Search and Rescue I 1.3.0 and SaR II 2.0.0

SaR2

The 1.3.0 release of Search and Rescue mostly contains improvements from the fork SaRII and I'm not sure why the forking happened but I'm glad to read that it happened without bad blood. :)

SaRII aims for better looks and ease of use and it seems that SaR will take improvements from the fork but will also try to maintain backwards compatibility.

There are many ways to collaborate with the project [SaRII]:

• Designing new scenario files (no deep programming knowledge required)
• Designing some new missions (no deep programming knowledge required)
• Designing some new graphics and backgrounds for the menus.
• Finding and fixing bugs
• Improving documentation
• Adding new features
• Porting SaR II to other OSs
• Donating some cash 

It'd be great for SaR to be easier to get started with.

I will use page2rss.com to track changes of these two projects.

Stunt Rally 1.1

Stunt Rally 1.1 looking awesome

Stunt Rally now compiles on Linux!

There is a two-part text-commented video tutorial for making new tracks on youtube [p1 | p2]. Check out this channel if you want to see more videos of the game.

Technology-wise the game is VDrift + Ogre + Pagedgeometry (also used in DungeonHack) + MyGUI.

Thumbs up to the project website following the "big screenshots on main page"-philosophy!

Free Gamer = Freeware Gamer

I was thinking of writing an April fool's post but then started thinking over how confusing the terms "Free Software" and "Free" and "FOSS" often prove to be and after a quick chat that included all the authors of Free Gamer we will turn to Freeware because there are many more games in freeware space and it's much easier to deal with games when you don't care about licenses too much.

Our future logo

So I present to you: Freeware Gamer (site redesign and re-branding pending).

Stay tuned for lots of updates on games we played on Newgrounds and Facebook!