| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2554 | 1298 | 2002-06-04 13:27:07 | <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<br> <em>Description:</em> TWClone is a clone of the popular BBS Door game Trade Wars 2002. It is a multi-player turn based strategy game where players trade fuel ore, organics and equipment between space ports to earn credits and eventually become the undisputed master of the universe. | TWClone 0.10 | new | TWClone |
| 2555 | 3 | 2002-06-04 17:46:56 | <img src="/images/thumbs/UltimateOthello.jpg" align="right" width="168" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> Gtk port of the famous reversi software running on Linux and Mac OS X. | Ultimate Othello 1667 | new | Ultimate Othello |
| 2556 | -1 | 2002-06-05 08:01:19 | <img src="/images/thumbs/lgeneral.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <br> This release features some bugfixes especially in the combat rules for aircrafts/ships vs. infantry. (without this fix aircrafts and ships will have absolutely no defense against infantry) | LGeneral 1.0.2 | updated | LGeneral |
| 2557 | 4 | 2002-06-05 23:35:17 | <img src="/images/thumbs/SDLInvaders.png" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"> <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A Clone of Space invaders using SDL. <p> <em>Changelog (since 0.5.1):</em> <ul> <li>much better keyboard handling (patch by: Roman Hoog Antink) <li>you now can shoot the alien shots (patch by: Roman Hoog Antink) <li>some small changes <li>some well needed code cleanup </ul> | SDLInvaders 0.5.3 | updated | SDLInvaders |
| 2559 | 3 | 2002-06-06 16:03:28 | <img src="/images/thumbs/Majesty.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""> <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<p> <em>Description:</em> This announcement arrived through LGP's mailing list:<p> <i><ul>We are pleased to announce the first screenshot from the Linux version of Majesty. Majesty is currently in development here at LGP, and we will be bringing you regular new screenshots, so keep checking back.</i></ul><p> Game description from the LGP website:<p> <ul><i>Majesty for Linux contains both the full Majesty game, and the expansion pack, The Northern Expansion.<br> Majesty is a Real Time Strategy game with a difference. Instead of controling your forces directly, you have to ask them, and if they think its a good idea, or if you pay them enough, then they will do it. Otherwise, they`ll tell you just what you can do with your orders! </i></ul> | Majesty | new | Majesty |
| 2560 | -1 | 2002-06-06 16:44:04 | <img src="/images/thumbs/ingame_draw.png" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""> <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Description:</em> 4st Attack 2 is a great looking connect-four game. It has a decent AI player as well as internet multiplayer support. | 4st Attack 2.0 | new | 4st Attack 2 |
| 2561 | 3 | 2002-06-06 17:01:22 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<p> <em>Description:</em> monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for playing Monopoly-like board games. <br>Clients such as <a href="http://unixcode.org/atlantik/">Atlantik</a> connect to the server and communicate using short commands and XML messages. | monopd 0.3.0 | new | monopd |
| 2562 | 5747 | 2002-06-07 02:09:33 | <img src="/images/thumbs/epiar.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"> <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> Epiar is a space adventure/combat game based off the Mac game Escape Velocity. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <p> After two months of development and some internal team changes, Epiar-0.17 is now available. This major release of Epiar includes many new features over 0.16 ... enough to make the Epiar developers shutter at the sight of 0.16. <br> New to Epiar-0.17: <ul> <li> All new title screen and menu <li> All new hud w/ elliptical radar and targetting feature <li> Many many bug fixes and optimizations <li> Slight gameplay tweaks <li> Added the idea of fuel in jumping <li> Expanded universe </ul> Also, we have a new poll available at epiar.sf.net. Please come and vote on what you would like to be implemented next ... and the leading result will be implemented! :-) | Epiar 0.17 | updated | Epiar |
| 2563 | 2 | 2002-06-07 10:31:20 | <a href="mailto:claudio_garcia23@speedy.com.ar">Caudio García</a> wrote to announce <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxrpg">TuxRPG</a>, a new role playing game project. TuxRPG will be an adventure fantasy role-playing game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin, where animals talk and co-exist in society with human beings. Tux, the main character, who works for Linus Torvalds, is given a top secret assignment from his boss that turns into his biggest adventure ever! <p> The TuxRPG Project Administrator is currently looking for people to submit ideas for the game as well as help with the web page design and the publication of press releases related to the project. If you are interested in helping in any way with this game, please go to the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/people/?group_id=54568">Project Help Wanted page</a> and reply to the one of the available positions. <p> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxrpg">TuxRPG project page at Sourceforge</a> <br> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/people/?group_id=54568">TuxRPG project help wanted page</a> | TuxRPG project is seeking team members | default | |
| 2564 | -1 | 2002-06-07 10:30:28 | <img src="/images/thumbs/pyddr-0.4.9-1.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A DDR [Dance Dance Revolution] clone written in Python. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>A few optimizations and fixes to the game <li>ddrmat module and pyjoy were merged <li>new timing method and a few error handlers <li>the game now has a debug mode to run a single song from the commandline <li>the grading screen is more detailed or can be turned off <li>New options implemented include "Little", floating-point scrollspeed, arrow exploding style, and most notably, configurable colored arrows. </ul> | pyDDR 0.5.1 | updated | pydance |