Tomorrow morning we'll be making a major announcement about an unprecedented collaboration between some major free culture organizations (and OGA!) toward the creation of FOSS games.  Watch this space! :)

Hey folks!

We've had a big influx of art lately, which is awesome, but we need to make sure the archive remains clean and useful for people using it, which means I need to tighten the the guidelines on what constitutes art that is useful for games.  If the art you post doesn't meet these guidelines, admins will leave a comment and give you a few days to fix the issue or respond with a plan to fix it, if it will take more time than that.  So, without further ado, here are the guidelines.

We're changing our site policy slightly with respect to anonymous comments.

Edit: It's been confirmed that this is definitely not happening.

Hey folks!

If anyone can help out with this, I'd appreciate it.  Given the reaction to the recent halt on Terraria development, I suspect it might be possible to gather a "liberation fund" to pay the Terraria devs to open the source and content of Terraria.  In order for this to be even remotely possible, we need the terraria devs to at least be aware of the idea.

I wrote a blog entry on FreeGamer about the MegaUpload shutdown, and how we might be able to get something good out of it.  It's probably preaching to the choir here on OGA, but if you're interested, have a look:

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2012/01/silver-lining-of-megaupload-shutdo...

I'm not going to say a whole lot about this because for the most part I'm preaching to the choir here.  But, if you live in the United States, before you do anything else today, you need to contact your representatives in congress about SOPA and PIPA.

If you're not familiar with these bills, reddit has a good overview.

I've made some progress on the Orange Engine, my 2D RPG engine+editor.  You can read about how to download and compile it here (as well as see a couple Youtube videos of it in action):

https://gitorious.org/orange-engine/pages/Home

If you're running Windows, you can download a pre-built copy here:

http://opengameart.org/content/orange-engine-pre-alpha-for-windows

I've just made a blog post over on Free Gamer about the lack of a strong copyleft for artists, and a potential solution (which I'm currently arguing in favor of in a discussion on the CC community mailing list).  As usual, I love a good controversy and I'd be interested in hearing your comments.  Here's the link:

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-we-need-better-copyleft-for-ar...

Please reply to me there so I don't have to keep track of the replies in two places. :)

WTactics is currently offering a chance to have your likeness on a WTactics card in order to raise funds for the continued development of thier project.  From their website:

Give our artists a picture of you or your beloved one and become a part of the game! The artist will create a nice portrait with your chosen class, clothing and equipment, making it an everlasting part of our game and the open source communities, turning it into an immortal memory.