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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by assbuttbuttass »

kqr wrote: post #44
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?

Yep, it has replacements for the graphics and audio assets. Just "apt install openttd" :)

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by kqr »

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!

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OpenMW is my current vice, but obviously content is not open source.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by vanderZwan »

guhcampos wrote: post #7

I'm not sure it qualifies, as it was open sourced posthumously, but Warzone 2100 https://wz2100.net/ - was so original I've never played any other game with similar mechanics.

> Warzone 2100 was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. In 1999, it was released commercially for Microsoft Windows and Sony PlayStation. Pumpkin Studios ended their support for Warzone 2100 on January 5, 2000.

Huh, if it was designed with a PlayStation controller in mind it might actually control nicely on a Steam Deack. And it has Linux support!

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by agiacalone »

anjbe wrote: 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”).

Second this. I played the hell out of the original SC2 back in the day...and UQM improves on the entire experience.

They even updated the Super-Melee mode to be playable over the Internet.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by pizza »

Had a lot of fun playing the online multiplayer shooter AssaultCube many years ago. I remember it had a builtin map editor and people would make insane maps, like one for sniping between several-hundred-meter tall skyscrapers
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