Hey folks.

If you've been around OGA for while, you may remember that we ran ads briefly in the past.  The ads were through google adsense, and once I filtered out all of the skeezy ones, revenue dropped to about 60 cents per day.  I figured it wasn't worth $20/month to have an ugly ad up on the main page, so I took it down.

Let me preface by saying that I think the GPL is a great license, and copyleft is an interesting concept for building community art.

Usually when I release art I choose CC-BY-SA as the license. I'm starting to question whether that's practical for several reasons.

First, I assume many projects have to just ignore CC-BY-SA art when browsing OGA. Many of our personal FLOSS games have CC-BY-SA art, but outside of our circles it's probably not very common.

I've made some updates to OGA over the past couple of days that might interest people:

20 days until the 0.1 release of my foss game project Ancient Beast! https://www.facebook.com/events/463052057070590/

This is a somewhat playable version of the game, really early, pre-alpha developer preview. Hotseat only, lacking a lot of creatures, animations and polishing. Don't expect too much, anyway, we're happy to be breaking the ice gameplay coding wise ;-)

Okay. After about 4 days of work and 30 days of dreams I can tell you what I've been working on.

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Hi,

A few days ago, Nooskewl Games released Monster RPG 2 under the Give It Your Own License, License (which lets you re-license their works under any licence). You can download the source, which includes the assets, but it's >200 megabytes and the assets are scattered across different folders.

I thought I could contribute to the community by uploading some of the assets to this website, but I've never done that before and I wanted to check with you folks first:

So I noticed some of the considerate art submissions by http://opengameart.org/users/downdate of late and I also noticed the Attribution Instructions, such as the one in http://opengameart.org/content/sorry-you-lost-stamp, make the CC-BY 3.0 license seem a little shaky.

(I am not a lawyer)

heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-sorceress-town-hd is amazing work based on (inspired by?) town_sorceress. Compare-in-one-image: http://i.imgur.com/ARugW.jpg

I'm looking at Commons:Fan_art and it looks like copyright might be a non-problem.

Open-source turn-based strategy game UFO: Alien Invasion is in the running to be named SourceForge's December Project of the Month. The poll closes in a day and we're not far behind the leaders (11%, 23 votes).

You need a Twitter account to vote, which has put a big dampener on our support. But if you've got an account please go and vote for us.

Hi everyone,

I use assets off this site for my small learning projects all the time.  However, I feel guilty as I have nothing to give you all back in return.  I work mainly in Unity3D and would be happy to give out fully functional prefabs, game code, or anything that people will find useful.

I was thinking the format to these contributions would be the prefab/scripts/etc. zipped up with a write up about what each prefab/object is and then link to the source code repository (probably github or gist) where you can get the latest if you want it.