Before you look at the pictures: I can only recommend following the FGD Game Planet and Dev Planet. That is all ;).
Games
CONS
CONS is a NOOB FRIENDLY!!! roguelike written in Lisp. It is 'friendly' because the amount of possible actions is low and they are all tooltip-explained in the main window. I also like the color scheme and simple look. Follow the developer on his blog. I know I do.
Xenowar
Xenowar is a simple-gfx squad tactics game and it runs on Windows and Android. Didn't try it yet.
skunks is a "3D game with cars, stunts and software rendering, based on Open Dynamics Engine" by Matei Petrescu, who also brought us simple3d/simcar.
Contests
SDLTutorials.com is hosting a little top-down car racing game contest (runs until 31. Dec)Game On 2010 is an open web game contest started by Mozilla Labs. Deadline: January 11, 2011. [Rules]
Assets
OpenGameArt is getting bigger and bigger and nicer and nicer and their forums cover more and more topics. Hopefully one day they (the forums) will have a better usable design :) (this probably depends mostly on Drupal and Drupal extensions).BlendSwap on the other hand is not getting that much attention as I imagined it would after finally introducing free licenses.
UFO:AI license statistics
UFO:AI wants to legalize it! They seek freely-licensed textures and images to replace their "license unknown" files. And they have statistics and graphs! Also their latest news cover changes to their level editor in screenshot form.
Engines
Burster is bringing Blender into the browser. Not stable.jMonkeyEngine's team is working towards a visual SDK. They recently released alpha 3.
The developer 2D LWJGL engine Slick is making first Steps of porting to Android. Meanwhile the developer of Android platformer Replica Island blogs about development for that platform.
SDL Multi-touch, gestures and android port are some features added during Google Summer of Code. [source]
- In development since 2002 (released in August 2010)
- Runs on Windows and Linux, a prototype for mobile devices exists
- The free libraries ODE (physics) and OpenAL (sound) are supported
