Free sludge for all
Written by Andrew MacCormack -
The excellent Scripting Language for Unhindered Development of a Gaming Environment (SLUDGE) is now available for free from Hungry Software. This toolkit was used to make such renowned underground titles as Out of Order, Frasse and the Peas of Kejick and The Game That Takes Place on a Cruise Ship.
The newest freeware release of the SLUDGE engine has all the functionality previously available only to registered users. Movie playback, scrolling, parallax backgrounds, anti-aliasing, light maps and speech packs are some of the extras now bundled in to version 1.7.