Linked by Rahul on Sun 8th Feb 2009 04:42 UTC
Blood Frontier is a hot new free and open source first person shooter with original artwork and based on the Cube 2 engine. Phoronix takes a look "Blood Frontier is based upon the Sauerbraten engine and takes advantage of the features like a 6-direction height field world model, real-time map editing, light-maps, shader-based lighting effects, integrated physics support, and a particle engine. Like Cube and Cube 2, Blood Frontier uses OpenGL and SDL, which makes it multi-platform friendly with binaries for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X." Read more 
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Yes, the trouble with game production is that the greatest graphics engine in the world won't do squat without vast amounts of high quality artwork to back it up. The open source world doesn't have the infrastructure for such work. Lots of coders, few artists.
The only solution is to use more imaginative game designs which don't rely on this level of investment. 3D should probably be avoided altogether unless you're procedurally generating all your textures, models and animations.
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It seems like a decent project - but the sad thing is that even though they seem to use a kick-ass engine, the screenshots still look like Quake 2. Yes, nicer textures, and some reflections here and there, but in all essence, it's still the same thing.