Space Nerds in Space

Space Nerds in Space (or SNiS for short) is a collaborative space exploration game with a twist: Each player is responsible for one part of the same ship. The game allows for multiple teams to compete against each other, and can also accomodate a game master that can inject non-player parties into the universe.

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New KDE5 – Now with Added Intelligence!

Inge Wallin, a developer of KDE’s office productivity suite, Calligra, has just released the very first KDE-specific AI library. Wallin, who has previously designed AIs for commercial games, wrote the library because he thought that the AIs of many of KDE’s games were weak. Although the library is still in its early stages of development,…

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Christmas is coming (III): The Gift of Freedom

It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And not only in the not-costing-any-money sense of the word either. Free Software is on the rise and many apps targeted at end-users are as good, sometimes better, than expensive proprietary alternatives.

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Terasology – The Beautiful Minecraft Clone

Now that Minecraft and Mojang belong to Microsoft, things don’t bode well for multiplatfom playing or open modding and APIs within the game. That’s why plenty of players are looking for alternatives to jump ship to so they can continue enjoying their “social lego” world-building activities. Well, good news, everyone! Alternatives exist, and at least…

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Linux gaming

From Windows to Linux, Part 3: Games

The third part of our migration slash conversion adventure takes us into the realm of gaming. Alongside Office really, this is the big reason why so many people still keep Windows around, myself included. There are still a huge number of games available only for Windows, and we want to be able to play them.…

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Develop a CC0 game and win $1,000

Creative Commons is running what they’ve dubbed a “Public Domain Jam”: You have until the 24th to develop a CC0 (Public Domain) game and you could win $1,000. The 1,000 bucks are coming out of Nick Liow’s pocket. He’s the guy who created the CC0 (and crowdfunded), paranoia-laden game Nothing to Hide, available as an…

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