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After Orange and Peach, Blender Institute continued with a new open project: Apricot. This time it wasn’t a movie but a 3D game! Starting february 1st 2008, a small team of again the best 3D artist and developers worked on a game jointly with the on-line community. The main character in the game has been based on the short 3D animation open movie Peach. The project ended in august, and in october 2008 the DVD and game was released.
Flash games are facing stiff competition from JavaScript. You’ll see why when you follow along with this tutorial to create your first JavaScript-based game.
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 0..1 Range
In Warzone 2100, you command the forces of "The Project" in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics.
Adventure Game Studio allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use editor to create your games, and a run-time engine to play them.
HOWTOs on game art
hooray for in-office procrastination
on using c and assembly for game engines and graphics, references to doom and quake
an alternative and exciting mmog approach
simcity is free software! :D
call to arms for indie developers
nice pointers on game concept development
physics fun for the whole family