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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by INTPenis »

Thinking back I can probably list all the open source games I've enjoyed on one hand.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the one I enjoy daily, also enjoyed the predecessor. Play it every time I'm on the toilet. ;)

Konquest was a really fun old game that came with KDE back in the late 90s, early 2000s. I assume it was open source, I was just a kid playing it.

Nethack of course, enjoyed many hours in that dungeon.

Doom counts right? I played a lot of Doom in the 90s and it's open source now. Quake too I believe.

Edit: How the hell could I forget Cataclysm: Dark days ahead.

This is a hard list to make, partly because I love open source and there are so few titles I've enjoyed on a regular basis.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by INTPenis »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #23

Total Annihilation-like: [Beyond All Reason]( https://www.beyondallreason.info/ ). There are also a few others (or supreme commander-likes) run on the [springrts engine]( https://springrts.com/ ) including zero-k.

TA is one of my top 5 games of all time, one of the first games I could afford back in the day.

But I've never been a fast RTS player, I'm more of a casual civ turn-based player, so is BAR playable for me? Does it cater to the South Korean Zerg rush pros or the base builders?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by barbs »

firebaze wrote: post #87
barbs wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The parent is probably referring to this part of the OP: > Edit: please vote on the comments people post too. Up if you like, down if you dislike, don't vote if you haven't played it or are neutral on it.

Ah true. Apologies.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by Adrox »

sliken wrote: post #116

Warzone 2100. Open source, I believe their goal was the ultimate real time strategy, and I believe they landed pretty close to that. You can design your own units, each with strengths and weaknesses that reward different strategies. The campaign was fun, rewarding, and had a fair bit of variety. There's even a few AI projects to make smarter teams of tanks (which allows MUCH more complexity than controlling an AI). I…

Just to point out Warzone 2100 was a commercial game by “ Pumpkin Studios”, that had all the features you mentioned, and it was later open-sourved.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by bernds74 »

Fully open source and open content is a pretty strong constraint. Nethack and Angband are probably the ones I've spent most time with. I also had a phase where I spent time with springrts and the games built on top of it.

A more recent one is Remnants of the Precursors, a rather cool remake of Master of Orion 1. Haven't played it as much, though.

If we limit the restrictions to just open source, maybe Quake? And Civilization IV is not fully open source, but all the game code is.

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