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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by KleerKut »

dominikstr wrote: post #227

I can recommend SuperTux[0] and SuperTuxKart[1] as great OSS alternatives to Super Mario and MarioKart. SuperTuxKart is truly cross-platform and even has an online mode. [0] https://www.supertux.org/ [1] https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page

SuperTuxKart has come a long way and is very well done. I haven't tried the online multiplayer, but it looks pretty good. I was really impressed that my Driving Force Pro racing wheel worked out of the box. Now I just need to fix the pedals which were designed rather poorly. Fortunately they can be improved with a couple of new potentiometers and some spring steel.

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Post by doubled112 »

HKH2 wrote: post #184
INTPenis wrote: post #131

Thinking back I can probably list all the open source games I've enjoyed on one hand. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the one I enjoy daily, also enjoyed the predecessor. Play it every time I'm on the toilet. ;) Konquest was a really fun old game that came with KDE back in the late 90s, early 2000s. I assume it was open source, I was just a kid playing it. Nethack of course, enjoyed many hours in that dungeon. Doom counts…

Doom is not an open content game. Neither is Quake.

FreeDoom is an open source game running on the Doom engine, but no, Doom's assets were never open sourced.

Quake III Arena had Open Arena, which was an open source clone. Did anybody ever do anything similar with the original Quake engine?

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Post by HelloNurse »

RazeLighter777 wrote: post #15

Catacylsm: Dark Days Ahead is fantastic.

Once I tried to play Cataclysm DDA, and I managed to get stuck in a defective submenu during character creation.

By comparison, when I tried to play NetHack I managed to get stuck in a pit due to heavy armour, a more satisfactory death.

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Post by flashgordon »

hutzlibu wrote: post #141
Tade0 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and yes. I've been trying write a game from scratch (emphasis on "scratch" considering the scale of the itch) as a side project, but that quickly evolved into an excercise in overcoming analysis paralysis. I'm currently stuck on "can I count on the HTML Canvas to optimise cases where a tile is out of view or should I make a fancy system to calculate that now ?" I get an average of 2h a week to do this, so I need…

"I'm currently stuck on "can I count on the HTML Canvas to optimise cases where a tile is out of view or should I make a fancy system to calculate that now?"" I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but since I did wrote a canvas game from scratch, I can tell you that you cannot count on the canvas to optimize anything (and likely not what you want in this case) Every browser does it a bit different and it will…

I also found Canvas a bit challenging - not the programming model per day but just the work of coordinating scenes and objects. I got overwhelmed with the number of frameworks at the time and didn't want to go down the path of investing in a single one (not a good move in hindsight).

By the way I wonder if it is reasonable to expand the "requirement" to - wasming is ok if you are writing the game from scratch in say rust instead of just compiling old binaries to wasm?

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Post by kqr »

albertzeyer wrote: post #233
kqr wrote: post #52

Liero is high up on my list. The original wasn't open source, of course, but a really good game with a few bugs. The author lost the source code in a crash and that precluded any future bugfixes. Eventually someone reimplemented it faithfully! I love FOSS! ---- OpenMW is my current vice, but obviously content is not open source.

There is OpenLieroX ( https://www.openlierox.net/ ) (disclaimer: I'm one of the main developers) and then there is also a almost exact reimplementation of the original one ( https://www.liero.be/ ). Also see Webliero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676 And there have been many other clones in the past like Gusanos. Soldat is also similar, and has recently become open sourced. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

I did look at all the clones (there are many!) But I felt like none matched the dynamics and mechanics of the original -- hence my excitement when someone ported OpenLieroX and made the almost exact reimplementation!

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Post by msmenardi »

Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #253
flashgordon wrote: post #83

Apologies 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!

Yes all the time, my go to topic for learning new techs is usually hexes (I don't know why I'm obsessed with HexMaps...). Anyway when I dabbled with F# I did exactly this, browserize it with Fable( https://fable.io/ ). Usually I loose interest after a while so I implemented HexGrids + some strategy/tactical stuff on various techstacks, but never finished anything. It's ok its more about learning the stack than actual…

I also love hexes. Have you seen this guy's blog before? It's a treasure:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

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Post by em-bee »

xigoi wrote: post #299
em-bee wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that sounds like no different than minetest.

myself i only play minetest on a public server without attacking mobs, so there is no hurry to build a base, and i can focus on building interesting stuff. i still have to get food, mine for materials and fix my tools so there is plenty to manage while building. and with other players on the server we can also build in collaboration.

my son likes to add mobs, so he is building and fighting mobs.

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Post by sliken »

sliken wrote: post #118
ninjin wrote: post #31

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]…

I really liked Xbattle, but seemed pretty dated, and at least when I played required players to xhost + the server, which back then wasn't that unusual. There was a similar game, written in java (server and client I believe), called Europa. Had a grid of X's, simple UI (tell units where to go) and the "water pressure" would slow from the cities that make armies to wherever you pointed them. Even included things like…

I found the download on the wayback machine (very cool). It's basically a modernized xbattle that has a server/client that doesn't rely on X11 trusting remove server.

To download: https://web.archive.org/web/20050925030417/http://www.cgl.uw...

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Post by sliken »

emj wrote: post #177
sliken wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really liked Xbattle, but seemed pretty dated, and at least when I played required players to xhost + the server, which back then wasn't that unusual. There was a similar game, written in java (server and client I believe), called Europa. Had a grid of X's, simple UI (tell units where to go) and the "water pressure" would slow from the cities that make armies to wherever you pointed them. Even included things like…

XbattleAI did a TCP connection version, I can't remember if it was good enough. See. https://github.com/robertjschulz/xbattleai The closed source javascript game https://generals.io is a good simplification of XBattle, I've seen one OSS server reimplementation of it. If you can find the code for Europa I'm interested, I think it was released as OSS but I couldn't find it when looking around.

It wasn't opensource ... till the author decided to just shelve it. See above for download link.

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Post by bshipp »

matthews2 wrote: post #89
ninjin wrote: post #31

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]…

Designing your rail network in transport tycoon feels like software engineering sometimes, having to refactor old lines to fit the new ones in neatly. A very dangerous game to play though, you'll boot it up in the morning for a way to kill an hour and... it'll suddenly be midnight.

I have played enough OpenTTD in my life that it silently sits in my library, tempting me, but I refuse to open it for exactly the reason you highlighted. it's a massive time sink and I'm far too old to suddenly realize the birds are chirping and the sun is coming up.
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