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Modern FPS based on DP engine and tons of fun servers with modified game plays. http://www.xonotic.org/

An Open Source FPS is still being built in people bedrooms by a small team. http://www.xonotic.org/ There's also a MOD that lets you mke massive changes to the game and physics to basically create crazy game play. https://github.com/MarioSMB/mo...

Wanna try something different check out the Hook and Minsta servers on Xonotic. Not my cup of tea but some super fast game play while you can fly around better than spider man.

http://www.xonotic.org/

Give Xonotic a try http://www.xonotic.org/. From normal weapons, to minsta. to shot gun and camping rifle only servers to servers with vehicles.

Just go to Xonotic, download it http://www.xonotic.org/

And thats all everyone should play http://www.xonotic.org/

I also run several modified Xonotic servers

Freeze Mofo (Camping Rifle Feeze Tag)
Drive Mofo (Vehicle CTF)
Mofo With A Shotgun (Shotgun only mod)

Here's a list of the most active servers http://stats.xonotic.org/topse...

Phoronix also uses Xonotic in their testing.

I have Steam with severral games but with them reading my DNS cache they can have the game back (ohh heh)

I also play these console

3DO
AtarI Jaguar
Dreamcast
Saturn
TG 16
N64
Game Cube

And thats all everyone should play http://www.xonotic.org/

I also run several modified Xonotic servers

Freeze Mofo (Camping Rifle Feeze Tag)
Drive Mofo (Vehicle CTF)
Mofo With A Shotgun (Shotgun only mod)

Here's a list of the most active servers http://stats.xonotic.org/topse...

Phoronix also uses Xonotic in their testing.

I have Steam with severral games but with them reading my DNS cache they can have the game back (ohh heh)

I also play these console

3DO
AtarI Jaguar
Dreamcast
Saturn
TG 16
N64
Game Cube

id Tech free multiplayer games:

id Tech 0 Freedoom
id Tech 1 Xonotic
id Tech 2 Warsow
id Tech 3 OpenArena
id Tech 4 ... nope
id Tech 5 ... sorry
id Tech 6 ... you must be joking

LOTS of good blood splatter and bodily explosions here http://www.xonotic.org/

I have an i5 Sandy Bridge on Xubuntu LTS with xorg-edgers (latest graphics drivers from git). After reading this and following articles pointing to tests using this GPU, I found http://www.xonotic.org/, which is quite an impressive OSS game. I played it at 1920x1080 with Normal effects and it looked stunning with no apparent stutter. Though I'm sure there are plenty of recent games that would bring this GPU to its knees, it seems to be up to the task for moderate gaming.

Xonotic (successor to Nexuiz) is worth a look: http://www.xonotic.org/

I think that might actually have evolved from Quake 2 era code originally, or something crazy like that - it's a lot more advanced now.

UFO:AI uses the Quake 2 engine on some level as well I think: http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

In my experience Nexuiz and UFO:AI have both been quality Open Source games, although I think UFO:AI contains some media that are not categorised as fully Free in the strictest sense. Xonotic looks to be doing some cool new things and I hope that UFO:AI has also improved since I last played with it.

While what people are saying here is likely valid (game development is not "fun and games", etc etc), I'd like to suggest an alternative to lying to them or pawning them off to a school that will only postpone their decision-making process wrt game development: suggest that they work on an open source game. Working with an open source game is

- a tremendous learning experience
- a resume booster
- free
- easily accessible

Personal example: I never wanted to be a game developer, but I was interested in how games work and how to make them better feature-wise. After looking around I found the Xonotic project, for which I now provide feedback and test for. It's a win/win for me and the project team; I've learned a lot in the process and the project team gets free map reviews and gameplay videos.

He can't really say that the original plan was to contact every developer, the deal was made in complete and absolute secret. Not a single developer knew about the Nexuiz deal, not a single notification was sent, most of us knew about it when we saw the the homepage was changed, only providing a small link to "Nexuiz GPL" at the bottom.

In my opinion there is no way to consider that this deal was morally right, there was people who were contributing code on a daily basis for *years*, the least you will expect is to get some sort of notification if someone is about to make money out of your hard work. In other words what they done is just stealing.

And of course they must rewrite the whole Nexuiz codebase now, that's the only way for them to prevent getting sued. Not to mention that after the deal was made public there was no dialog *at all* between Lee Vermeulen (the owner of Nexuiz) and the developers, there was no attempt at all to fix what they done (again, stealing), mostly because you actually need to talk in order to fix things.

That was the very reason because the Xonotic project was born, we as developers just can't trust Alientrap (which is only Lee Vermeulen) anymore.

It's sad that LH now makes it look like thanks to the unreasonable (ex)developers of Nexuiz now there will be no improvements flowing back to GPL Nexuiz. I don't know you but I'm getting used to his bursts of insulting statements.