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Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by crossingTime »

Adrox wrote: post #135
sliken wrote: post #116

Warzone 2100. Open source, I believe their goal was the ultimate real time strategy, and I believe they landed pretty close to that. You can design your own units, each with strengths and weaknesses that reward different strategies. The campaign was fun, rewarding, and had a fair bit of variety. There's even a few AI projects to make smarter teams of tanks (which allows MUCH more complexity than controlling an AI). I…

Just to point out Warzone 2100 was a commercial game by “ Pumpkin Studios”, that had all the features you mentioned, and it was later open-sourved.

I spent many hours playing WZ2100 on Mplayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer.com

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Post by Kelamir »

nmz wrote: post #26

Teeworlds 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.

Teeworlds is fun, I have spent hundreds of hours in it. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's hard to stop playing once I start, and I regret ever finding out about the game. Thanks to automated solutions I don't play it much anymore.

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Post by Gordonjcp »

themodelplumber wrote: post #306
Gordonjcp wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sauerbraten (previously known as Cube) was always a favourite of mine, with the added twist that the game itself was also the level editor, and different players could be in different "modes" in the same map - a group of people CTFing, while others deathmatched, and a couple of others were literally redrawing the map as they played. I see there's even a release of it that's not that old - I remember it from about 15…

Wouter, one of the original Cube developers / creator of the Cube engine, has started a new game studio. He also made a new programming language that was introduced here, called Lobster. He has a really interesting Twitter feed. https://www.strlen.com/lobster/ https://twitter.com/wvo 2021 interview at sauerworld: https://www.sauerworld.org/celebrating-20-years-of-cube-an-i...

I used to chat with him on IRC all the time, I should see if the channel is still on the go.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by Kelamir »

muzani wrote: post #2

Battle for Wesnoth: https://github.com/wesnoth Kittens: https://bitbucket.org/bloodrizer/kitten-game/src/master/

Upvoting for Battle of Wesnoth. It's a great game and feels rewarding to succeed at. It's got a great ecosystem of addons, such as user submitted stories that you play along, so there's a plenty of content to explore.

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Post by ravenstine »

badsectoracula wrote: post #168
ravenstine wrote: post #132

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Loved this game! I forget why I stopped playing. I played it for many years.

Personally i stopped because people stopped making maps for Cube and the SP mode in Cube 2 didn't get much attention :-P. So after a while i had played pretty much everything there was there several times. (though i haven't checked it for years so i don't know how it is nowadays)

They might have stopped making SP maps not just because the development for that feature was (and still is) weak, but because Quadropolis gradually became barely functional, if I remember correctly. Now it seems that Quadropolis is gone, along with a mod I once wrote to prevent the removal of blood decals. haha

Although I can see why you'd be disappointed at single-player not getting much attention, I think the devs made the right move by focusing mostly on multiplayer which had the largest player base by far. Multiplayer was really my thing for the most part. I just wish it didn't take them something like 9 years to finally ship an update to the game.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

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Post by Kelamir »

brenainn wrote: post #136

IVAN ( 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/

I love IVAN due to its difficulty(spend hours building character, get killed by invisible landmine) and polish(got a banana? Make a banana sword!). The little carcastic plot is fun as well.

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Post by INTPenis »

ydnaclementine wrote: post #267
formerkrogemp wrote: post #210

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Both have open source imitations; I think.

You need the wads (where's all the data). If you have doom on steam, you can compile something like GZDoom, and copy the wads from steam over

Of course, but even Romero has released free WADs so content is not an issue for true Doom fanatics.
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