In response to a thread over at freegamedev, we've made some major changes over the past couple of days to how texture browsing works.  We've unpacked all of the texture archives on OGA and made the textures individually browse-able by category.  A big thank you goes out to the folks who have been helping manually categorize the nearly 4,000 texture files in the arcnive. :)

Note that there are a few more changes coming -- expect some navigation improvements in the near future, along with the ability to filter textures by license and resolution.

So, what are you waiting for?  You can use the new texture browsing interface by going to Browse -> Textures on the main menu. :)

Bart

OpenGameArt.org is very proud to announce that we are collaborating with the Free Software Foundation and the Creative Commons to bring you the Liberated Pixel Cup, a two month long summer contest about creating a consistent set of art and then making awesome games with it!

As you might imagine, this is big news for OGA -- there's no better way for us to further our mission of bringing artists and developers together to make awesome free and open source games than having the opportunity to work together with the CC and the FSF towards making that happen!

So, what are you waiting for?  Go, check out the site, and join us on IRC at #liberatedpixelcup on irc.freenode.net (click here to chat from your browser)!

Tomorrow morning we'll be making a major announcement about an unprecedented collaboration between some major free culture organizations (and OGA!) toward the creation of FOSS games.  Watch this space! :)

Seeing as how traffic is starting to pick up lately, I've decided that it's time to get serious about user interface design and start being consistent with all the professional file download sites up there.  Specifically, as an internet user, when I go somewhere to download a file, I expect to be bombarded with a barrage of misleading download links to shovelware, malware, and other crap I don't want.  The real download link, as we all know, should be small and off in some non-obvious place.  This is a guiding principle of the design of modern download sites, and it's time I stopped ignoring it.  Here's my latest design mockup (click the image to enlarge):

The OpenGameArt.org staff hopes that you enjoy this new feature!

Happy April Fools' Day! :)