Space station 13. Not only the game itself (which is unique) but the decentralized community of many independent servers developing their own versions of the game in parallel and copying successful features from each other.
Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#192Why, IVAN of course!
Play it here: https://attnam.github.io/ivan-050-wasm/
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just installed the Kittens game on my phone. That may have been a mistake. I am already hooked.
How to install it on the phone?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuclearuni...
I'm not sure how different it is to the git version but there are always recent updates.
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#194Shameless self promotion: Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/ I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it. I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in…
This is pretty amazing, thanks for sharing!
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#195Space Station 14 [0], which is the remake and spiritual successor to Space Station 13, mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
SS13 is a wonderful game, but it's so old and its codebase is so messy that people have been trying to remake it for years. Attempts had mostly gone nowhere until all of a sudden SS14 took off with a few dozen OSS developers. Now they're making fantastic progress (see [1]) and have a game that isn't just playable, but enjoyable! (Not to mention being almost completely on-par with SS13 at this point, with several distinct maps and hundreds of items ported over.)
[0]: https://spacestation14.io [1]: https://spacestation14.io/post/22-05-25-progress-report-34/
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#196MegaGlest, Warzone 2100, OpenArena, Mineclone2, Xmoto, SuperTux, Supertuxkart, 0ad, Pingus, TuxRacer, Hedgewars, TeeWorlds
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#197Apologies in advanced for not submitting a game. Does anybody feel an unbreakable urge to just break from free of the dreary day job and write games for fun each time you see a HN post like this? My fantasy is to just go and Browserize a game (and not just by wasming it). Gaaaaah the tragedy of limited time!
Yeah I dabble a bit in game dev every now and then. Released 2 small games, but nothing spectacular. Gonna keep at it whenever time allows, more fun than my day job ...
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#198Pioneer Space Sim - https://pioneerspacesim.net/
This is an Open-Source remake of Frontier Elite 2 AND Frontier First Encounters.
I only discovered this game a few months ago and only put of a couple of hours into the game so far. For me it takes the best bits of both FE2 and FFE, modernises the UI, improves on the graphics (some of the developers were GL/D3D mod developers of Elite - Frontier). It manages to keep the essential ingredients that made FE2 good and picking out the few extra nice bits from FFE.
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#199IVAN ( https://github.com/Attnam/ivan ) A rougelike where you can have your legs severed, pray to a god to have them regenerated and have them regenerated as bananas. Edit: you can try it in the browser! https://attnam.github.io/ivan-050-wasm/
Oh man, I haven't played IVAN in a decade! That was a lot of fun back in the day, I wonder if I still suck at it :).
Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#200Xonotic[1] is excellent (Named Nexuiz in the past, but that name was essentially stolen). Hours of Quake like fun with beefed up graphics and a bunch of interesting gameplay twists. One the mobile side there is Shattered Pixel Dungeon[2], also to be found on F-Droid. The polish behind that project is insane for something FOSS and the hours I put into it are something to be embarrassed about. [1] https://xonotic.org/…
For anyone wondering, Xonotic is still very actively developed despite the lack of releases.
If you want to run latest without compiling yourself: https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/-/wikis/Autobuilds