Ask HN: Favourite open source game? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by ninjin » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:28 AM UTC

OpenTTD is probably my favourite, but let me put a classic that I really enjoyed into the mix: XBattle [1]. Real-time strategy with an emphasis on area of control and supply line “flow”. All while “abusing” X11 to get multi-player support. It gave me many hours of joy at the Solaris boxes we had at university in the mid 00s. My only concern would be whether it counts as open source with its home-made license [2].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20011128105604/http://cns-web.bu...

[2]: https://paste.sr.ht/~ninjin/fdd615d6e32e1316014dece892128697...

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

#32

Post by prakashqwerty » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:34 AM UTC

Mindustry https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

#33

Post by assbuttbuttass » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:35 AM UTC

I'll mention nethack just because no one has said it yet

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by 0des » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:37 AM UTC

chess!

I'll also take street craps as a backup.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by t-3 » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #9

Battle for Wesnoth! As an aside, does anyone have any sort of insight into how these open source games come about? Is it the force of one individual mostly or is there a place to find likeminded gamedevs for a project?

A lot of the older projects got started in the days when webforums, IRC, and Usenet were popular. Wesnoth must be over 20 years old by now if I remember accurately, some roguelikes are probably nearing 30 or 40. Nowadays it seems like people have specialized groups on Reddit/Facebook/Discord etc., but it all somehow feels much less discoverable and organic, or maybe I'm just getting old.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by siberianbot » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

Recently, I found myself tired of most games, so I wrote one: https://github.com/siberianbot/asteroids It is full of issues, but I still working on it.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by cevn » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

assbuttbuttass wrote: post #33

I'll mention nethack just because no one has said it yet

The other day I modified the source to give me 3 blessed potions of gain ability to start. Then I realized that it's better to just update the character generation to allocate more stat points in the beginning. Then I realized that having high stats doesn't automatically make the game fun and went back to the main branch..

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by kirenida » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:42 AM UTC

assbuttbuttass wrote: post #33

I'll mention nethack just because no one has said it yet

And in the same vein, Pixel Dungeon / Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by NegativeLatency » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:50 AM UTC

Open Rollercoaster tycoon

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by FrostKiwi » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 4:51 AM UTC

Xonotic[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/ [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shattered...