These are great but whose idea was it to "reimplement" a game engine, lift the assets from the original game and call it open-source? Who did it first? Was ScummVM the first?
Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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#153Netrek
The first real-time graphical team game on the internet!
It requires both fast reflexes and strategy and there were international leagues as early as the 1990s. These days there aren't many players, however.
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#154One great Open Source game that comes to mind is definitely VVVVVV. - https://thelettervsixtim.es - https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
Great game, but not Open Source; it's under a restrictive license.
Certainly open source. The source is there. In the open. You're just not allowed to reuse it in the ways that we have come to expect from free software. So it's open, but not free, software.
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#1550ad
Minetest (years ago, haven't kept up with it in a long time)
Widelands
gmult
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#156Various old skool text adventure games are open source (-ish, in some cases).
If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic/technology for turning objects into other things by adding/removing letters from their name:
> Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
> Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
> Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
> Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
> Good luck getting off the island.
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl
https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey
If you're new to the genre then "Lost Pig" is a good place to start, though technically it's licence (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is not open source.
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#157Total 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.
Spring is an amazing engine! It's been a while, but we used to have regular sessions of Balanced Annihilation (BA) decades after TA came out.
I don't know if more recent RTS games improved in that, but Springs UI was way ahead of other RTSs at the time.
Without going into detail, BA had very tense gameplay without getting too bogged down by micro managing units.
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#158IVAN ( https://github.com/Attnam/ivan ) A rougelike where you can have your legs severed, pray to a god to have them regenerated and have them regenerated as bananas. Edit: you can try it in the browser! https://attnam.github.io/ivan-050-wasm/
rogue, not rouge :-)
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#159I liked Hedgewars a lot!!!
But something SimCity like is also great!
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#160Shameless self promotion: Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/
I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it.
I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in the browser, so anyone could copy it. Written with nx in typescript.