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It’s a theme hospital clone, similar to open ttd. I played theme hospital as a child and now contribute to this project. It’s nice to exceed my past ability and see the game grow through my efforts.
However I probably had the most hours into Armagetron Advanced[1], which is basically "2D-isometric Lightcycle-From-TRON Deathmatch: The Game" and allows for many interesting gametypes that you wouldn't necessarily expect, from CTF to Sumo, which is kinda but not exactly like king of the hill.
The best part of armagetron is the keybind system. If you bind, say, Z to "turn left" and . (period) to "turn right", then your right and left hands will turn you right and left, respectively. But if you also bind X and C to turn left, and m and comma to turn right, then you can press Z and X simultaneously to perform a quick 180-degree turn. You can also do funky stuff like press Z, X, C and M and Comma (that's 5 keypresses) to do a sort of outside-hairpin turn which makes for a devastating trap against anyone riding along your wall for speed.
I wasted so very many hours on tron. If anyone here played on the Swampland or Mud Puddle servers, they know how addictive it can be. A small but tight-knit community except for that one insufferable jerk who went under various handles but primarly "Xdude". Fuck you, Xdude.
Anyways, armagetron is an awesome game that's probably dead now, but is really fun for LAN parties.
The mana world- a 16 bit inspired MMO rpg http://www.themanaworld.org
And EDOPro, a YGOPro fork (You-Gi-Oh client) with improvements
i only played it briefly, but i believe it is the only FOSS MMORPG out there.
if there are others, i'd like to know
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”.
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]…
Anyone looking to get started with hexagonal grids should check out [1] from Red Blob Games. Comprehensive tutorial on hex grids explaining coordinates, fields of vision, pathfinding and more.
Even though I didn't manage to code a single line of Lisp for the game's internal code or actually get a single level done, the fact that it was theoretically possible was amazing to me.
Also WASD for movement + mouse for shooting in a 2D game was a novel mechanic for me and I still like 2D two-stick shooters quite a bit.