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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by kqr »

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]…

Does OpenTTD have fully open source content by now?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by CGamesPlay »

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”.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by qbasic_forever »

username923409 wrote: post #28
mrslave wrote: post #19

id Software open sourcing the Doom* and Quake 1..3 engines was very generous and all engines have since seen improvements through public contributions. Unfortunately game data is proprietary, however there are many open games using these engines. FreeDoom, Nexiuz, Xonotic, Warsow, Urban Terror, World of Padman, Tremulous, OpenArena are popular examples of wholly free games based on id's engines, though some of them m…

i wish they were popular examples :/

Freedoom is an IWAD that's meant to replace all of the assets in the original game files with free versions. You can then use it to play any addon level, like the massive total conversions or level packs that win awards every year. A lot of modern level packs use a free texture set called otex that's a massive/near complete replacement of doom textures too. Sure you won't be fighting exactly the same monsters but Freedoom is surprisingly high quality and worth checking out.

And ultimately the original games go on sale for digital purchase for a few dollars all the time so they're not a huge expense to eventually get and then play all the free levels people create as they intended.

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