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Sweet! Does anyone have a list of high-quality open source games like this? (Subjective interpretation, but something like, "I couldn't believe it's free, I would have paid for it anyway.")
https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon
EDIT: forgot to refresh comments, already mentioned
Doom RL (drl) is also amazing
Sweet! Does anyone have a list of high-quality open source games like this? (Subjective interpretation, but something like, "I couldn't believe it's free, I would have paid for it anyway.")
Star Control 2 —- one of the greatest action adventure games ever made https://sc2.sourceforge.net/
My only gripe with the game is that healing doesn't give XP to the healing units. This means you need to place them in combat to level up instead of placing them behind the fighters like they are intended to be, and with them initially having low health they are very squishy. I know you can kinda cheese it by reducing a monster to 1-2 HP and then getting them to attack, but it feels like going against their role.
Highly suggest connecting with one of the lead developers, Charles Dang/Vultraz, if you have any C++ jobs in the USA. He's been a developer on Wesnoth since 2012 but only graduated university in 2024. Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Even if you're a maintainer on one of the most popular OSS C++ projects on GitHub. I can't recommend him enough. edit: LinkedIn https://www.linkedi…
> Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Furthermore, more and more companies are looking for "professional" devs using AI tools such as Claude Code. By "professional" I mean proficient in using those AI tools, not actual knowledge. And they don't even specify this in the job offer and you learn this during the interview.
Highly suggest connecting with one of the lead developers, Charles Dang/Vultraz, if you have any C++ jobs in the USA. He's been a developer on Wesnoth since 2012 but only graduated university in 2024. Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Even if you're a maintainer on one of the most popular OSS C++ projects on GitHub. I can't recommend him enough. edit: LinkedIn https://www.linkedi…
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Well: - Supertux2, it got recently revamped, the quality skyrocketed. Much better controls and artwork. - Supetux Advance, this is really great too. - Retux (More Wariolike than Mario) - Nethack/Slashem. A Roguelike more bound to interaction/exploration/mechanics than combat, but Slashem makes combat crazy with the Doppleganger Monk, which is basically a Shonen Manga, the role. (Dragon Ball/Naruto depending on your a…
> Speed Dreams I wonder why that isn't in the Debian repos?
A+! They even had an iOS version a while back: ` https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-battle-for-wesnoth/id14507... ` (this may be the "Mac" version, see: ` https://www.reddit.com/r/wesnoth/comments/1pjkwbw/i_had_wesn... `). If that's your jam then there's also a (non-open-source) "Hero's Hour" which tickles the old Heroes of Might and Magic stylings, works reasonably well on Xbox, where I've been doing most of my gamin…
I do wonder how realistic it would be to maybe crowdfund the dev team with 3 weeks of Claude Code in order to achieve a working WASM port?
My kids and I have been playing this for about 20 years. It's worked on Linux, Mac and Windows and has never stopped working. In the meantime so many other favorite games have disappeared or become obsolete. There's no absolute reason great games can't be as immortal as chess. Maybe Wesnoth can be.
Ditto with Oolite, tons of community content.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon it's a fork and still has tons of contents and it might be the most playable FLOSS game in Android among Unciv. Oh, and it can be run on potatos.
Sometimes you don't need AAA graphics.
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Also, acquiring said clearance is not always straightforward, even if you lack sufficient scruples to be willing to pursue it in the first place.
even if you lack sufficient scruples to be willing to pursue it in the first place. What an absurd thing to say. As a Canuck, I may even spend some days wondering if I'll have to defend my country from the US, but I can clearly see that there are many governmental and military jobs that are incredibly valuable, ethical, beneficial. Wikipedia says there are ~2M US governmental employees, and ~2M in the military. The m…
If not, it's all down to value judgements and your personal evaluation of the current power structures.
Personally, I would feel guilty if I did anything that empowered the Trump regime.