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Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed
Alienkillerrace writes "Linux.com has reviewed the brand new release of Alien Arena 2007, giving it a glowing review. 'New Alien Arena 6.10 blows away its FPS competition' claims that Alien Arena is now the very best of the freeware FPS games, surpassing even Tremulous."
There was a football mod for the original Quake. You had to kick a head (complete with blood trails) to the other goal. As I recall, players were armed with axes, to allow fouls.
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getting it for free does though. Especially when you spend the money on weed and play while high.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
After yesterday's CmdrTaco interview, it sounds like he's locked in a constant struggle with the marketing department. Perhaps this was a battle lost? Or maybe their evil mind-control rays are finally starting to work?
Nice post.
The only disagreement I have is with your soup kitchen approach to software development, specifically Mozilla. This isn't the Depression. If this is the Software Renaissance, commercial reward from the hands of another's art should not be what you seek.
What about the eleventy billion people working on free modifications for commercial games? Yes, plenty of that is Bad Art, but there are some fantastic bits of work out there.
The motivations aren't purely financial, either - I've seen a lot of people get jobs as the result of mod work, but I've also seen people already employed in the games industry contribute stuff back to free mods. I think half of Natural Selection was built that way - it acquired fantastic voice acting, music, audio, animations, models and textures as a result. Altruism? Kinda. The whole place seems built on old boys' networks.
So if you want good game art? Stop mucking about in the world of open source and programming, and try looking at the game mods world!
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Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
Controls: 5 pts.
Graphics: 5 pts.
Sound: 3 pts.
Music: 2 pts.
Story: 5 pts.
Multiplayer (if applicable): 5 pts.
Runs on Linux: 50,000 pts.
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You are kidding. Quake was unplayable after the source was released. People could compile in their own hardcoded aimbots!
If you have it, you don't need it.
If you need it, you don't have it.
If you have it, you need more of it.
If you have more of it, you don't need less of it!
You need it to get it, and you certainly need it to get more of it, but if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you?
You can share it, sure.
You can even stockpile it if you'd like.
But you can't fake it.
Flaunting it, needing it, wishing for it... the point is, if you've never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
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