SoulFu

SoulFu or "Secret of Ultimate Legenday Fantasy: UNLEASHED" is a beautiful, yet tongue-in-cheek adventure game that gives homage to many classic titles such as NetHack. The graphics are wonderfully 3D rendered and it incorporates a spinning camera to get a good view of the fighting action. This multiplayer indie title has been released by Aaron Bishop Games, creator of Egoboo. While it is currently a Windows game title, SoulFu has been written with the SDL graphics engine. Today, the Windows version 1.4 was released with the entire source code for the purpose of community efforts to create a Linux port. As Aaron says, "Let the porting begin!", and he has also included SoulFu development tools for additional modifications. A couple people have already compiled the code onto Linux and begun making modifications to the NPC artificial intelligence. [Update 06-18: There is now an official Linux client! Nice work to those who contributed.] We've been excitedly watching in the #soulfu IRC channel today as fans have been laying the groundwork with CSV repositories and outlining thoughts on development efforts. The questioning of licensing stands out, however, and we hope the code will be released under an OSS license as user contributions are incorporated into the base code. LGW will continue to report it here as new events unfold.