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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by earthbee »

twelvechairs wrote: post #46

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Yes! I'm always having a quick game of Inertia, Pattern or Slant while waiting for things to download, compile or just because I felt like it. It's nice having so many tiny little fun games available.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by chrchang523 »

agiacalone wrote: post #58
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.

If you haven’t had enough, https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/ might be relevant…

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by pull_my_finger »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #45

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”.

There's an older FOSS game Infon[1] that has a similar gameplay, but scripted in Lua.

[1]: https://github.com/dividuum/infon

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by brunooliv »

hifikuno wrote: post #20
muzani wrote: post #2

Battle 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.

How to install it on the phone?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by [deleted] »

nmz wrote: post #26

Teeworlds https://teeworlds.com and its mod ddnet https://ddnet.tw I've been playing for a full on decade, the game was your typical third person shooter but around 2015 a mod came out that allowed fast completion of puzzle like maps, then it diverged and it now has two versions. Everyone mostly sticks to its ddnet counterpart. but the quake style, deathmatch/ctf/team is still fun at times. though nobody plays it.

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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by freeCandy »

t-3 wrote: post #30

Others have mentioned Wesnoth, Oolite, and Cataclysm: DDA, but Angband and all of it's variants hold a special place in my heart. MAngband, ZAngband, TOME, all drew countless hours from my youth. FreeCiv is excellent. I think the name has changed (or it's been forked?) but Tremulous was a lot of fun.

There's a web(wasm) port of Angband too! https://github.com/ridiculousfish/shelob
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