 What are the best open content games in the world today? #gpl or #creativeCommons or other open source or open content stuff. I'm looking for games that have been under active development for 15 years, and games that are Brand New. I want things that are fun to play or beautiful to look at, and that treat linux with First Class support. What's out there? 19 comments
@TrechNex Thanks for the recommendation. I'm looking for reports from personal experience, but I can try some stuff out. @ajroach42 These are analog rather than video games, but here are my favorite CC-licensed TTRPGs: @ajroach42 the MC modding scene is pretty good with being open source, and theres that 0AD strategy game i see in my package manager all the time. If u come across something cool and actually has a playerbase lmk @redlilrascal @ajroach42 Minetest for that it's far better than MC. You have this for example: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Warr1024/nodecore/
Another good ones are Retux https://retux-game.github.io/ (Wariolike mechanics) and Hexoshi (Metroid clone) https://github.com/hexoshi/hexoshi @ajroach42 0 A.D. is one of my personal favorites, along with Veloren. The latter is still in development so there's not much story yet, but the design is amazing so far. @ajroach42 @ajroach42 love this. I've been tempted to start a side YT channel covering amateur game development - game jams, RPGMaker/Ren'Py/Twine hobbyist communities, etc. As much as I love doing the retrogaming content I can't help but feel it'd be more helpful to highlight indie projects than defunct commercial products. @ajroach42 um... does https://www.unrealworld.fi/ count? It's been in development since 1992, and, well, um... it's a roguelike, and it's very Finnish (: So "fun to play" may be one of those things like "dysentry" and Oregon trail (: It is not, however, open source. But I think, if you're not familiar with it, that it may fit what you were thinking of... @mjd My only real requirement is an open content license. A closed source game is okay if the binaries can explicitly be freely redistributed, but I'd prefer something that allows modification. Such as modding, or? I mean, I'd just write the guys and ask them. Honestly, I think this is the sort of thing you're actually looking for - something someone's spent a lot of time working on (it is their job - this odd little game about living in Finland around the ice age, or after...) @ajroach42 ah, right, this is a project thing where you need examples from that area. tic80 ? (: No, that hasn't been in development for that long. There are loads of roguelikes and items people have already mentioned, I'm trying to think outside of those.  You know about Nethack, right? There's also ULarn, which is not really developed anymore but is actively maintained by @joshbressers . Code is at https://github.com/ularn/ularn (I maintain a fork called ReLarn, which may or may not count.) @ajroach42 Emilia Pinball (sudo apt install pinball) began in 2000 and saw major releases in (iirc) 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2020. It's so nice but I want more tables. Of the current tables, Gnu is my favorite. @ajroach42 I'm a big fan of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's GPL and people have played it for years and still get a lot out of it. @ajroach42 A game so pervasive it has a family tree and entire genre named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game) |
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@ajroach42 the best place to look is the games section of Flathub.
You don't have to install them all from there (I don't!), but it provides a surprisingly broad cross-section. 🙂