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What's Your Favorite Open Source Game?

Posted by Cliff on from the share-your-opinions dept.

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."

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  1. Ladder by DeadSea · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My favorite game growing up was Ladder for my Kapro II computer. Sort of a clone of Donkey Kong with ASCII graphics. I liked it so much I cloned Ladder in Java and released it open source. Should work fine on the OS X.

    Not open source, but free flash games that I really like:

  2. Re:There aren't any good ones by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "None are any good, so why bother even looking?"

    Because you cannot prove that something doesn't exist. Therefore, you cannot use that rational to explain why you won't look.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  3. Crossfire by flonker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Crossfire of course! The graphics are a bit simple, but it's got nearly as much depth as nethack, and it's a MMORPG. Gameplay is a bit similar to gauntlet, but with CRPG elements.

  4. Flightgear by _aa_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Flightgear is fun.

  5. My top 5 by minotaurcomputing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) NetHack
    2) GNU Chess
    3) GNU Go
    4) Rogue
    5) GNU Shogi

    Pretty limited scope... sorry.