Widelands - I've spent days in that game.
Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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#12Back in the day: Vegastrike.
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#13I don't currently have one, but I would love to see an open-source version of MOBA's and CS:GO complete with map editors and game "seeds" so players can experiment with different rule sets.
The hardest part about setting that up is likely the servers.
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#14Battle 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?
Some of them are companies who open sourced their proprietary game. Many others are individuals tinkering alone in their spare time. Some of those eventually grow a player and then developer community.
There are some places to discuss libre/open games:
https://libregamewiki.org/ https://libregames.gitlab.io/ https://freegamedev.net/
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#15Catacylsm: Dark Days Ahead is fantastic.
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#16Mindustry https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
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#17Easily 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/
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#18Widelands - I've spent days in that game.
A link for people who might be interested: https://www.widelands.org
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#19id 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 may be more actively maintained than others.
Quake3e is my favorite, despite requiring a copy of the game.
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#20Battle for Wesnoth: https://github.com/wesnoth Kittens: https://bitbucket.org/bloodrizer/kitten-game/src/master/
I just installed the Kittens game on my phone. That may have been a mistake. I am already hooked.