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What's Your Favorite Open Source Game?
Carlos Camacho asks: "The Inkubator Project is a website for creating free, Open Source Mac games through a collaboration between experienced and inexperienced developers. As webmaster, I am interested in adding to the seven games we have listed in our link section. So, I would like to ask Slashdot readers for their picks of the best Open Source games. The Inkubator Project focuses on Mac developers, however any game project that uses cross-platform technologies is fine."
BZFlag, definitely.
But I found this pretty quickly on google. Has ratings and everything.
Nethack, of course. :) You could also include the graphical Falcon's Eye front end on the list.
Jouni
Jouni Mannonen | Game Designer, Consultant
Vega Strike
Without a doubt one of the premiere open source games. If you've ever played Wing Commander, Privateer, Elite, Escape Velocity Nova, you will love this game!
It's a 3d space combat/flying game where you accept all sorts of different missions (piracy, search and destroy, rescue, cargo hauling, patrol, exploration, etc) for money. You can purchase different starships and upgrade them to top of the line milspec craft. You can take the missions, or just fly around making credits as a tramp freighter, taking profitable cargos from station to planet to base.
There's also a really sweet dynamic universe, with the different empires constructing fleets of ships which do battle (and you can see the battles happen if you are in the same system!), and you can read about the progress of the wars on the dynamic news system.
The artwork is sweet, with a lot of professional-quality stuff. The graphics engine is awesome, and the gameplay rocks too.
This is the game you're looking for.
(Windows, OSX, Linux)
no thanks
Turn based strategy, kinda like Panzer General/Fantasy General.
Freeciv is an open-source implementation of the classic Civilization I/II games. Go to http://www.freeciv.org to check it out.
"Trust me - I know what I'm doing."
- Sledge Hammer
One of my personal favorites is GLTron, nothing like 4 guys sitting down to 1 keyboard for a test of reflexes, the earlier versions were faster, but the newer ones have turbo.
Quake.
-- botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount}
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/ It's a great 3d Tron Clone.
I used to play Scorched Earth almost every day afterschool for a while in high school on my friend's 386SX. Great fun.
Now there's an Open Source, 3D panning, zooming, rendered version of the venerable game.
No first person shooting. No Viet-cong. No Desert Eagle. Just a big gun, an angle, a force, and if you're good enough, a hit.
I like to think of it as a wine that's had sufficient time to age. Doubtless, the younger ones will not appreciate this fine wine in favor of a brand new Mickey's "fine malt liquor." Still, I like it.
- I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
Take out the pyramid scheme shit and state UP FRONT that you treat non-paying players as second class citizens and I won't have any "FUD" to spread.
How we know is more important than what we know.
...i nearly always install on new systems:
CoreWar: simulation game where a number of warriors try to crash each other while they are running in a virtual computer.
Battle for Wesnoth: fantasy turn-based strategy game.
BZFlag: multiplayer 3D tank battle game.
Crimson Fields: tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
Crossfire: cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game.
Enigma: inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga.
FlightGear: Flight simulator.
FreeDroid: clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on Commodore 64.
Frozen Bubble: puzzle-bobble clone.
Globulation 2: Real-Time Strategy.
LinCity: city/country simulation game.
LBreakout 2: breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid.
NetHack - Falcon's Eye: mouse-driven interface for NetHack that enhances the visuals, audio and accessibility of the game, yet retains all the original gameplay and game features.
netPanzer: online multiplayer tactical warfare game designed for FAST ACTION combat.
Pathological: enriched clone of the game "Logical" by Rainbow Arts.
Project StarFighter: xy-axis star fighting game.
SuperTux: classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game.
XKobo: astpaced multiway scrolling shoot-em-up.
XRick: clone of Rick Dangerous.
XScorch: Scorched Earth clone.
Have fun!
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It's just one of the best implementations of the classic game there is, Open Source or otherwise.
If only there was online play... Anyone up for developing a MMPOLCG?
The ______ Agenda
Angband's a great RPG. Although it's more for D&D freaks.. :D
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Neverball a game based on Monkey Ball.
Fun, addictive and some of the courses can be really challenging.
... aka Star Control 2
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
I do not mean to be the "genre police," but NetHack is better described as an "ASCII RPG." If you can type in English "get sword," "go north," and "put the painting in the bag," then it qualifies as a text adventure.
Sorry about the brief diversion. We now return you to our regularaly-scheduled thread.
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