It’s here! Including all the recent pre-Xmas updates such as the new line-of-sight effect, wibbly wobbly shader effects, friendly droid targeting HUD display, and of course most importantly, pot plants, but now with added Steam gubbins – there’s 30+ achievements to er… achieve, and you can compete for hiscores with your Steam Friends! … and [...]

This is your last chance. Both the Christmas Bundle and the December Monthly Deal, featuring the below Christmas Skins, will be removed from the Marketplace on January 10th. Get them before they're gone!

 

Christmas Bundle

The bundle includes four Limited Edition heroes from PoxNora dressed in festive Christmas attire in-game. 

December Monthly Deal

If you only want one or a few of the Christmas Limited Edition heroes, you can also grab the December Monthly Deal, which randomly comes with one of the four. 

 

 

 

Some of these will be up now (5 PM Pacific on the 3rd), but the majority won't be up til 3 AM's restart

 

BUGS

Scramble - No longer incorrectly affects the unit with the ability

Elven Page - The ability Menalaus' Page now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Menalaus

Moga Lord's Guard - The ability Dirge's Guard now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Dirge

Attendant Squire - The ability Royal Blood now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Euan

Imp Familiar - The ability Familiar now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Grimlic

Dimension Shift - No longer incorrectly functions while under the effects of Wandering

Land Mine - Land Mines no longer damage units with Combat Awareness

Hive - No longer damages units with Combat Awareness

Scouring Jasper - No longer damages units with Combat Awareness

Hit and Run - No longer triggers incorrectly if the unit is Frightened and attacks the unit that Frightened it

Barbed Vine Leash - No longer incorrectly causes 5 Loss of Life multiple times on a unit using Charge or Crushing Charge

SP Faction Bonus - Now corrected to the listed values

DESIGN

Skybreak Dragon - DEF to 2 from 3, Distichous: ST/SL now gives Rank 1 Auras

Frostfall Icewisp - HP to 42 from 48, Nora to 55 from 53

 

Minetest core is a volunteer effort, but the barrier to entry is too high. In a series of changes meant to lower that, we’re going to hold an event meant to help people understand the engine: A documentation sprint!

What: Documentation sprint for Minetest
Where: #minetest-doc on Freenode and http://dev.minetest.net
When: 2013-01-19 16:00 UTC to 2013-01-20 01:00 UTC

-MarkTraceur

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4243

In case you were wondering why there are no more new commits in our Mercurial repository since November:
As most of our developers were not content with Mercurial, we switched from Mercurial to git as our version control system.

The old Mercurial repository will soon be not available anymore, so make sure to check out the new git repository. PeterW updated our tutorials for building OpenClonk on Windows and explained the git workflow to those who are not familiar with git yet (or generally any distributed version control system).

I also adapted the looks of the OpenClonk git web frontend to fit into the rest of the site, it’s linked in our header. I expect that soon the autobuilds will follow and again be directly linked on the shortlog page.

Changes:

[Assorted]

• Started reworks on proper widescreen stretching support (unfinished still).
• Fixed several whitespace/tabulation issues.

[Skills]

• Removed outdated/non-functional types for forcefield, torch, skimmer, and rift skills.
• Removed several unused weapon flags.
• Removed CheckSafety method to determine player safety.
• WPT_ renamed to skillType for variable clarity.
• Removed user weapon damage types.
• Removed unused/unparsed weapon variables.

[UI]

• Temporarily removed redundent caching methods.
• Reduced internet filter types to one.

The Caption Contest is over, and now it's up to you to vote for your favorite and determine the winner! Below are your options:

1. Vartop

2. KageReya 

3. Zeetoois

4. Modoch

5. tehnicianu

 

Happy New Year!

Sorry there were no blog  posts in December. Late 2012 was a blur of card, wood, glue & burning the 4am oil to hit our Lume 2 filmshoot deadline. We did it! What’s more the footage really is looking great, and has exceeded our expectations. This has set us up nicely for 2013, and to complete Lume 2 for a Spring 2013 launch. Watch this space, hoping to put up some photos very soon of the shoot. Thanks to everyone who has been involved so far to get us to this stage.

Oh, and if that has made you think about taking a look at the original Lume, it’s for sale on Steam at a fabulous 75% discount  for the next few days.

Kath & Luke

From now on, all the deb-files in our APT-repository will be signed with the gpg-key, so you can always be sure that you downloaded deb-files that were actually created by us. To verify the signature of our deb-files, you will need to add our key by using this command:
apt-key add opengamestudio.key
If you use Synaptic instead of the command line, you can add the key in the “Authentication” tab of the “Software Sources” window.
You can download our key here: http://packages.opengamestudio.org/opengamestudio.key

SMC was registered 2003-01-01 at 17:44 on Sourceforge. Checkout the complete history of SMC and a Happy New Year!

Let’s make it better than the previous one.

I am pleased to announce the release of a new version of Knights.

This release adds a number of new Lua scripting features, and it also fixes a couple of bugs. See the download page for full details.

Happy new year to everyone

About Knights

Knights is a multiplayer dungeon bashing game. Players must explore randomly generated dungeons and compete to solve various quests. For more information please visit http://www.knightsgame.org.uk/.

Time for the traditional pre-Christmas release of pak128.Britain! 1.13 contains the following updates and additions: - lots of new ships - ironworks (wlindley) - gasworks (jamespetts) - new 4-wheel carriage graphics (jamespetts) - SIMUTRANS FRIED CHICKEN!!! (Sarlock) - numerous bugfixes Get it here. Merry Christmas and happy playing!

Gentoo ebuilds in opengamestudio-overlay were updated. You can find more information about this overlay in this post

As the year (perhaps the WORLD?!) draws to a close, we wanted to recap some of the latest news on what’s happening with Bastion and with us at Supergiant.

Bastion Announcer Pack for Dota 2
We’re very happy to reveal the Bastion Announcer Pack for Dota 2, Valve’s popular and incredibly deep team-based action strategy game!

Featuring more than 700 original lines of voiceover delivered by the voice of Bastion’s narrator, Logan Cunningham, the Bastion Announcer Pack for Dota 2 puts our special spin on one of the most complex and engaging competitive games we’ve ever played. A couple of us on team are huge fans of Dota 2 (the original DotA mod for Warcraft III is one of Supergiant cofounder Amir Rao’s all-time favorite games) so it was a real treat to contribute something to this game and collaborate with the amazing team at Valve. If you’d like to know more about Dota 2, visit the official web site.

Bastion for a Buck + More Stuff on Sale
For a limited time, Bastion is just $0.99 on the App Store! For good measure, this latest version of Bastion was just named iOS Game of the Year on Metacritic.com. Note: The iOS version of Bastion requires an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th generation, or iPad 2 or newer.

Also, the Steam version of Bastion is on sale as part of the Steam Holiday Sale.

Lastly, all Bastion merchandise in our online store is 20% off through the end of the year, including our new Scumbag Plushie.

Season’s Greetings from Supergiant
From all of us at Supergiant, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season, and best wishes for the year to come. Jen put the sentiment in the form of a wallpaper-sized visual here:

Thank you for your ongoing support. And a very special thanks to those of you who’ve been keeping tabs on us ever since before Bastion was released. This has been another great year for us — a year in which we got Bastion on Mac, Linux, the iPad, […]

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We proudly present… Click here to download the latest version! The latest update for Droid Assault not only includes Fancy line-of-sight lighting Wibbly wobbly shader effects Friendly droid targeting HUD display Improved level design Various tweaks and fixes Pot plants! but also features a completely new mission, just for Christmas, introducing… A completely new giant [...]

Just a quick Knights update here. I have been away from Knights for a while (sorry about that) but I do have a bit of spare time over Christmas and I intend to use it to make a new Knights release.

The plan is to include the following features (the numbers refer to Trac):

• Implement the “Monster Proposal“
• #215 – Add GetRespawnFunction to Lua API
• #203 – Error message or warning if Lua “prefix” forgotten
• #206 – Update manual to refer to new Boost version
• #164 – Ability to cycle each observer window independently

Hopefully I can get this done fairly quickly, as I know some people on the forum have been waiting for a new release for some time now…

After that I’d ideally like to get the map editor up and running again, as this would complement the Knights Lua scripting features nicely. This could really open the door for people to make new rooms or maybe even entire custom maps for Knights. That will be a task for next year though

About Knights

Knights is a multiplayer dungeon bashing game. Players must explore randomly generated dungeons and compete to solve various quests. For more information please visit http://www.knightsgame.org.uk/.

Okay! We hope, the world will not end in few days. Because if it will not end, then there will be Christmas holidays soon. And we like holidays a lot.
So, we made a new tileset for you, called “XMas”, and also a new version of OGS Mahjong. So, here are the changes:

• Game
  • camera initial zoom, pitch, yaw and position are now stored in a config file
  • new tileset – Xmas
  • new music track – East River (included in full vesrions only)
• Tileset builder
  • fixed tileset generation when relative file paths are used in a tep-file.
• Windows version
  • fixed some crashes related to Windows Vista’s UAC system.
• Deluxe version
  • higher resolution textures for the Room scene.
  • higher resolution textures for Eastern, Sports and Xmas tilesets.

Download links If you are using Desura, you can install or update the game with your desura-client.

The users of Ubuntu, Debian and Mint linux distributions can use our repository:

deb http://packages.opengamestudio.org stable ogs
apt-get install ogs-mahjong
or
apt-get install ogs-mahjong-full

Everyone else can download the game using the folowing links.

• For Windows (exe)(42.7 Mb)
• For Windows, with editor and additional music (exe)(122 Mb)
• For Linux64 (tar.lzma)(33.5 Mb)
• For Linux64, with editor and additional music (tar.lzma)(114 Mb)
• For Linux32 (tar.lzma)(33.5 Mb)
• For Linux32, with editor and additional music (tar.lzma)(114 Mb)

Hipoonios gave Sqrxz 2 on Amiga Classic a go and here is his Longplay-Video. The game plays like butter, doesn’t it? :)

The Pioneer development team are pleased to announce the release of Pioneer Alpha 29. This month we have a rewrite of the infoview, including per-mission screens and player name/face customiisations. Also we have over a hundred new factions with varying government types, and sector map updates to view them. Full changelog and builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (32 & 64-bit) are available from the download page.