FreeGameDev.net
FreeGameDev.net is a network of free games and free games development related services started by Charles Goodwin. The domain name was registered on August 9th, 2009.[1]
Forum[edit]
A forum was part of Free Gamer. It was hosted by freeforums.com but lost many posts when it was very active.[2] As a consequence Ghoulsblade and Hagish offered to host a new forum.[3]
This new forum slowly evolved to FreeGameDev.net after Charlie registered the domain name FreeGameDev.net for it and became less active. On the other hand Ghoulsblade and Hagish started building projects around the forum, for example FreeArtSearch and Planet FreeGameDev.net.[4]
Forum projects[edit]
Many of the forum's features were created by Goodwin:
- Project Open: Project Open is a sub forum created to facilitate the effort to open source proprietary freeware games.
- Forum hosting: There are subforums for some game projects. Current projects include Fortress, irrlamb, Java Classic Role Playing Game, Stress Free Zone, Me_Programmer, OpenDungeons Hardwar, EasyRPG, and Fortress are examples of hosted projects.
- Free Gamer Awards 2007: The awards were started to highlight the best games of the free gaming world.[5]
Planet[edit]
The planet aggregate RSS feeds from free game development blogs. It went online on October 19th, 2007.[6]
Developer Wiki[edit]
A wiki about free software game development. It is a joint effort between FreeGameDev.net and Unix Game Development.
Wiki watch[edit]
This planet aggregate RSS feeds from free game wiki and projects. It was setup on February 25th, 2008.[7]
Art search[edit]
Search FOSS arts across game projects. It was developed by ghoulsblade.
Common Media Project[edit]
This project aim to create thematic media packages for game developers. The project was proposed by forum user and artist bwschram on August 23th, 2009[8]
Free game database[edit]
Unlike most other game database sites such as the Linux Game Tome, this database is going to feature exclusively free games. It is being developed by Michalg.
The idea originated from a thread that was discussing the possibility of the collaborating with the Tigsource Database. Eventually it was split off into its own thread.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ Freegamer post on the domain name accessed on August 28th, 2009
- ↑ Old Free Gamer forum (archived 2007-05-22)
- ↑ Post on the old forum about the data loss (lost)
- ↑ Forum post about FreeGameDev.net's development
- ↑ Free Gamer Awards 2007
- ↑ Forum thread on planet.freegamedev.net accessed on August 24th, 2009
- ↑ Forum thread on freegamedev.net WikiWatch accessed on August 24th, 2009
- ↑ forum thread on Common Media Project accessed on August 26th, 2009
- ↑ forum thread on Trigsource accessed on August 23th, 2009
External links[edit]
- FreeGameDev.net forum
- (old) FreeGameDev.net forum (registration still possible as of 2023-01-01)
- FreeGameDev.net Planet
- Free Gamer IRC channel on self hosted irc server, see more