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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Easily the best: Dungeon Crawl https://crawl.develz.org/ OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/ FreeCiv http://freeciv.org/ Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/

Big ups for FreeCiv. I've spent more than a few minutes in that.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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post #24

The Ur‐Quan Masters, better known as Star Control 2. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ According to Wikipedia: > Released to critical acclaim, Star Control II is widely viewed today as one of the greatest PC games ever made, and has appeared on numerous publications lists of the greatest video games of all time. It was open sourced in 2002, and is available in most package repos (as “uqm”).

This looks pretty cool.

Does anyone know how to get sound working on WSL1 + VcXsrv?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Various old skool text adventure games are open source (-ish, in some cases). If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic/technology for turning objects into other things by adding/removing letters from their name: > Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from…

One of the Linux-Libre maintainers has a good chunk of free as in freedom libre text adventure games.

https://jxself.org/git/

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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post #119

bzflag! It carries this nice 90s-feeling in a multiplayer online world.

BZFlag is an amazingly addictive game (if you can find an active server). It is tricky to get the hang of it (jumping a tank while doing a 180 turn to land and fire a shot at a pursuer!). https://www.bzflag.org/

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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post #279

Haven't seen these two so thought I'd add them to the list. Minetest is a block building game engine (like minecraft) built around the idea mods add all content. There are a bunch of games built for it, and last I checked a active modding community. https://www.minetest.net/ The other is AlephOne, a engine to play all the Marathon games (story FPS, pre-halo bungie made games) along with a bunch more community created…

Is there any well-documented configuration of Minetest that provides as much fun as Minecraft?

as much fun is very subjective.

there are hundreds of add-ons enabling various features.

which minecraft features in particular are you thinking of?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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post #297
post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any well-documented configuration of Minetest that provides as much fun as Minecraft?

as much fun is very subjective. there are hundreds of add-ons enabling various features. which minecraft features in particular are you thinking of?

Just in general, that there's a lot of stuff to do. I can make a base and slowly do various upgrades, try to finish the game as quickly as possible, or just fool around in creative mode.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Screeps, the open source game for programmers. It’s really, really hard though. https://screeps.com/ Side note: I don’t think downvotes should be for comments you “don’t like” or even “disagree with”. Downvotes should be used to discourage people from posting bad content, but on HN we try to be a bit more objective about what “bad” is rather than “I don’t like it”.

i have read elsewhere explicitly stating that downvotes may be used as a sign of disagreement.

that said, in a topic like this, can there be any bad comments? (other than someone throwing insults at a game or recommending a game that is not actually FOSS?)

so why not use downvotes for games that you played but didn't like?

let the most popular games rise to the top.

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