Open Source Games?

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Ravenfeather · Post by **Ravenfeather** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:45 pm

Hi there
The idea of gaming under Linux is relatively new to me.
But browsing these forums I am a little suprised the chat is mostly about making software run in an alien environment.

Now I am curious. I mostly play RPGs... aren't there any open source games using at least a more or less state of the arts engine? There are thousends of game developers out there and now a lot of guys who mess with DirectX or OpenGL just for the fun of it.

Isn't there anything worth playing? I mean, once you have a nice engine it shouldn't be too difficult to find people making levels stories or whatever for it. Or finding people to keep to help keep your engine state of the art as software and hardware develops, help adding features, simplyfying languages to provide a game world, adding new software to create game worlds and so on...

Cheers
Ravenfeather

SchwarzerRabe · Post by **SchwarzerRabe** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:05 pm

http://www.planeshift.it
Good luck in getting it up and running properly...
If u have a 32bit gentoo just run "emerge planeshift"!

Ravenfeather · Post by **Ravenfeather** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:27 pm

Yay!
Thank you!

Well currently my computer is busy with "emerge gnome" and I still have to install those nVidia drivers and write my xorg.conf file.
(Yes I am surfing with links2 atm)

But these new possibilities (I just browsed the "games*" directories in my portage) let me see this OS in a whole new light!
To bad I cannot see any screenshots or something with links.

ChristyMcJesus · Post by **ChristyMcJesus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:53 pm

Yeah there's a lot of people here who seem to take a lot of pleasure in spending hours trying to get wine to run their games

RPG fan? You can't go wrong with NWN! It's not open source, but frankly I think gaming is one area where the open souce model is at a disadvantage.

Ravenfeather · Post by **Ravenfeather** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:06 pm

How so?
Only because you could easily cheat? And even MMORPGS aren't that much of a problem if you think about the protocol that clients and servers use to communicate first. Things like wall hacks would be mostly impossible if the client doesn't know what's behind the wall.

Wouldn't matter much with games in the scope of Neverwinter Nights. Espacially due to the level editor... I played through virtually everything of NWN already.
But I'll surely try to get this installed.

Planeshift causes problem due to a ~x86 mask. I unmasked it in by adding "games-rpg/planeshift ~x86" to my /etc/portage/package.keywords file but the next package on which it depends needs it too... Not sure wether I should install too much unstable software as long as I do not fully understand gentoo.

Those Baldur's Gates games are interesting too... I have originals of Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II here... unfortunately the CDs aren't in their best shape. Possibly gonna buy the whole package. Not sure wether it will be much fun playing this all again though.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:29 pm

the planeshift in portage is wayy outdated anyways, go download the latest linux install from thier site, and use -auto on the updater, otherwise it runs really slow, also rename fire01.png to something like notinuse.fire01.png in the grafix foldier otherwise the client wont start.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:57 pm

BZFlag (LGPL'd, games-action/bzflag in Portage) is really fun. It's more of a shoot-people-blow-stuff-up game though...

muphicks · Post by **muphicks** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:03 am

There are a few commercial games that support linux, UT2003 certainly has a native port (I'd imagine ut2k4 does but I don't have it). Never winter nights is a great game and runs on linux without messing around with cedega

Also have a look at http://www.garagegames.com/pg/ for a few more games that have linux ports. ZAP is great fun, you can play 2 games before having to reconnect if you're playing as a guest.

On the free games front, although not open source. If you like 2d adventure games, have a look www.revolution.co.uk you can download Beneath a steel sky and Lure of the temptress (oldies but very playable

and run them using scummvm which I beleive is in portage.

If you happen to own Monkey Island 1, 2 or Curse of Monkey Island you can play those in linux using scummvm as well.

Open source wise, I've not played too many. Wesnoth always gets a mention, although it wasn't my kinda game. Theres tuxracer which is ok now and then. Theres also pingus which is great fun if you liked lemmings style games. If you have a search through the forums you'll find references to a lot of open source games.

Let us know if you find anything really good

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:10 pm

ahem... There is definantly a state of the art open source engine with a community that is willing to keep it state of the art and opensource, although they just released 1.0, i think it will grow quite fast even if it is based of q1 code, only ting I thought it was missing was ragdoll physics, and apparently they already have an early beta of ragdol physics, but at the momen its only surver side and has lots of problems. Its not an rpg... if you want a good rpg, go textbased, or join a mudd, or checkout utopia over at swirve games, or join a dnd group through aim, or you could do something really crazy and find a local dnd group, really hard to do though

I thought globulation 2 was pretty fun for a while, but thats more rts like. I don't know what genre this is under but Master Of Monsters for sega genesis kicked ass ^ ^, aw man, ima go emerge gens

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:15 pm

hehe, just remembered how i used to pass the hours stuck in berkeleys labs during the summer, check out 8bit theatre over at http://www.nuklearpower.com/ granted its not an rpg, but it is a comic about rpgs and I'm on something like *512 and still find myself laughing out loud... in class someties, sort of awkward, but.. meh

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:44 pm

COME ON, this thread is such a dupe. Please, spend ~5s searching. There are a number of threads on this or similar topics. Hell, I just posted in one that was on the frontpage of Gamers & Players so you can't even argue archival reasons for creating this dupe.