Played 0AD recently, which is a RTS like Age of Empires. You can play it multiplayer on LAN too. It’s quite fun, though my base constantly gets burned to the ground by at least three different armys simultaneously
For shooters: Red Eclipse which is also available on Steam. If you go there, choose the beta Version, since the initial release on Steam from 2019 isn’t really good. I guess you can play the beta too, if you clone the github repo and build it yourself.
Both are available in your linux distributions repositories. Red Eclipse is quite old there though (version 1.6, Steam: 2.0)
There are also a slightly old OSS Counterstrike-like tactical shooters like Urban Terror and Assault Cube Reloaded I enjoyed in the past.
Most of the FOSS shooters I know are based on the Cube-Engine. I’m looking forward on something based on the Godot Engine. Maybe there are some more games to be released as FOSS in the future
I imagine that developing a opensource game is a very tedious task for the main devs. After all, games are not just code but also textures, 3d models, animations etc. Difficult to keep a vision when 100 people all over the internet are committing to it.
Oh, to be clear, I am not judging. Game dev is not easy to do. I am happy that any game exists. It just extra nice if it is also open source. I have also enjoyed playing Urban Terror. It’s fun!
Played 0AD recently, which is a RTS like Age of Empires. You can play it multiplayer on LAN too. It’s quite fun, though my base constantly gets burned to the ground by at least three different armys simultaneously
For shooters: Red Eclipse which is also available on Steam. If you go there, choose the beta Version, since the initial release on Steam from 2019 isn’t really good. I guess you can play the beta too, if you clone the github repo and build it yourself.
Both are available in your linux distributions repositories. Red Eclipse is quite old there though (version 1.6, Steam: 2.0)
There are also a slightly old OSS Counterstrike-like tactical shooters like Urban Terror and Assault Cube Reloaded I enjoyed in the past.
Most of the FOSS shooters I know are based on the Cube-Engine. I’m looking forward on something based on the Godot Engine. Maybe there are some more games to be released as FOSS in the future
Those are all great games! Sadly Urban Terror is not open source. https://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/33131-i-would-like-to-contribute-to-the-source-code/
The engine is, but the game built on top of it is not.
Oh, thanks I didn’t know.
I imagine that developing a opensource game is a very tedious task for the main devs. After all, games are not just code but also textures, 3d models, animations etc. Difficult to keep a vision when 100 people all over the internet are committing to it.
Maybe that’s why.
Oh, to be clear, I am not judging. Game dev is not easy to do. I am happy that any game exists. It just extra nice if it is also open source. I have also enjoyed playing Urban Terror. It’s fun!
agreed, I’d love to see more opensource games too