In the game, players assume the role of Frank, the sugar glider who was the antagonist of the film Big Buck Bunny (Peach Open Movie Project), or Momo, a monkey created especially for Yo Frankie!.

Features include:

• 2 versions with different gameplay:
  • A Furry Vendetta – Blender Game Engine
  • Furry Funny Frankie – Cystal Space Engine
• Pixar-quality animation

To install it in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update yofrankie-bge=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Thanks Falk Wittwer for packaging for Foresight.

Widelands has single-player, network and internet multiplayer modes, single player campaign missions and an internationalisation system with translations for Czech, German, English, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Dutch. Players may select one of three different tribes. Widelands provides two tutorial missions. Advanced players can create their own maps with the included map editor and it is also possible to import and play original Settlers II maps.

To install it in Foresight, open a terminal and write:

sudo conary update widelands=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

PARIS, FRANCE, May 6, 2010 — Winch Gate Properties Ltd, the developer and publisher of massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playing games, is proud to announce the release of the source code and artistic assets of the popular MMORPG Ryzom to the Free Software Development Community.

Developers can now access the source code of the end-user client, content creation tools and server in order to make modifications, enhancements or to create their own virtual worlds. This move marks a milestone in Ryzom’s long history and dedication to the free software movement. In order to ensure that Ryzom continues to grow and foster as a free software project, Winch Gate is now releasing Ryzom under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License.

Winch Gate is also excited to provide the free software community with high quality professional artistic assets including 3D objects, animation tracks, particle effects and thousands of textures. All of the Ryzom artistic assets will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike to ensure that they and any derivative art will be available to all free software projects. These assets will be hosted in a new online repository in partnership with the Free Software Foundation.

By freeing Ryzom code, Winch Gate is transforming the MMORPG marketplace and is setting a precedent for how gaming software should evolve–in freedom. The source code released totals over two (2) million lines of source code and over 20,000 high quality textures and thousands of 3D objects.

Welcoming the news, Free Software Foundation executive director Peter Brown said, “This is a unique opportunity for the free software movement and the emerging free gaming field to accelerate the production of free games and 3D worlds. We recognize the importance of gaming and the current dominance of proprietary gaming software, so today represents a significant breakthrough from which our community can benefit.” The FSF has published more information about the scope of today’s release, and suggested ways for developers to get involved

Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer of Winch Gate says, “The Free Software community often has a difficult time finding great graphical assets that they can use in their own projects. We are sure that the thousands of textures and 3D objects we are releasing under the CC BY-SA will help a lot of Free Software projects.”

Winch Gate intends to incorporate certain code changes and enhancements into the official version of the Ryzom game. All code developed outside Winch Gate’s in-house development staff will be thoroughly reviewed to ensure quality standards, stability and security. In order to engage and foster growth in the Ryzom project, Ryzom will have a group of community managers who can manage patch submissions and feature requests. Support will continue to be given for the official Ryzom software only, with third-party projects unsupported by Winch Gate.

Initial projects will include bug fixes and porting to operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OS X. Timeframes for these enhancements will vary depending on the scale of the project and the project team. The level and world data associated with Ryzom will not be released as free content and their use will remain exclusive to players of the Ryzom game.

The source code and additional information will be available from the Ryzom Core Development Portal.

The Ryzom’s free media assets are available from Ryzom’s Asset Repository.

About Ryzom
Ryzom is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing or MMORPG Game set more than 3.000 years into the future, on a living, evolving virtual world: beautiful Atys, where after creating your own personal avatar you will guide it through this strange fantastic planet to uncover its mysteries.
The game boasts a unique science-fantasy setting, a distinctive and artistic visual style and a sophisticated plot based upon the conflict of two mysterious supernatural powers. The storyline was awarded “Mmorpg.com Best Story” award. Gameplay is highly adaptive to your personal preferences and the actions/skills system is remarkably unique, sophisticated and profound.
Ryzom Ring is the proprietary innovative free expansion that brings MMORPGs to a new level. Ryzom Ring allows you to create your own role-play and RPG Adventures on the world of Atys.

About Winch Gate
Winch Gate Properties Ltd is the developer and publisher of the massively-multiplayer online science fantasy role playing game Ryzom since 2009. Former employees from Nevrax joined the company to continue to work on Ryzom.

For more information contact:
Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer
vl@ryzom.com
irc: #ryzom on irc.freenode.net

Links
Announcement
MMORPG Ryzom
Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License
Ryzom Core Development Portal
Ryzom’s Asset Repository

Thanks for rettichschnidi from the lgp IRC channel at the freenodes server for the news.

Original source: http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com

We would like to formally announce the arrival of Xonotic – A free (GPL), fast-paced first-person shooter that works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Xonotic is a direct successor of the Nexuiz Project.

Xonotic came about in the wake of recent troublesome changes to the Nexuiz project, changes that have left many of the core contributors and community members feeling that the project has been mishandled. As a result, we felt the need to organize a departure to start with a clean slate.

Xonotic will place focus on the things we love about Nexuiz, and extend our goals to become the game that many thought Nexuiz should have been.

It sounds promising and I recommend to follow them on twitter or Facebook to keep on track about whats happening.

Chroma

Chroma is an abstract puzzle game. A variety of colourful shapes are arranged in a series of increasingly complex patterns, forming fiendish traps that must be disarmed and mysterious puzzles that must be manipulated in order to give up their subtle secrets. Initially so straightforward that anyone can pick it up and begin to play, yet gradually becoming difficult enough to tax even the brightest of minds.

Can you find the shortest solutions to Chroma’s challenges? Compete with other players in the Hall of Fame.

To install chroma, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update chroma=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Yoda Soccer is a project which intends to create a new free game for Windows/Linux/MacOS with the gameplay and the style of the well known Sensible World of Soccer (a.k.a. SWOS).

Gameplay will be in swos style, so frenetic, with only a button for shot, pass etc. and of course, freedom to do everything you want. The swos gameplay lacks only in a few things, and we are going to solve them. First of all, volleys and bicycle kicks will be quite certainly in the game. More weather conditions and also other things to actualize.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Windows/Linux: 800 Mhz processor, GeForce2 or better with 32MB RAM

If you cant wait for the game to turn up in Foresight own repo, you can always search for it in rpath. Im sure you get a hit

More to come……..

The biggest RTS element in the game is the ability to build structures with a wide variety of functions such as healing, respawning and defense. This feature enables more strategy than just running around and shooting at the opposing team. Another big difference in this game is the two races: humans and aliens. Aliens are more fun to play than the humans due to the ability to climb ceilings and evolve into other classes as they rack up kills. All in all, Tremulous is a must for any gamer looking for a deeper online shooter that is free to play.

Key Features

• Free to play and open source.
• Combines team-based FPS elements with RTS elements.
• Two races: aliens and humans.
• Can play as various alien classes with special abilities.
• Different advancement structure for humans and aliens.
• Humans get credits for kills that can be used to buy gear while aliens change classes with kills.
• Players can sell and buy new weapons and armor.
• Aliens can scale walls and ceilings.
• More realistic physics than most other online shooters.
• Structures with different functions such as respawning and healing can be built.
• In order to win, one team must wipe all the players of the opposing team and destroy their respawn structures.
  

To try it out in Foresight Linux, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update tremulous=@fl:2-devel

Happy gaming

The gameplay is deathmatch with the most excessive possible speeds and weapons, giving incredibly intense fast paced action. Along with deathmatch, there are multiple gamemodes such as team deathmatch, capture the flag, domination, and many mutators and weapon options like rocket arena and instagib. The user can fight through the single player campaign, going through over 20 levels, or play online with our server browser.

To install it in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update nexuiz=@fl:2-devel

It will be soon in all repos, so you can find it through packagekit.

You can control and watch your finances and the traffic of your vehicles and goods. Play as long as you like. Start in 1880 and finish in 2050. There will be new vehicles and buildings throughout this time. Cities will grow and merge forming metropolises.

Play against the AI or on your own. Only if you are in debt for three months, you are bankrupt and the game is over.

To try it in Foresight Linux, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update simutrans=@fl:2-devel

ASC can be played both against the AI and against other human players, using hotseat or PlayByMail. It is also used to run the multiplayer universe Project Battle Planets.

And iv’e made it easier to install it in Foresight Linux. For installing it, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update asc=@fl:2-devel

It’s still in developing repo, but it should work perfectly. Will end up in all repos later…..