State of Open Gaming 5 (May)
May 1, 2010
April was a big month for the Year of Living Free. We now have:
- a Twitter page and
- a Forum, hosted by the good people of 1KM1KT.
In addition, we broke the hundred games mark. Links to all 137 open games are available on our most important page, the List of Libre Games. I’ve reorganised this page, and it’s worth checking it out if you haven’t visited it in the last fortnight or so.
A more in-depth update after the break.
This page has had a complete revamp and I highly recommend checking it out. I thank John H Kim for his Free RPG List which I trawled for many open games.
There are too many new games here to link to individually, but here’s a list:
Open Game License
Microlite20, Slayer of Dragon, Two Worlds, True20, Star Blades
Creative Commons
C.O.R.E., Inuma, Tiny Triangles, The Faces of Angels, Saga, RUGS, Shadows, The Genesys System, Ghostlight, Midgard, Jazz 4.0, Legendary Lives.
GNU Licences
Hyper, JAGS, Osprey, YAGS.
Own licence
Stories System, DragonNet RPG, SKETCH System, Destiny System, Four Colors al Fresco, Kiss Roleplaying System.
Public domain
Enchanted Realms
OpenContent License
Draft, Epitome, Grey Lotus, Lycadian.
The games listed below are new, but I haven’t included any new games already mentioned above.
d20 Games
Animalball Melee, Simple 20, Castles & Crusades, Core Elements, Sweet20.
FUDGE and FATE
And Bake for 15 Minutes FUDGE
Retroclones
DQ Open Source
Miniatures Games
New open games from Free Wargames Rules: d20 Open Mass Combat System, Astral Dreams, Dark Millennium, Contagion.
New stuff:
- Yahoo Image Search (can be restricted to only return images that are under a Creative Commons licence).
- Two open source graphic design programs: GIMP and Inkscape.
- Two fonts: Tagesschrift and Yanone Kaffeesatz.
- OpenRPG, an online tabletop for role-playing.
New Pages
- vs Monsters
- Altars & Archetypes
- You Are Badass
- List of Open Licences
- List of Gratis Games
- A World of Wonder
Changes to Existing Pages
Easter Egg and three new Dungeons2Go.
