| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8559 | 4 | 2008-08-06 08:23:48 | <a href="/images/awg.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/awg.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="125"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> Harvest resources and kill people. <p>Written by a group of first-year computer science students at the Universe of Science and Technology in Norway, the game centers around the epic battle against the evil seahorse Awesome.<br /> You take control of a military base, train units, and then finally you can attack the other base.</p> | Awesome Wargame 1.1 | new | Awesome Wargame |
| 8560 | 4 | 2008-08-06 20:45:46 | <a href="/images/paintball2.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/paintball2.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A standalone paintball game utilizing a modified Quake2 engine <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Added enter game and disconnect sound effects. <li>Made different sound effects for team chat and global chat. <li>Fixed sound attenuation in software sound mode to have exponential falloff so you are not hearing things on the other side of the map like they are right next to you. <li>Fixed crash with blank file specification. <li>Fixed occasional crash when viewing scoreboard. <li>New PGP and Spyder sounds. <li>New footstep and falling sounds. <li>New chat, connect, and disconnect sounds. <li>Tweaked PGP and Trracer animations (these require playing on a new server to work properly).</ul> | Paintball 2 Build 023 | updated | Paintball 2 |
| 8561 | 4 | 2008-08-06 21:44:10 | <a href="/images/MartinBalcomb18_sm.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/MartinBalcomb18_sm.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="122"></a> <em>Category: </em>simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> X-Plane is a very realistic flight simulator <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Frame-rate improved <li>Almost no delay in scenery-shifting <li>new planes <li>Aircraft panels can be up to 2048x2048 <li>3-D cockpit has 3-D lighting for panel texture <li>Custom liveries <li>and lots of other changes</ul> | X-Plane 9.00 | updated | X-Plane |
| 8562 | 4 | 2008-08-06 22:02:07 | <a href="/images/Screenshot-StonesoftheGods.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/Screenshot-StonesoftheGods.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.09"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.09" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.09"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.09" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.09"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.09" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.09"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.09" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Match-3 Game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>The game is a little easier now <li>Combo's provide more "water" <li>Fix some engine errors <li>Fix some memory leaks</ul> | Stones of the Gods 1.0.1 | updated | Stones of the Gods |
| 8563 | 4 | 2008-08-07 07:27:30 | <a href="/images/summersession.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/summersession.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>text adv<br> <em>Description:</em> Keep your grades up while chasing girls in this dating sim. <p>It's summer - and you're still in school! In Summer Session, you must balance your schedule to raise your stats and pass your exams. Meet unique characters, make friends, and find romance, then play again to unlock all the endings.</p> | Summer Session 1.0 | new | Summer Session |
| 8564 | 4 | 2008-08-07 08:39:18 | <a href="/images/ott.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/ott.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="145"></a> <em>Category: </em>simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.63"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.63" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.63"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.63" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.63"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.63" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.63"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.63" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.63"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.63" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> An open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe". <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>bugfix release <li>fixed buffer overflow that can be remotely exploited</ul> | OpenTTD 0.6.2 | updated | OpenTTD |
| 8565 | 4 | 2008-08-07 18:20:47 | <a href="/images/yetanotherfreedroidshotforjohannes.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/yetanotherfreedroidshotforjohannes.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>rpg<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.41"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.41" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.41"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.41" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.41"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.41" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.41"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.41" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A graphical single player sci-fi RPG featuring Tux and evil MS bots <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>modified the endgame scenario and started integrating the Hell Fortress, adding 2 more levels <li>added a secret research center level <li>changed town to make it more "lifelike" and easier to find yourself around <li>modified start level to improve richness of content <li>added and rebalanced weapons. There now are a few melee weapons, projectile pistols and rifles, and futuristic energy weapons. <li>changed and rebalanced programs, including added a new default skill to help tux from overheating. Makes a "magic user" character a possible and interesting alternative. <li>new music tracks <li>the savegame system has been rewritten to use plain text instead of binary dumps. This allows compatibility of savegames between platforms and makes them hand-editable, and usable for bug reporting. <li>using a texture atlas for floor tiles in OpenGL mode yields a 20%+ performance improvement <li>fixed many bugs in robot AI <li>using a better collision detection algorithm, and pathfind bots waypoint routes, in an attempt to reduce bots getting into walls <li>full translation support for game data based on gettext </ul> | Freedroid RPG 0.11rc1 | updated | Freedroid RPG |
| 8566 | 4 | 2008-08-08 07:54:48 | <a href="/images/wordwarvi_screenshot.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/wordwarvi_screenshot.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.36"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.36" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.36"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.36" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.36"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.36" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.36"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.36" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>The "--thicklines" option was added, which causes everything to be drawn with thicker lines. <li>Icons were added. <li>Minor optimizations were made for performance. <li>The Linux specific rumble code was protected <li>with ifdefs. <li>Now bombs bounce off the airships.</ul> | Word War vi 0.22 | updated | Word War vi |
| 8567 | 4 | 2008-08-08 08:07:12 | <a href="/images/libcrtxy-aa.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/libcrtxy-aa.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="164"></a> <em>Category: </em>code<br> <em>Description:</em> Fixed-point math scalable graphics library for creating vector-graphics games <p>libcrtxy is a simple graphics library for drawing points and lines, to create games like vector-graphics arcade classics from the 1970s and 80s. Utilizing fixed-point math, and a scalable virtual canvas, games written with libcrtxy benefit from scalability from slow CPU systems with small screens and no FPU, up to high-end systems with accelerated graphics cards. You write your game, users decide how it looks based on their system's capabilities (anti-aliasing, alpha blending, etc.) | libcrtxy - The CRT X-Y graphics library 0.0.1 | new | libcrtxy - The CRT X-Y graphics library |
| 8568 | 4 | 2008-08-08 08:40:34 | <a href="/images/LBreakout2HP.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/LBreakout2HP.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.54"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.54" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.54"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.54" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.54"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.54" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.54"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.54" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.54"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.54" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> The polished successor to LBreakout offers a new challenge. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>french translation added</ul> | LBreakout 2.6beta-7 | updated | LBreakout |