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Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
#22Empty Epsilon bridge simulator: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon
The game itself is fun, but the best stuff I've seen is it being reused, modified, and adapted for LARPs and crowdplay.
Out of Orbit is a great and ongoing example, a Finnish escape room-ish experience that also has a Twitch game putting stream chat in the role of the ship's AI: https://outoforbit.fi/ and https://www.twitch.tv/outoforbitgame/about
Empty Epsilon powers the game part, with integrations using its DMX interface and HTTP API to provide hardware interfaces and things like Twitch chat commands modifying the game state.
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#23Total 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.
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#24The Ur‐Quan Masters, better known as Star Control 2.
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”).
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#25My own game, because I’m biased and it’s a shameless plug. The source code is MPL and the content is CC-BY. You’ll need a Nintendo 64 emulator to play though!
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#26Teeworlds 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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#28id Software open sourcing the Doom* and Quake 1..3 engines was very generous and all engines have since seen improvements through public contributions. Unfortunately game data is proprietary, however there are many open games using these engines. FreeDoom, Nexiuz, Xonotic, Warsow, Urban Terror, World of Padman, Tremulous, OpenArena are popular examples of wholly free games based on id's engines, though some of them m…
i wish they were popular examples :/
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#29Battle 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.
It took me months to break the addiction. It's an idle game and years later, I'm only halfway through the content. I am sorry, I should have added a warning.
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#30Others 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.