Author Archives: Marko Kaiser

Interview with the maker of the ZOD engine

Gaming on Linux made an interview with Michael Bog, the developer of the ZOD engine. Read here: http://www.gamingonlinux.info/chill/index.php?threads/interview-with-michael-bok-developer-of-the-zod-engine.416/#post-1562

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The Zod engine

Homepage The Zod Engine is an open source remake of the 1996 game Z by the Bitmap Brothers written in C++ using the SDL library for Linux / Windows / Etc. The engine is a multiplayer oriented game where as … Continue reading

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More localized linux games

Homepage Clemens Schulz contacted me to talk about his project, the MLLG project, which is an open source project for the Linux operating system providing game installers with localized game data. Uploading of existing Loki installers is in progress and … Continue reading

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Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011

linuX-gamers.net is taking part for the fourth time now. I made a little video over kids gaming at our booth. World of Padman 1.5.1 is attracting them

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Q3Rally – a rally game based on the ioquake engine

Reto from Holarse mentioned this game in their forum. So I was curios about that game and took a look at the homepage. See this little video of Perle, the developer of this game:

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Planeshift 0.5.6 out

Homepage The new version of Planeshift has been released at February, 22nd. See an excerpt of the changelog: GUI: * A huge amount of fixes and improvements to the windowing system (paws) and mouselook management * Improvements to weather support … Continue reading

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Chemnitz Linuxdays 2011 upcoming

OK folks I’m sorry for the site being offline the last week. Some server upgrade did not went as smooth as it should. Next weekend Tobias and me will participate at the Chemnitz Linux Days 2011. We are presenting games … Continue reading

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Zero Ballistics 2.0 out now

Homepage Quanticode has released version 2.0 of this tiny tank game. The full version features: * Three levels set in an alpine environment * One arena Level * Three different main weapons, and three secondary weapons * Six different skills … Continue reading

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Heroes of Newerth 2.0 released

S2Games have released version 2.0 of the Heroes of Newerth game. Take a look at this great changelog.

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Alien Arena 2011 released

Homepage Alien Arena version 7.50 has been released recently. Some of the new features in this release: Ragdoll physics using the Open Dynamics physics engine. Revamped in-game IRC client. GNU AutoTools for Linux/Unix/MacOS installation. True Type Font support. Two brand … Continue reading

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