Open-source Games That You Like?


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Merged master list into first post to keep everything organized- Chip

I hope this help a bit
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Thanks to Chip for putting this post to the first page
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Please report broken links/links to non-open-source-games/suggestions for improvement via PM to meMost of the comments behind the links are quotes from the linked website.

_______________________________________Collections of open source games:

debian
lgames
blogspot
happypenguin
asahi-net
icculus
walaber

_______________________________________1st person shooter:

Chex Quest 3 is a total conversion of the computer game Doom (specifically Ultimate Doom).
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FreeDoom. The Freedoom project aims to create a complete Doom-based game which is Free Software.
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Alien Arena. The goal of Alien Arena was to create the perfect marriage between Quake and Unreal Tournament
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Open UT. The OpenUT Project was formed to develop libraries, executables, and tools relevant to the Unreal Tournament engine.
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Open Arena is a first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine.
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Nexuiz. The goal of the project is to create a high quality first person shooter that can be played freely across all platforms in one package
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Duke Nukem 3d high resolution. Well, good old Duke
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Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.
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Alien versus Predator. This is a Linux port of the Fox Interactive / Rebellion Developments game, Aliens versus Predator (Gold Edition).
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Cube Engine. Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay.
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Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine), and aimed on the competitive scene, or the e-sports community.
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Urban Terror started as a realism based "total conversion" mod for Quake III Arena. Nowadays, Urban Terror is played using the free, stand-alone, ioquake3 engine modified, which doesn't require Quake III Arena, in addition to being an add-on to id Software's Quake III Arena.
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_______________________________________Strategy:

Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game and also an engine to make strategy games.
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The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls or any of the other races and beat those who dare to oppose you.
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Homeworld is a real-time strategy computer game, set and played in a 3D space environment. Developed by Relic Entertainment, it was released for the PC in 1998 to worldwide acclaim, winning multiple awards for its novel gameplay and strong single-player story. Relic Entertainment later released the source code to the public under licence.
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FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
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Outer Space is an on-line strategy game which takes place in the dangerous universe.

Scorched 3d is a simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others' weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics.
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sc2-The Ur-Quan Masters
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wesbrown18 said:
Ur-Quan Masters compiles out of the box on Angstrom/BB.Consider this one done for the Pandora.
Warzone 2100 is a 3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth.
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FreeCiv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.
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UFO Alien invasion. It is the year 2084. You control a secret organisation charged with defending Earth from a brutal alien enemy. Build up your bases, prepare your team, and dive head-first into the fast and flowing turn-based combat.
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TripleA is a turn based strategy game engine and axis and allies clone.
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Clonk is a highly versatile multiplayer game of strategy, action, skill, and fun!
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Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine.
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LordsAWar. A turn-based strategy game where up to 8 players strive for control of as many cities as possible.

Wargus is a Warcraft2 Mod that allows you to play Warcraft2 with the Stratagus engine, as opposed to play it with the original Warcraft2 one.

_______________________________________Simulation:

Stunt Playground is a fully 3D stunt driving game for the windows PC. A Mac version is also available.
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(PM from GeneralZod:) Stunt Playground itself is open source, but relies on a proprietary physics engine that (last time I looked) had no ARM port(..)


Free Space 2. This virtually unknown game consistently won awards for being a great action space sim, but never really caught on when it was released. The Source Code Project has worked, and continues to work, on improving the graphics and gameplay of this ten-year-old game. See the screenshots page; I think they pretty much speak for themselves.
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BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game.
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Flight Gear is a free flight simulator project.
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OoLite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon.
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Netrek is a multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme.
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Danger from the Deep (known as dangerdeep or DftD) is a free (as in free speech), Open Source World War II german submarine simulator.
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Flying Guns is a flight- and battlefield simulator used to develop and test approaches for low-resource, internet enabled games and distributed simulation.
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Battle Just Started is 3D arcade tank battle game.
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_______________________________________Racing:

TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator.
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VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind.
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PlanetPenguin Racer is an OpenGL racing game featuring Tux, the Linux mascot.

Super Tux Kart is a Free 3D kart racing game, with many tracks, characters and items for you to try.
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Extreme Tux Racer is an open-source downhill racing game starring Tux, the Linux mascot.
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_______________________________________God:

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer.
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LinCity-ng is a SimCity-like game, a polished and improved version of the old LinCity game.
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_______________________________________Shoot em up:

Torus Trooper is an abstract shooter, created by Kenta Cho and ported to Linux by Evil Mr Henry.
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Open Tyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian.
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Frozen Bubble

Word War Vi is the place to fight the holy war
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Kobo Deluxe is an enhanced version of Akira Higuchi's game XKobofor Un*x systems with X11. Kobo Deluxe uses SDLfor graphics, sound and input, which makes it possible to build and run the game on pretty much anything.
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_______________________________________Jump'n Run

Open Sonic is a free open-source game based on the "Sonic the Hedgehog" universe.
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Fez is an experimental game collective formed by a rare union of Montreal gamemakers and curators to promote games as an art form and expressive medium worldwide.
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Super Tux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games.
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Tee Worlds
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Jump n Bump. A multiplayer little platform program that would be very fun to play in pandora (Uses SDL)
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There is already a GP2X Port!!

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic sidescroller games. It uses the platform independent library SDL and, since version 0.98, the OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer. The game is developed in C++.
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_______________________________________Wormslike games:

Hedgewars
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OpenLieroX

Wormux
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_______________________________________Arcade games:

ArmageTron A.D. is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron.
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Mother of all gravity games. In this game you are pilot of a small space ship and have to navigate it through different caves by using the thrusters and rotating the ship.

Freedroid. Paradroid clone.
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Neverball. Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
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BlockOut 2 is a free adaptation of the original BlockOut® DOS game edited by California Dreams in 1989.

Ri-li. You drive a toy wood engine in many levels and you must collect all the coaches to win.
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_______________________________________Puzzle:

Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga.
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Fish Fillets NG is a Linux port of wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets from ALTAR interactive.
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_______________________________________Role Playing games:

NAEV is a 2d action/rpg space game that combines elements from the action, rpg and simulation genres.
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GemRB (Game engine made with preRendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine which was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset.
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Exult is a project to recreate Ultima 7 for modern operating systems, using the game's original plot, data, and graphics files.
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xu4 - Ultima IV Recreated is a remake of the computer game Ultima IV.
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wesbrown18 said:
Consider xu4/Ultima 4 done and ready for the Pandora more or less with a few hours of work. I ported it to my Beagle Board.
_______________________________________Roguelike games:

Nethack

Scourge is a cross platform, open source rogue-like game in the fine tradition of NetHack and Moria
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Powder. A fun an addictive roguelike. (Uses SDL)
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vulture's eye/claw. A pretty isometrical interface for nethack / slashem. (Uses SDL)
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NoeGNUD. A 3D graphical interface for NetHack and Slash'EM (Uses SDL)
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_______________________________________Board games:

gnuChess. Free Chess game

Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.
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gnuBg. Free Back GammonSDL_Go is a graphical interface for GnuGo using the SDL-Library. This program is no Go program, it does not even know the Rules (except some basics), it just sends the things you input down to GnuGo and displays the results for you.

GnuGo is the program that lends all its intelligence to SDL_Go. You need at least version 2.7.137 for SDL_Go to do it's work.

_______________________________________Other or "I don't know" games
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Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU GPL.
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Frets On Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.
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XMoto
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Sonic Robo Blast 2
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Zeq2Grid Wars

BSD Games

Circus Linux
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FooBillard

Step Mania

Descent2

_______________________________________Games removed from list:


Klepto said:
Savage 2 is not open source (..). Savage 1 is closed source freeware AFAIK.
Savage and Savage2 removed. Both seems not to be open source regarding wikipedia.

Typhoon a freeware game... removed. Seems not to be open source.
Svartalf said:
ricki said:
Shouldn't have been removed.(...)


Thanks, it's back in the list.

Metroid 2 remake. Removed
yosh64 said:
FAQ:
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- Are you gonna release the source code?
No.
Anyhows sorry to burst anyones bubbles


As far as I can see Crayon Physics is not open source

Rigs Of Rods
RoR is a freeware: it is given free of charge (but the source code is closed).Thanks to GeneralZod for PM me about this.----------------------


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Original first post from Cosurgi:

I edited my opening post to add this link above. But there is a limit of only 6 images per post, so now (because I edited this post) the images below the 6th one won't be displayed.Maybe some of them could come preloaded on Pandora?

Anyway, I'd like to know your list, maybe there are few pearls that I missed?

Torcs, The Open Racing Car Simulator
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Planet Penguin Racer
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Neverball & Neverputt
(wikipedia entry)
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Freeciv, man I could play days and never stop
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Lgames set: barrage, lbreakout, etc - very small footprint, simple and entertaining.barrage (shooting an artilerry cannon):
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lbreakout (arkanoid clone):http://lgames.sourceforge.net/LBreakout2/ss2.jpg
foobillard, sf.net page.
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freedoom
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Freedroid, extremely addictive, until you win (two days), very small footprint (do not confuse this one with freedroid RPG, which returns more google results)
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frozen-bubble - very fun also
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gnuchess
(wikipedia) - how can be a handheld gaming device without chess?
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Mother of all gravity games
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Pingus a free lemmings clone
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Neverball would be nice.

Armagetron Advanced would also be cool, not listed here but mentioned previously.

Maybe freecol?
 
are there any open sourced mmorpg like Ultima online? Would be frikken sweet to have that portable!!! Id go bonkers if someone found a way to get WoW on the pandora. To bad it aint open sourced and single player.

As for some games id like to See tetris 5000, Maybe the enchanced version of jfduke with updated graphics and bejeweled!!!
 
Seriously, there are sooo many you can't possibly list them all here.

A good source for open-source games is the great freegamer blog:

http://freegamer.blogspot.com

@ waffels: The requirements are generally not that bad, and the Pandora is quite fast. In general a few games might really be impossible (haven't seen one in this thead yet though) and quite a few will pose quite a lot of porting effort to make them run (in which category some of the games posted here would fit).

P.S.: All the Freespace2 modifications and Homeworld1 HAVE to be ported ;)

P.S.S.: NO OpenUT can NOT be ported as is is only a small part of the UT source code!!! Didn't we have this discussion about a 100 times already??? When will this stupid idea ever die in this Forum?
 
waffles said:
is it really possible for these to be ported, from a graphical standpoint?
I don't think the graphics are the problem, probably the physics will be the problem. Raw CPU power is lacking in other words.

Graphics can always be solved with lower poly models, lower quality textures, or less shaders, even clipping if you really need it.

I don't think any of these games is really a problem though. We only have 800x480 pixels to draw, the PowerVR can do that without breaking a sweat.

Edit, thanks everybody, I just downloaded Lincity and rigs of rods, will try them out :) Cheers!
 
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Freespace 2 is a must.
the quake 3 mods: MOH, padman, star trek etc...
warzone

Phun is not opensource... I think it was bought and the source has never been released.
 
greendots said:
Freespace 2 is a must.
the quake 3 mods: MOH, padman, star trek etc...
warzone

Phun is not opensource... I think it was bought and the source has never been released.
Yuck, I can't stand Free Space games, at least you didn't call it Descent (it isn't descent).

I want to See Descent and Descent ][ , also Descent Maximum will play on a Descent ][ engine.

Full source and several ports already (Including GP32 and GP2X, just not enough power to make it really playable)

http://www.descent2.com/ddn/

D2XL, D2X-Rebirth, D2-OGL, etc. The OpenGL ports could probably come over no problem, as well as the SDL ports.
 
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cosurgi said:
Oh, and Phun 2D, not exactly a game, but very fun
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Phun isn't opensource? Wasn't that just a project someone made for university?
i kinda start to think that you're a swede? :p
 
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You could probably spend days trawling happypenguin and find loads of suitable candidates. Here's a few I like and haven't been mentioned yet...

Warzone 2100, originally closed source but has been open for a while.
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UFOAI
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S.C.O.U.R.G.E.
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And one that's closed source but is free and so good I suggest we all chip in and buy the developer a Pandora so he might possibly make us a port please: Typhoon 2001 :)
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