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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 20 February 2006, 00:40
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I thought it would be nice to have a thread for some nifty open source games.
Here's one that looks pretty fun... my computer doesn't have the power to run it though :(
THE DEADLY SOCCER BALL (http://www.stanford.edu/~jgmorard/cs248/)
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http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9896
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Yeah, I remember that one.. but it wasn't what I'm trying to get about here.
There were a few games like Chromium BSU posted, but most of it was just a big discussion on the general state of open source games.
I'd rather see a thread of specific title posts and links, with the philosophy cut the hell out.
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http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php?module=media
http://bzflag.sf.net/
http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
http://icculus.org/duke3d/
http://www.flightgear.org/
http://www.liberatedgames.com/
http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/ (pool)
http://wormsofprey.org/ (a Worms game)
http://icculus.org/neverball/
http://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/
http://www.icculus.org/freespace2
http://xmoto.sourceforge.net/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://linuxgames.co.za/projects/noegnud/
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http://happypenguin.org/list?sort=avg_rating
http://liflg.org/?catid=6
http://linuxgames.co.za/projects/vultures/news/
... that's about all the resources I know.
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Cross platform MMO http://www.planeshift.it/ OS X, linux and dare I say it windows.
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Planeshift wasn't much when I tried it a year ago.
However, it's open source, so it must be heavily improved by now. I'll check it out again.
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I tried planeshift at some point, but some error kept it from working ... the screenshots look good though, maybe I'll try again.
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Well ... Planeshift works ... but the server's down :( ... I hope it comes back up sometime
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Scorched 3D (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/)
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Tremulous has released a standalone not requiring Quake 3 to run anymore. So everyone can run it.
http://tremulous.net/index.php?section=files
make sure you read the manual before playing, it's important, really it is.
http://tremulous.net/manual/
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I'm liking Metal Blob Solid, SuperTux(Mario ripoff), StarFighter right now, I installed an ass load of game onto my ubuntu box, haven't tried them all yet. Metal Blob reminds me of the old Duke Nukem games I had for the old 286 - 486 and all, fun 2D shit. I my day we didn't have 3 diementions and we did just fine damnit lol
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And there's Blob Wars: Blob and Conquer that just came out:
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobAndConquer.php
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Tremulous has released a standalone not requiring Quake 3 to run anymore. So everyone can run it.
http://tremulous.net/index.php?section=files
make sure you read the manual before playing, it's important, really it is.
http://tremulous.net/manual/
No need to read the manual, I've played Natural Selection (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/) before.
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http://www.wesnoth.org/
EDIT: shit it's already posted... by ME, lol. oh well. If only I could delete my posts..
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Oh ... almost forgot Tremulous is NOT based on NS !
Q: OMG YUO STOLED NS!!!1!
A: No. Development on Tremulous began long before NS was in the public domain. If Tremulous is inspired by anything, it is inspired by Gloom for Quake 2. NS has a similar ancestry (please see Game Developer Magazine February 2001 issue); this is probably where the confusion arises. This answer is not intended to be a sleight against NS in any way, shape, or form, only this "observation" comes up a lot, and it becomes frustrating to answer the same thing over and over again.
Ahhh and one more site for decent games:
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects.php (http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects.php)
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There's always MAME and such, though that's technically not open source as a whole. But it's still fun.