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2008-07-20
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I used to play Armagetron a lot....
www.armagetronad.net
Not sure if you'd consider it a clone or not.
Or Tux Racer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Racer
Martin
www.armagetronad.net
Not sure if you'd consider it a clone or not.
Or Tux Racer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Racer
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2008-07-20
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Scorched3D, it is a spiritual successor of Scorched Earth, but quite different at the same time.
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
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2008-07-20
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2008-07-20
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Originally Posted by qwerty12
In the same vein: Nexuiz
http://sauerbraten.org/
Battle for Wesnoth is another great one, available for the tablets, even!
Hey, want to see a page that makes further discussion largely irrelevant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games
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2008-07-20
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
That list is full of clones, puzzles and former commercial games, which are precisely the titles I'm trying to avoid! :-)
Hey, want to see a page that makes further discussion largely irrelevant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
According to that link, it's a Quake mod which only got standalone status when the Quake 3 engine was released to open source, but that engine started out as commercial.
One of my personal favorites, Tremulous!
This is what I mean, with open source games there usually seems to be some dependence on something developed commercially.
Last edited by krisse; 2008-07-20 at 10:33.
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2008-07-20
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Originally Posted by krisse
Yes, but the rest are also there
That list is full of clones, puzzles and former commercial games, which are precisely the titles I'm trying to avoid! :-).
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2008-07-20
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Originally Posted by krisse
Eh, it uses ioquake3 as a base, but it's drifted pretty far from the commercial code these days.
According to that link, it's a Quake mod which only got standalone status when the Quake 3 engine was released to open source, but that engine started out as commercial.
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2008-07-20
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The problem isn't that making games is too difficult or time consuming but that it is ridiculously difficult to make an engine that stands a chance of competing with the commercial market. Games written using Valve's Source engine are as near as dammit open source games, but rely on the structure brought in by the Half Life series.
I've been trying to assess the state of the open source gaming world, but it's quite difficult to do because most lists of open source games consist almost entirely of games that are either clones of commercial titles, puzzle games or unfinished.
Are there any open source games which are original, not puzzles and relatively finished? I don't mean former commercial games either, but games that were written from the very beginning as open source titles.
The reason I'm interested is because open source versions of applications such as word processors can be very close to their commercial counterparts in functionality, or even surpass them. But open source games seem a lot further away from commercial quality.
Am I wrong? I'd love to be wrong about this so please do post if you can correct me.