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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by mnahkies »

vyrotek wrote: post #101
flashgordon wrote: post #83

Apologies in advanced for not submitting a game. Does anybody feel an unbreakable urge to just break from free of the dreary day job and write games for fun each time you see a HN post like this? My fantasy is to just go and Browserize a game (and not just by wasming it). Gaaaaah the tragedy of limited time!

All the time. I get the itch every few months. Luckily my day job is all C# so I've been able to pick up Unity on the side. I'm terrible at making games but working on them brings back the joy I had when I first learned to program. The feedback loop between code and something interesting on the screen is quick and refreshing. Lately I even managed to make a basic VR game with my Quest2.

I don't suppose you would have any good tutorials / resources for quest 2 development with unity. I've had a brief go recently but as someone who's never used unity before I found myself floundering a bit.

I've also found the unity editor to be pretty unstable on Linux so if you happen to have any tips there I'd be all ears

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by sph »

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — the absolute best roguelikes around.

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The first has a very focused philosophy of removing all tedious and spoilery game mechanics, optimal strategies and no-brainers from the game. Some hate that, I love it. DCSS is the anti-Nethack. You can play online on your browser, with graphical tiles, spectators and even information bots for all your queries.

https://crawl.develz.org/

The second has an extremely passionate and vibrant community of contributors, and they're adding everything and the kitchen sink. Blink and a whole subsystem will have been merged into master. I reckon CDDA will be the first universe-scale quantum simulator, a couple years before the entire humanity will transfer its consciousness inside a Dwarf Fortress world.

https://cataclysmdda.org/

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by fullstop »

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”).

This was one of my most favorite games as a teenager. It still holds up!

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by ce4 »

Not a game, but hosting. here i got ports/patches for open core/open source games, especially for Loki games like 1.5 decades ago:

http://icculus.org/

Amongst them one my favorites: Alien vs. Predator (Sierra Game Studio). Proprietary game content though, unsure about the code licence.

Edit: typos fixed

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by becquerel »

sph wrote: post #202

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — the absolute best roguelikes around. -- The first has a very focused philosophy of removing all tedious and spoilery game mechanics, optimal strategies and no-brainers from the game. Some hate that, I love it. DCSS is the anti-Nethack. You can play online on your browser, with graphical tiles, spectators and even information bots for all your queries. https://…

CDDA is certainly a much more enjoyable game than Dwarf Fortress, but I have to admire the audacity of something that attempts to simulate thousands of years of history in a world, which you can step into any time, alongside the social structures of entire civilisations. Perhaps the only thing more amazing than DF's scope is the fact that it exists.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by kroltan »

Archelaos wrote: post #188

Sauerbraten: http://sauerbraten.org/ But I do not play it anymore. I fear it would become too addictive again.

Heck yes, I love this game. Instagib is very satisfying, and I have many memories making maps with its embedded level editor together with friends.

I don't know of any other games that do this, having a realtime multiplayer editing toolset. (if you do, tell me and I'll certainly play them too!) Maybe Halo's Forge mode, but that's a bit more limited, though still good fun.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by formerkrogemp »

HKH2 wrote: post #184
INTPenis wrote: post #131

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…

Doom is not an open content game. Neither is Quake.

Both have open source imitations; I think.
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