No Starch Press has announced the winners of the SDL Game Development Contest. The top three winners are Michael Speck’s LBreakout 2, Andreas Roever’s Tower Toppler, and Bill Kendrick’s Vectoroids. Our thanks to everyone that sent this news in.
HardCoreWare.net has posted a review of Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition. The review covers installation, configuration, WineX, and some benchmarking results.
Dave Swegen sent in the following:
Couldn’t see that this had been mentioned yet, but Co Do games areapparently looking for linux users to beta test their new game Laser SquadNemesis. Since it is being done by Julian Gollop (of X-Com fame) it shouldbe interesting.
If interested, you can post in this forum thread.
Version 1.11.1 of the DOOM engine source modificationVavoom has been released. Changes includeweapon and bot fixes. You can read more about the project’s additions to the base DOOM engine here.
Vavoom 1.11.1 Source:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vavoom/v111_1_src.zip
Version 2.4.17 of the Linux kernel was released; thechangelog can be found in its usualplace.
Linux 2.4.17 Patch and Full Source Repository:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
Thanks to Chuckles for letting us know thatSlashdot linkeda petitionfrom TA Forver which asksCavedog Entertainment to open the source code toTotal Annihilation, a classic RTS game.Although petitions usually aren’t terribly successful (a notable exception being thePS2 Linuxpetition effort), several old commercial games have had their source released under relatively open licenses over the years:
…and probably more I’m forgetting. I also recall an open effort to reverse-engineer TA, but I’m not aware of itscurrent status.
Version 1.2 of the Q3 add-on / mod Threewave CTF has been released; changes include new additions and bugfixes.
Threewave CTF 1.2 download mirrors: www.threewave.com/mirrors.html
Version 1.2 of the 3D Scorched Earth clone Scorched Island 3D has been released; changes include:
Scorched Island 3D 1.2 source: si3d-1.2.tar.gz
Version 0.6.7 of the shufflepuck game TuxPuck has been released; changes include:
TuxPuck 0.6.7 source: tuxpuck-0.6.7.tar.gz
Version 0.1.0 of the implementation of LucasArts’s SCUMM interpreter ScummVM has been released; changes include:
ScummVM 0.1.0 source: scummvm-0.1.0.zip
ScummVM author Ludvig Strigeus advises that we use CVS snapshots of ScummVM rather than these official releases because the code in the releases gets old quickly.
Version 0.7.0 of the 3D overhead racing game Race has been released. The major change in this version is the switch from a 2D to a 3D game.
Race 0.7.0 downloads: race.sourceforge.net/download.php3
UnknownPlayer.com has posted an interview with the creator of Uplink, Chris Delay. The interview covers Introversion Software, the history of Uplink, the success of the game thus far, and the possibility of a sequel.
Ralph Schmeisser from gamesforlinux.de wrote in to let us know that they have posted some new reviews:
Version 0.90 beta of the racing robot programming game RARS has been released; changes include:
RARS 0.90 beta source: rars090b1.zip
Version 1.0.1 of the Tetris clone LTris has been released; changes include:
LTris 1.0.1 source: ltris-1.0.1.tar.gz
MatthewJG wrote in to note that he emailed the Kyro developers at PowerVR, and was pointed towards some additional information that has been released. The most interesting bit is the announcement of a public beta program to begin in February 2002. Also worth mentioning is that the driver will use the DRI. The developers went on to state that, instead of emailing them, interested parties should check the following sites:
As Funcom has previously stated, the decision to make a Linux Anarchy Online client was to be “reevaluated after the release of the Windows clients.” Well, the reevaluation has been completed and the port has been (unsurprisingly) axed. In their official announcement they state the reason to be “not enough users to support the addition.”
Mark Hughes wrote in to announce that version 1.03 of his RPG system Hephaestus (screenshot) has been released. It is written in Java, supports custom adventures written in a scripting language, and is released as shareware.
Hephaestus 1.03 download: hephaestus.zip
A.T. Hun from The Haus wrote in to let us know that he has posted a review of relnev’s Quake2 source port. The review covers the eased setup and install procedure, compiling, configuration, and timedemo results.
O’Reilly ONLamp.com posted an article on Pygame, the Python wrapper for SDL. The article is written by Gareth Noyce, the Pygame logo artist, so it focuses on promoting Pygame and its virtues.
