Gamefest is going slow, but overall quite a bit of progress has been made in the toughest stage, the qualifications. Many registered participants were playing "hard to get" more than any other of the games we had in the gamefest, which ultimately resulted in many forfeits.

Now this is where we stand:

For a while an unlikely entry in this year's FPS-dominated Freedomware Gamefest, Armagetron Advanced is coming up strong! It is the most unique of all games we have a tournament for. New players could mistake it for "snake in 3D", but it is so much more.

Blood pumping, action packed, fast paced and merciless are just some of the words we can use to describe these two incredible first person shooters that are 100% Free Software.

OpenArena is the first project to successfully create completely free game art and data to go with the Quake III Arena engine whose source code was released by ID as Free Software last year, completing a fully free game that is not only as good as original Quake III Arena, but builds on it even further.

Tremulous is probably the biggest among Freedomware Gamefest 2007 tournaments. It is a rather unique kind of a Free first person shooter (FPS) as the game involves a war between two races, humans and an alien race whose name still remains unknown. The alien race is quite different from humans, and reminds quite a bit of aliens you could see in Alien vs. Predator movies and games.

We are excited to make the final preliminary announcement of Freedomware Gamefest 2007, a first international online event featuring a multitude of tournaments as part of a single happening and with games that are only Free Software.

It has been founded to promote Free Software gaming as well as gaming on Free Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux, to show that the gaming world at large is not limited to proprietary offerings on proprietary platforms such as Microsoft Windows.

Welcome to the Freedomware Gamefest 2007 web site. We have put together a gaming festival comprised of Free Software games as a fun way for us to promote what we like to call Freedomware. Check out the quick links on the left. Read the FAQ. Check out the promotional videos below! Battle for Freedom by signing up or adding a Gamefest badge to your website or blog today!

See you very soon!