soundscape
o Windows Sound System

Math functions

* fixed point arithmetic and trigonometric routines
* precalculated trigonometric tables
* vector/matrix/quaternions 3d manipulation (translation, rotation, scaling, projection)

Misc.

* mouse, keyboard and joystick management
* high resolution interrupt timers (resolution of 10, 5 or less ms depending on platform)
* vertical retrace simulation
* manipulate configuration files
* manipulate compressed files in LZSS format
* manipulate multi-object resource-like compressed datafiles
* tool for creating datafiles (grabber)
* simple GUI for dialogs and file selector

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Quake III Arena was specifically designed for multiplayer.

2010-06-18T01:12:00.000-07:00
Quake III Arena is a multiplayer first-person shooter computer and video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly.

Quake III Arena is the third in the series and differs from previous games by excluding a traditional single-player element and focusing on multi-player action. The single-player is instead played against computer controlled bots in a similar style to Unreal Tournament.

Notable features of Quake 3 include the minimalist design, lacking rarely used items and features, the extensive customizability of player settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model, and advanced movement features such as strafe and rocket-jumping.

Quake 3 is available on a number of platforms and contains mature content. The game was highly praised by reviewers who, for the most part, described the gameplay as fun and engaging. Many liked the crisp graphics and focus on multiplayer. The game engine has been heavily modified.

Quake 3 has also been used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments such as Quakecon, Cyberathlete Professional League and the Electronic Sports World Cup.

Quake III Arena features an advanced AI with five difficulty levels which can accommodate both a beginner and an advanced player, though they usually do not pose a challenge to high-tier or competitive players.

Quake III Arena's multiplayer-focused development led to it developing a large community of competitive players and like its predecessors it was used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments.

In competitive Quake III Arena there are two distinct gameplays, often referred to as 'rulesets', the out-of-the-box Quake III Arena game, also known as vanilla Quake 3 (VQ3), and the CPM ruleset of the Challenge Pro Mode Arena mod.

Each bot has its own, often humorous, 'personality', expressed as scripted lines that are triggered to simulate real player chat. If the player were to type certain phrases the bots may respond, typing "You bore me" might cause one of the bots to reply "You should have been here 3 hours ago!". Each bot has a number of alternative lines to reduce the repetition of bot chatter.

The Gladiator bots from Quake II were ported to Quake III and incorporated into the game by its creator - Jean Paul van Waveren, aka Mr. Elusive. Bot chat lines were written by R. A. Salvatore, Seven Swords and Steve Winter. Xaero, the hardest opponent in the game, was based on the Gladiator bot Zero.[citation needed] The bot Hunter appears on magazine covers in the later id game Doom 3.

The following competitions have held Quake 3 events:

Cyberathlete Amateur League
Cyberathlete Professional League
Electronic Sports World Cup
QuakeCon
World Cyber Games

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QuakeWorld is an Internet multi-player specific version of Quake.

2010-06-15T23:25:00.001-07:00
QuakeWorld (abbreviated QW) is an update to id Software's seminal multiplayer deathmatch game, Quake, that enhances the game's multiplayer features (namely UDP support) to allow people with dial-up modems to achieve greatly improved responsiveness when playing on Internet game servers.

Modern broadband connections such as cable and DSL can use the QW model of network handling and game physics. Official id Software development stopped with the test release of QuakeWorld 2.33 on December 21, 1998. Latest official stable release was 2.30.

QuakeWorld's most important feature is its rewritten networking code (for client-side player prediction and delta compression). Player prediction allowed QuakeWorld clients to compensate for high latency, thus allowing dialup users to move around in the virtual world without being affected by the disorienting effects of latency. This helped Quake network play reach an additional market, as opposed to those who had LAN or broadband connections at the time.

It did not address what some considered exploits, namely bunny hopping, wall-hugging, and zig-zagging. These bugs have shaped the recent part of QuakeWorld's life, allowing for additional dimensions to playing style, and are now seen as features by much of the community.

QuakeWorld was seminal in popularising deathmatch, and, alongside Ultima Online, internet multiplayer. It is considered even today by many die-hard players to be the best multiplayer game, such that several games featuring QuakeWorld-like gameplay elements have been developed, including the Quake III mod: Challenge ProMode Arena, Painkiller, the freeware game Warsow, a mod for Quake 4 called Quake4World, and a free game called Quake2World based on the Quake 2 engine.

A license to QuakeWorld was given to Valve Software L.L.C. in 1996, which was heavily modified into the GoldSrc engine, which powers Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic (a follow-up to the QuakeWorld mod Team Fortress), and Counter-Strike, among others.

In December 1999, John Carmack of id Software released the server and client source code of Quake and QuakeWorld under the GNU General Public License as a Christmas present to the world, and this spawned a plethora of 21st century updates to this famous game first released in 1996. A few years later John Romero released the map sources under the GNU General Public License in October 2006. Among the popular clients today are FuhQuake, ezQuake, More QuakeWorld, with ezQuake being most popular.

QuakeNet, the largest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, originated in 1997 as a network for QuakeWorld players.

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Quetoo is a Quake 2 compatible game engine optimized for speed.

2010-06-14T13:21:00.000-07:00
Quetoo is a Quake2-compatible game engine for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. It's focus is simplicity, security, stability, and speed. It contains critical security updates for both clients and servers, bandwidth saving network protocol enhancements, an improved console, and some major speed increases. Quetoo is up to 140% faster than stock Quake2.
If you're looking for visual effect updates and gimmick features, or a rich single-player experience, run something else. However, perhaps these things sound good to you:

Dramatic performance increases through proper removal of dynamic lighting, polyblend and other "candy" features.
Integrated video refresh and renderer core simplifies program design and execution.
R1Q2 Protocol 35 support and Quetoo-specific protocol extensions to save bandwidth.
Support for asynchronous video/sound/input and network framing: run at 90fps over a dialup connection.
High color Targa (.tga) image support for all game media.
Location (.loc) file support for alerting team members to your position.
Mono (white) lightmap interpolation mode for neutral (non-colored) lighting.
Bright player skins supported directly within the engine.
Ability to disable ambient sounds and load wildcard pakfiles (*.pak).
Vastly improved console with Bash-style tab completion, positioned editing, mwheel scrolling, etc..
Optional deathmatch mod with MySQL frag logging and team play.
GNU Autoconf/Automake build scripts and pure C source compiles cleanly with modern gcc.
The current stable release is 0.6.1.
Installation:

Quetoo builds with GNU Automake. To build it, do the following:

./configure && sudo make install

Your Quake II game data should reside in $PREFIX/share/quake2. To specify an alternate path, use --datadir=/some/path. A quake2 directory is automatically appended to the path you provide. See ./configure --help for more information.

Running:

Quetoo can be executed from any path. To set your video mode, use vid_width, vid_height, and vid_fullscreen. You must issue vid_restart for your changes to take effect.

vid_width 1024; vid_height 768; vid_fullscreen 1; vid_restart

F11 toggles fullscreen quickly, for switching to other windows.

Mouse cvars are universally prefixed with "m_." So use m_sensitvity, m_invert, and m_filter to adjust your mouse.

To adjust brightness levels, use vid_gamma. You may also play with gl_modulate and gl_intensity, but you must issue gl_reload for these changes to take effect.

To change rail trail color, adjust cl_railtrailcolor. "Tan" and "blue" are recognized strings. Integers from 1-255 are also valid.

Use cl_showfps to view your framerate on screen, and cl_maxfps to cap it.
60 is a good number for LCD monitors, 124 provides optimal physics for jumping. You can also use cl_showspeed to view your player's horizontal velocity, which can be helpful for practicing jumps.

High color Targa (.tga) image support is available for textures, status bar pics, crosshairs, and model skins. You may wish to download our Retexture pak from http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/Retexture.

Location files (.loc) are fully supported, and should reside in your maps directory, alongside their respective .bsp file. e.g. baseq2/maps/q2dm1.loc.
You may create your own .loc files using the addloc and savelocs commands. The tokens $loc_here and $loc_there are expanded in your chat messages to your current location, and the location you're looking at, respectively.

Wildcard Pakfiles (*.pak) are also supported, so you're not limited to pak0-9.pak for your Pakfiles. Meaningful names like retexture.pak and qmass-sounds.pak will help keep your baseq2 folder organized.

There's quite a bit more to this engine. Cvarlist and cmdlist are your friends, so use them. You may also find the CHANGES section of this file interesting.
Download

quetoo-0.6.1.tar.bz2 Tastyspleen.net
quetoo-0.6.1.tar.bz2 Local Mirror
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Serious Sam is the title of a series of first-person shooters created by the Croatian development team Croteam.

2010-06-09T07:32:00.000-07:00
Serious Sam is the title of a series of first-person shooters created by the Croatian development team Croteam. Originally released for the PC market only, Serious Sam's rising popularity resulted in the porting of the series to a number of different platforms, including the Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2 and Xbox Live Arcade among others.

The series follows the adventures of hero Sam "Serious" Stone and his fight against the forces of the notorious extraterrestrial overlord Mental who seeks to destroy humanity.

The series' gameplay could be seen as a bit of a throwback to earlier first-person shooters. Released during a time where shooters were becoming increasingly realistic and more concerned with "authenticity", Serious Sam offered up traditional, Quake-style shooting. However, the more modern technology of the time allowed for a new take on that classic formula. Closed-in corridors are mostly replaced with wide-open environments, small groups of enemies are replaced by dozens attacking at any given time, and there are many hidden areas and treasures to find, often in obscure and counter-intuitive locations. Combat makes up most of the games, with Sam's only help being NETRICSA (NEuro-TRonically Implanted Combat Situation Analyser), an advanced computer AI surgically implanted in his brain.

NETRICSA serves as an in-game strategy guide, cataloguing encountered enemies and weapons, and at the same time providing bits about the background story and hints on how to progress. Ammunition and weapons are plentiful, and guns, for the most part, do not need to be reloaded. Enemy designs are whimsical and often take inspiration from mythology and fantasy, and include anything from flying harpies, to giant bipedal cybernetic monsters, to headless suicide-bombers.

Serious Sam features cooperative gameplay, something not commonly seen in modern PC first-person shooters. Besides network/online play, Serious Sam also allows for split screen action supporting up to 4 players and this is an even rarer multiplayer feature for PC games these days, although very common in gaming consoles.
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Rubicon X is a first person shooter that continues the story of Bungie's Marathon trilogy.

2010-06-08T11:10:00.001-07:00

Rubicon X is a free, cross platform, first person shooter that continues the story of Bungie's Marathon trilogy. First released as Marathon:Rubicon in 2001, Rubicon X is a complete overhaul of the original. It features all new high-resolution artwork, new and updated maps, and enough surprises to feel like a whole new game.

At the time of its original release in 2001, Rubicon was billed as the largest Marathon scenario project ever created. It featured hundreds of new textures, more than a dozen new characters, new scenery, weapons and lots of solo levels.

Rubicon X’s developers describe the new release as “a complete overhaul of the original” featuring new, high-resolution artwork, new and updated maps, “and enough surprises to feel like a whole new game.”

Marathon add-on scenarios and total conversions are nothing new, but Rubicon X is exceptional. It’s a completely new game that makes use of Aleph One, an open source descendant of the same engine that powered Bungie’s Marathon 2. Aleph One is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems, and also works with Intel-based Macs, through a variant that uses Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL). Visit the Rubicon X Web site for link

First released 12 years ago, Marathon was an intricate story that transported players to the 28th century, where players assume the role of a security officer who must defend human colonists from a race of aliens called the Pfhor. At the time, the game was lauded for its use of then-novel concepts like new multiplayer modes, dual-wielded weapons and more.

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Slickworm is a game with a vehicle physics and a landscape engine.

2010-05-30T10:51:00.001-07:00
Slickworm is a game with a vehicle physics and a landscape engine. It now has a first-person mode with rocket launcher which can deform the terrain.

It also has a vehicle that can be driven. The landscape engine uses variable Level-Of-Detail with geomipmapping.

Slickworm is going to be a shoot-em-up. Currently it's not yet playable but I hope to remedy that situation soon.

Currently it's still in active development. The most recent techdemo, 0.4.1, showcases the cityscapes that are now implemented.

Slickworm is Free Software. It's source code is BSD licensed.

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Adanaxis is a playable demo of a forthcoming game in four spatial dimensions.

2010-05-26T00:22:00.000-07:00
Adanaxis is the first in a new genre of action gaming, where the fundamentals of space itself are changed. By adding another dimension to space this game provides an environment like no other, recently made possible by the power of modern graphics hardware.

Initially it's like learning to play a 3D FPS for the first time, as the hand and eye have to learn a whole new type of coordination. Soon it becomes second nature, and you're rapidly blowing things out of the sky. The usual assortment of enemies, allies, weapons and power ups are there, and commercially sourced graphics, audio and voice acting add a little extra to this shareware title. Hopefully Adanaxis will convince you that this won't be the last title in spatial 4D.

Adanaxis is a deep space first-person shooter game in four spatial dimensions, written by Andy Southgate. The latest version of the game is 1.2.5. It is written in the C++ programming language using the GLUT library.

Adanaxis is designed to minimise the visibility and impact of 4D on the player. With just one extra control required, the game looks and plays a lot like a 3D shooter, with another aiming stage added on.

It uses 3D for rendering, and things like explosions, planets and galaxies look “normal”.

But other objects are rendered, very roughly, as projections of 4D objects on the 2D screen.[6] In the game manual, the author says he didn’t yet figure out how to implement real 4D and 4D explosions without making the game require a thousand times more processing power
Weapons.

* The basic Plasma Spitter is self-recharging but does minimal damage. Projectiles are guided, so once the player's crosshairs have registered a target (by turning blue or red) these projectiles will be guided to that target.
* The Machine Cannon provides more rapid fire than the base weapon. Damage is minimal and projectiles are unguided. Useful at close to medium range on lightly armoured targets.
* The short range Plasma Flak variant of the Spitter. Very effective at point blank range or in a target-rich environment.
* The Machine Cannon provides a rapid rate of fire that overwhelms its target quickly. It also rapidly exhausts its ammunition.
* Heavy Cannon projectiles are simple and effective. Dense and fast moving, their

repeated impact does enormous damage and can rapidly destroy targets.

* The range and power of the Beam Artillery makes it ideal for long-range engagements. There is a downside to that power - it will destroy anything that the target is carrying along with the target.
* Guided Ordnance is a medium range guided missile. Ideal for picking off a number of distant lightly armoured craft, or deployed en masse against a larger target.
* Heavy Guided Ordnance carries a high yield warhead and will damage both the target and surrounding objects. Also has excellent seek characteristics, long range and rarely loses a target.
* A captured device named the Gravity Sink. Precise characteristics are unknown. The weapon appears to be gravitational in nature, but has never been seen in operation.
* The Heavy Demolition Charge is cumbersome and slow to deploy, but the results are astounding. Fitted with a five second fuse. Its enormous blast radius makes it unwise to hit the target and cause early detonation. Aim to miss.

Health and Shield.

* The health display shows the basic condition of the player's craft, and when it reaches zero his/her craft can’t go on any more. Health boxes can be collected to improve the state of things.
* The shield protects the player's health from damage. Collecting shield boxes increases the shield strength to provide better protection.
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The Smokin' Guns game started its life under the name of Western Quake.

2010-05-24T02:52:00.000-07:00
Smokin' Guns is an open sourced, total conversion of id Software's Quake III Arena.

The Smokin' Guns game started its life under the name of Western Quake. It was originally developed by a team known as Iron Claw Interactive.

They released WQ3 beta 2.0 in 2003, after which development all but ceased. In May 2005, development of Western Quake was taken over of by a bunch of cowboys calling themselves The Smokin' Guns with the blessings of the former team.

With the release of the stand alone version in 2008, the game was renamed to Smokin' Guns, and the team to Smokin' Guns Productions. Throughout this manual, anytime you see the word "we" it should be noted that "we" refers to one or the other (or both) teams.

Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere was developed on Id Software's Quake III Arena Engine.

This total conversion includes completely new weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc. It also includes new gametypes and maps inspired mostly by movies. And to increase the feeling of a "gunslingers atmosphere" we also created music tracks and sounds adapted to this time period.
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Space Plumber is a first-person 3d game, not much different to Doom and Quake.

2010-05-17T12:19:00.000-07:00
Space Plumber is a first-person 3d game, not much different to Doom and Quake.

The main goal is to reach the extraction pumps before the water level increases swamping everything. Each of the 30 levels that conform the game have progressive difficulty by adding more pumps and consoles that you must deactivate first, and by making the map bigger.

There are no enemies, you fight against time and misorientation, and you only have your skills to move inside the maze.
The 1.1.x series are a port to use QDGDF, making it easier to compile in a variety of systems. It's included in the package, so you don't have to download it separately.
Download the source code:
http://triptico.com/download/splumber-1.1.0-rc2.tar.gz - [GPG signature]
or get the development version using git:

git clone http://git.triptico.com/splumber

If you use the git repository, remember you need QDGDF.
Win32 install package:
http://triptico.com/download/splumber-1.1.0-rc2.exe
This software is licensed under the GPL.
Latest version is 1.1.0-rc2. Space Plumber Release Notes.
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Standalone Q3 is a modified version of Quake 3 GPL .

2010-05-07T23:43:00.000-07:00
Standalone Q3 is a modified version of Quake 3 GPL engine allowing to play Quake 3 modswithout the need of the original Quake 3 CD. (Quake and Quake 3 aretrademark of ID Software)

Download:

Linux

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This page is the default project web page supplied by SourceForge.net. If you are a member of this project, you can deploy your own project web pages as per our site documentation.

If you are a web page developer interested in this project, please consider reaching out to the project admin (per the "Join this project" section, above) to offer your assistance.
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Tactical Operations: Crossfire is a fast paced first person online shooter in which two teams, terrorists and special forces.

2010-05-07T09:53:00.000-07:00
Tactical Operations: Crossfire is a fast paced first person online shooter in which two teams, terrorists and special forces, duke it out in a wide variety of environments with various objectives to accomplish.

Tactical Operations: Crossfire is a fast paced first person online shooter in which two teams, terrorists and special forces, duke it out in a wide variety of environments with various objectives to accomplish.

From rescuing hostages kept in a small desert town in Saudi-Arabia to preventing the bombing of an oil refinery on the Caspian sea shore. There are no less than fourteen official maps to choose from!

Each map is played for a certain amount of time and the team having won the most rounds when the time runs out is declared the winner. A round can be won either by completing the objective set for that team, such as rescueing the hostages, or by simply eliminating all players on the opposite team.

A large number of weapons is avaialable for both teams, which can be purchased by each player at the start of the round. Out of the thirty weapons currently available, there's bound to be a weapon to suit your style of playing, be it either up close and personal with the Benelli Nova tactical shotgun or sneaky sniper work with the Dragunov SVD.

Tactical Operations: Crossfire continues where the popular Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror left off, with many classic weapons returning and remakes of some of the original maps. To play TO:C, you will need Unreal Tournament 2004 installed and patched to the latest version (3369).

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C4 scenario – Terrorists plan a bit of industrial espionage, Special Forces dig their heels in for a siege. This industrial themed map brings fast and tight action that should please shottie whores and snipers alike.

OBJ-Asylum][ – By CrysAk & Mimir

Escape scenario – A terrorist group attacks the prison of Asylum to get one of the most important criminals out of there. They blast a hole into the prisons wall to escape from there. Now they need to get outside to the boats but the Special Forces landed in the meantime with a helicopter in the inner courtyard to stop the fleeing. (Public map-version without escape point for VIP!)
OBJ-Asylum][-VIP – By CrysAk & Mimir

V.I.P. scenario – A terrorist group attacks the prison of Asylum to get one of the most important criminals out of there. They blast a hole into the prisons wall to escape from there. Now they need to get outside to the boats but the Special Forces landed in the meantime with a helicopter in the inner courtyard to stop the VIP from fleeing.

OBJ-Avion – By BabyNuke

Console scenario – Set in a small airport in a desert dust storm, this map brings fast action, crisp visuals and some great z-axis fighting. A sure fire crowd pleaser.
OBJ-Blink – By Antilop
Hostage scenario – A terrorist group in France have kidnapped hostages and are hiding out in an abandoned mine. Special forces have arrived on a rescue mission.

OBJ-Blister][ – By Mimir

C4 scenario – Terrorists are trying to blow up a village on the outskirts of an Arabic City, they are at the village to try and smuggle drugs from town to town, Special Forces got a link back from the Spy telling them to send in the SWAT team. Special Forces want to intercept but they are not sure when the Terrorists are going to blow the place up to get rid of the drug evidence. Special Forces have been sent in to secure the place, try and stop the Terrorists from planting the bomb and arrest the Terrorists, if not kill them.

OBJ-Bushido – By Zer0.BE

Hostage scenario – A group of right-winged extremists has invaded the small town of Bushido during the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister. They have taken the Prime Minister hostage and hope to achieve the release of some of their imprisoned members through this act of violence.

Download for Linux requires:

Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004 Patch v3369.2

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Tenebrae is a GNU General Public Licensed first-person shooter engine, one of the many Quake engines.

2010-04-25T07:28:00.000-07:00
Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake. Stencil shadows allow for realistic shadow effects on every object in the game world. Per pixel lighting allows you to have fine surface details correctly lit. These are essentially the same algorithms as used by the new Doom game.

Tenebrae is a GNU General Public Licensed first-person shooter engine, one of the many Quake engines, it was created and is now mantained by Charles Hollemeersch . Tenebrae is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS X platforms. Tenebrae means darkness in Latin.

Tenebrae2 only supports the Quake3 bsp format. If you want to make new levels in the Quake1 bsp format or use existing Quake1 levels you should use Tenebrae1.

It is notable for implementing stencil shadows and per-pixel lighting. The potential to use these rendering technologies in a PC gaming engine was already proven by their being known to be part of the game DOOM 3 (also by id Software), but the Tenebrae engine then became publicly available in late 2002 before this game was released.

A much improved version under the name Tenebrae 2 has been under construction since mid- 2003. Tenebrae 2 features major optimizations in the rendering engine (with extensive use hardware acceleration) and full support for Quake 3 maps (as opposed to the less feature-rich Quake map format). Although it is also based on the original Quake source-code, the Tenebrae 2 engine is capable of producing graphics which rival those of many modern closed-source engines (DOOM 3, FarCry, etc.)

A single-player game known as Industri uses Tenebrae as its engine.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision.

2010-04-17T00:28:00.001-07:00
The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software developed its multiplayer mode. Id Software, the creators of Wolfenstein 3D, oversaw the development and were credited as executive producers.

The multiplayer side eventually became the most popular part of the game, and was influential in the genre. Splash Damage, an independently-owned game developer in London, created some of the maps for the Game of the Year edition. A sequel, titled Wolfenstein, was released on August 18, 2009.

Multiplayer.

Wolf MP is an objective game mode, in which both the Axis and Allies have a series of objectives to complete to win the round, with one team's objectives normally preventing the other team from completing their objectives. There are primary and secondary objectives. Primary objectives have to be achieved to win the round, where secondary objectives don't necessarily need to be achieved, but can aid in certain ways in completing primary objectives. Primary objectives include blowing something up, or escaping with the documents, and secondary objectives include capturing flag/spawn points. As far as the classes are concerned, medics can leave medic packs to heal comrades, but can run out of ammunition quickly. Lieutenants can provide packs of ammo, as well as calling for air strikes, but need a medic to stay alive. Engineers are able to blow up walls using dynamite.

Wolf MP - Stock or "Vanilla" Wolf calls for one round of offense and defense per team, per map. Each team gets a certain amount of time to complete the map's objectives. A few maps are dual-objective, and instead of time being the variable, whoever completed the given task first, wins.

Wolf SW (Stopwatch) was the main competitive game type for RtCW, each team would attack twice and defend twice on a map — where team A would attack and set a time or not set a time, known as a "Full Hold", then team B would attack and have to beat that time to score a point. If they did not beat the time then team A were awarded the point, the only other outcome was if neither team set a time, known as a "Double Full Hold", neither team scored a point. Games were played over two maps and each map would be played ABBA, so each team got to go first at setting a time on each map.

Wolf CP is a checkpoint mode, the objective is to take control of the flags that are in various locations around the map, the first team to control all these flags simultaneously will win the round.

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The Hunted is a single-player fps game based off of the Darkplaces engine'.

2010-04-11T06:41:00.001-07:00
The Hunted is a single-player fps game based off of the Darkplaces engine.

It is completely standalone meaning you do not need any prior files to run it and it comes in a series called "Chronicles"'

These "Chronicles" are used to having a continually flowing story and a difference from weaponry and other things found in-game' Each "Chronicle" tells the story of a lone survivor escaping the city that has been overcome by the infected' The infecteds' symptoms at the time of the survivor's adventure are not clear but as the chronicles are released the story unfolds to make it quite clear as to why, where, when, and how this survivor came to be in a horror show such as this'.

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source: The Hunted Chronicles

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Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life.

2010-04-11T06:04:00.001-07:00
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few), where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop until a key is pressed.
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Here is the Tilda project page at sourceforge. However, please send all bug reports or suggestion to sloutri AT iit.edu.
Install Guide.
1) Here is the software you'll need installed besides tilda:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/

2) unzip and untar the source, change directorys to the tilda dir and run:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

3) Run tilda -C to bring up the configuration wizard, even if you had tilda
installed before, ~/.tilda/config changes all the time.

4) The command 'tilda' runs tilda later

5) Default key F[$instance+1] so if this is first tilda you run, instance=0, press
F1 to bring tilda up and down. Example key bindings:

None+grave -- ~
None+F1 -- can be any key instead of F1 as well
Control+x -- can be any key instead of x as well
Alt+x -- can be any key instead of x as well

Be sure that xbindkeys is not running! If it grabs the same key as you want Tilda to use.

6) tilda -h to see the rest of the command line options. If you want a transparent bg
and you want a white font do the follow "tilda -t -b black" this will set the
forground color to white and the terminal transparent.

7) lock files are stored in ~/.tilda/locks now so keep an eye on that dir if Tilda
dies in an odd way, seg fault or xkill.

8) Shortcuts for tabs are: Ctrl-Shift-T (New Tab), Ctrl-Shift-PageUp (Next Tab),
Ctrl-Shift-PageDown (Prev Tab).

Screenshots.

source: Tilda

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