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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!
Abuse will always have a warm place in my heart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game) Even though I didn't manage to code a single line of Lisp for the game's internal code or actually get a single level done, the fact that it was theoretically possible was amazing to me. Also WASD for movement + mouse for shooting in a 2D game was a novel mechanic for me and I still like 2D two-stick shooters quite a bit…
That game was a huge inspiration to me when I was a teenager and trying game development out. Both the mechanics and the visual style. I had no idea they released the source code to it!
However I stopped playing openarena because the only well-cared server was still full of people that would cheat in various ways, and that would make me extremely angry and would ruin the whole game experience. Also kinda addictive of a game, it is.
id 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…
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.
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.
Sauerbraten: http://sauerbraten.org/ But I do not play it anymore. I fear it would become too addictive again.
It's incredible that there's some people still playing. I boot it up once a year, it's always like returning to a piece of my youth frozen in time :-)
[1]: https://shapez.io/