Happy 30th Birthday, Escape Velocity

It seems like almost yesterday, but Escape Velocity is now 30 years old! Originally released on the Cinco de Mayo in 1996 by the now defunct Ambrosia Software, it led to two sequels with Override and the most popular Escape Velocity Nova. Escape Veloci…

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Unciv: 4.20.4

4.20.4
modding: Ignore ruleset-specific errors when unique is disabled in this ruleset
By SomeTroglodyte:

Hide religion- or espionage-specific demands when disabled
Fixed NPE when Espionage Screen is used to move a spy to an unknown civ’s city

By unc…

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Flare: Flare 1.15

Flare is back with a new look! Let’s dive right into what’s new: New Graphics Version 1.15 introduces remastered graphics that are intended to look best on screens between 1080p and 1440p. Everything, from the characters, to the map tilesets,

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DCSS: A New DCSS Server for the US West Coast

Following up on the previous announcement, we have another new server to announce! This new server is located in Oregon, USA at crawl.roguelikes.gg, and is officially known CRG. Like CBRG, this server is owned by tarballqc, who has generously agreed to host it both to improve ping times for players on the US west coast and […]

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Thrive: Progress Update 5/02/2026

Despite this work week once again only having 4 days, there is still a significant number of patch notes. In new mechanics, we have the visualization side of the cell adjacency system (the back-end was already included last week). Whenever you have a cell type selected to place somewhere, or are hovering over a cell with the cursor, any ad…

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Castle Game Engine: More April News: training timer demo, delayed view changes, URL processing on save, how to easier install web compiler, notes on copyright and AI, in progress: audio on web

We already announced some new features in April (PLY, InlineGeometry, web: URL parameters and TCastleDownload). Below we report more goodies 🙂 Enjoy! Check out Training Timer 2: Zero Time project by Serufu Yua, available for Windows and Android. Downloads on itch.io and source code on GitHub (thank you!). See also ready UI list box components …

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Libre Arts: GSoC2026: what to expect

Google has just published the list of students accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2026 program.
Some of the teams usually participating are off this year: Krita and Inkscape are temporarily out of mentors. Let’s take a look at the rest of th…

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Unciv: 4.20.3

4.20.3
Custom maps are retained when starting a new game from an old one
Spies ‘evacuate’ correctly from destroyed cities
Spectators can see the building list again
By unciv-loof:

Confirmation popup before breaking promise not to spy
ConstructImprovem…

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ZeroK: Cold Take #40 – The Retreat Range Bonus

The retreat range bonus was a quirk of game physics that started causing problems six years ago. Removing it would break some basic rules of Zero-K, but something had to be done.Read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/334920/view/51749295…

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Castle Game Engine: Web target: getting URL parameters, downloading resources using TCastleDownload

We add 2 new features to our web target: New methods to read URL through which your page was accessed, and get query parameters of this URL. The use-case is creating webpages that react to URL parameters, e.g. expose a model viewer on URL like https://viewer.castle-engine.io/?url=http://example.org/model.gltf (working version of this coming soon!). Use these methods: …

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