Linux-Games.com announce

All sources available on Bitbucket

2011-01-06T19:15:00.002+01:00

The source code for all projects on this site is now available on bitbucket. If you want to contribute or grab a version with the latest changes, have a look at my bitbucket page.

New Penguin Command build for Windows

2008-11-27T12:12:00.002+01:00

The latest version of Penguin Command is now also available for Windows. Thanks go to Kein-Hong Man for creating and packaging this build.

Black-box 1.4.8 released

2008-10-05T11:43:00.003+02:00

This release fixes all known bugs. Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo, who did nearly all of the work on this release.

NuclearChess 1.0.0 released

2007-05-24T15:12:00.001+02:00

This release should fix all known stability problems. I'll make a Mac OS X build later this year, when I'll have an Intel iMac to test the universal binary on. I don't plan to create a windows build, so it would be great if someone did this for me. Let me know if you plan to create a windows build and I will try to help.

Bumprace 1.5.2 released

2006-12-14T19:01:00.000+01:00

A new Bumprace release has been uploaded for Linux and Mac OS X. An up-to-date Windows build is currently not planned, because I don't have a working working Windows build environment. It would be great if someone volunteered to compile and package a Windows release.

Castle-Combat 0.8.1 released

2006-06-20T19:57:00.000+02:00

It has been a long time, but a new Castle-Combat release finally sees the light of the day. Quite a lot has been changed under the hood, so there might be some new bugs in it. If you encounter any problems, it would be great if you let me know.

Vote for a Starcontrol sequel

2006-04-17T23:24:00.000+02:00

It might be possible to convince Activision to publish a new Starcontrol sequel, made by the same people who brought us the great Starcontrol II. Head over to http://sc2.sourceforge.net/petition/petition.php and help!

Also digging this story might help.

jsNumbers released

2006-01-05T20:09:00.000+01:00

In my constant evaluation of nice things to write games with, I've tried to write a game in JavaScript. I'm quite happy with the result, which is a version of my numbers game (previously available for the Zaurus and Agenda PDAs), which is playable inside most non-IE browsers. Please give it a try and let me know what you think of it.

Castle-Combat 0.8.0 released for Linux, MacOS X and Windows

2005-10-13T19:19:00.000+02:00

It's finally there, the 0.8.0 release of castle-combat, which replaces the old 0.7.x releases. Please give this release some thorough testing and let me know how it works for you.

Bumprace 1.5.1 released

2005-07-26T12:39:00.000+02:00

Even more bug fixes and cleanups in this release.

Bumprace 1.5.0 released

2005-07-03T15:19:00.000+02:00

This release includes a lot of small code cleanups and fixes and a new hard level set which can be activated via the --levelset 1 command line switch (If anyone wants to add a nice level set selection menu, go ahead). If anything is broken, or I forgot to apply your patch, please contact me as soon as possible.

Removed Timewarp for linux page

2005-05-24T17:04:00.000+02:00

The "Timewarp for Linux" page on this site was completely outdated, so I decided to remove it. For those of you who are still interested, have a look at these links: TW homepage, TW forum.

TimeWarp is now seperated into three projects: classic TimeWarp (mostly not worked upon), TimeWarp: Light (an attempt to clean up the classic TimeWarp code and create a real 'adventure' mode, like Star Control II) and TimeWarpX, a mission based TW game.

I also strongly recommend the Star Control II port to modern operating systems, which uses the original source code and has just been updated.

Black-box 1.4.7 released

2005-05-22T20:10:00.000+02:00

All SDL_mixer and SDL_image code has been removed from black-box in this release. This solves all known gcc compilation problems. The bundling of these libraries was useful when the first black-box version was released, but is completely unnecessary, now. If black-box compiled fine for you, then you can ignore this release.

Castle-Combat 0.8.0a2 released

2005-03-19T12:24:00.000+01:00

The second alpha release of the python rewrite brings it a lot closer to the real 0.8.0 release, which will completely replace the 0.7.x branch. The main points on my TODO for the next version are support for three and four players as well as the great Conquer mode. As always, please contact me immediately, if you have any problems with the latest release.

Penguin-Command 1.6.9 is out

2005-03-14T22:41:00.000+01:00

The only change is a fix for a crash in the options menu and an updated Mac OS X binary.

First release of the Castle-Combat rewrite

2005-02-01T22:32:00.000+01:00

Version 0.8.0a1 is out for public testing as source tarball (no compilation required, so you should be able to run it immediately if you have pygame and twisted installed) and as Mac OS X application bundle. It still misses some features of the old implementation, but that is not suprising, since not a single line of code has been reused. Have a loot at my TODO if you're interested in my plans for the next releases, or to see what's still missing.
This is my first project written in python, so I might have made a mistake while putting together the distribution. If you experience any problems, please do not hesitate to contact me. Of course, all other types of suggestions/comments are also welcome.

Fixed site rendering in IE

2005-01-24T19:41:00.000+01:00

I finally managed to work around all strange IE bugs that showed up on this site by switching back to a table based layout and adding a display:inline to one class to avoid the double margin bug. It took much too long, but it should finally work. If you still have problems, please drop me a line.

Castle-Combat will be rewritten from scratch

2004-12-21T11:31:00.000+01:00

As some of you may have noticed, the Castle-Combat network-code doesn't work reliably. The network implementation has some serious design flaws, which can't be fixed without a rewrite. Unfortunately, the network code isn't cleanly seperated from the game logic, so any network changes would cause changes in other parts of the program. I finally decided to solve this problem by rewriting the whole game from scratch.

I will also use different tools this time to increase my development speed (and to have more fun). The new implementation will be written in python, using the libraries pygame (SDL-python bindings) and twisted (networking).

I just opend the castle-combat discussion forums on soureforge, so if you have any questions or comments, please leave a message there.

Penguin Command 1.6.8 released

2004-11-05T18:36:00.000+01:00

Yet another bug-fix release. Binaries for MacOS X and updated source code have been uploaded. Please report any problems!

SFont 2.03 released

2004-09-11T16:52:00.000+02:00

This version includes an improved and cleaned-up version of the SFont C++ wrapper (Thanks go to Lion Vollnhals). The pure C implementation remains unchanged.

Web site problems in IE

2004-06-10T18:02:00.000+02:00

The website isn't rendered correctly in Internet Explorer, yet. I tested
the website only in IE for MacOS and the results were pretty good, so I
assumed the Windows IE would render it good, too. Unfortunately, this is
not the case. I corrected the worst problems, but there's still some
work to do. In the mean time, the current site should be at least
usable.

Newsletter and XML-Feed

2004-06-09T15:16:00.000+02:00

You can now subscribe to a Yahoo-groups newsletter containing all news
items from this page. An atom XML-feed is also
available.

Web site redesign

2004-06-09T11:51:00.000+02:00

I rewrote most of the html code using css, integrated blogger as news and changed a bunch of other things. This greatly improves this site's maintainability and I hope the new design increases the readability, too. Any comments are appreciated.