Where are the Good Open Source Games?

[piratePenguin]

Planeshift looks cool.

It's licensing is similar to something that's been discussed here before.

PlaneShift is free for players, you can download it and play it without any fee.

PlaneShift uses two licenses. All source code of the engine is Open Source and under GPL. This means it can be reused in other projects. All the other assets are proprietary and copyrighted to Atomic Blue Non Profit Corporation and no reuse is allowed.

If you are interested, please review the reasons behind this choice.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

I've tried planeshift ... there are 3 main problems with it as of now:

1) The Linux version is almost always released a long time after the Window$ version. Which sucks cuz you need the new client to play

2) Everyone in the game is not too nice. I've been there and I asked people simple questions ... their answers: RTFM ! And the manual is not very complete either, or at least it wasn't the last time I checked.

3) It's damn boring. Killing a rat with one eyeball for hours on end in order to get it's eyeball and possibly sell it to buy a cheap weapon so you can kill a bandit for a couple more hours ...

It'd be nice to see a good open-source 3D MMORPG ... but so far planeshift doesn't impress me much

[piratePenguin]

Oh, well I guess I'll not bother with it.


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[pofnlice]

I saw an advertisement for a 1st person shooter game designed specifically for linux...wish I could remember the name...it was very half-life reminiscent.

[piratePenguin]

I saw an advertisement for a 1st person shooter game designed specifically for linux...wish I could remember the name...it was very half-life reminiscent.

That game where you go around killing spiders (or, if you're a spider, you kill the humans)? Tremulous or something like that it's called. It's very like HL, except for the spider/human thing. And it suckkkkkkkkked when I was playing it. (spiders, like wtf?)

[pofnlice]

that sounds right...it looked good andd the reviews were favorable...of course, thy would be...who would put "this game really sucked" as an advertisement...

[Dark_Me]

That game where you go around killing spiders (or, if you're a spider, you kill the humans)? Tremulous or something like that it's called. It's very like HL, except for the spider/human thing. And it suckkkkkkkkked when I was playing it. (spiders, like wtf?)

It has probably improved from the last time you played it. It's right now at version 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 is on the way. It runs on the Quake3 engine (OpenGL) and has a offical Linux port/client.
As for gameplay it has moved a bit beyond "running around killing spiders" and has a very large team element to it.
Offical site.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

It was Tremulous, and it's actually a pretty good game. I don't play it anymore for 1 reason (which you may find silly):

I was fixing up the human base one time moving things so that it would be nearly impossible for the aliens to destroy it. Then this dickhead Dr. Stein says I'm tking the base. And guess what, everyone believes him and I get banned. Well that does it for me ... besides it gets kinda boring after a while. And the people are usually assholes.

[mobrien_12]

Wow, that does look nice.  Quake 3 was a really good engine I thought... games on that engine were always very satisfying.  

Too bad  it sounds like the players are all dicks.

[worker201]

that sounds right...it looked good andd the reviews were favorable...of course, thy would be...who would put "this game really sucked" as an advertisement...

The world would be a much better place if they did...

[piratePenguin]

In the map of tremelous I played online, when I was a human it was just constant kill every spider you see, and when I was a spider I couldn't find my bloody way to where the humans where. The map was huge.

Maybe I should try it again...

[Dark_Me]

In the map of tremelous I played online, when I was a human it was just constant kill every spider you see, and when I was a spider I couldn't find my bloody way to where the humans where. The map was huge.

Maybe I should try it again...

The maps are confusing at first but there aren't that many so after a while you learn the maps.
And yes there are a lot of assholes in Trem but there are also a few good people floating around. And telling your team what you're doing helps.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

I may have painted it in a negative light with my comment. I think if you haven't tried it you should. Just don't be surprized if you meet a lot of assholes. I think the biggest problem with it (it may even be the cause of such negative attitudes) is the lack of security measures. Griefers and crackers can easily mess up a game which pisses everyone off and makes them infinitely more likely to kick/ban people for even the slightest hint of you trying to tk stuff or doing something suspicious. Maybe when they release a new heavily patched version I may try playing again.

[mobrien_12]

I remember when I first got bzflag working.  The game designers had (imho foolishly) decided to use two sets of ports for communicating with the servers.  I opened only the first set  of ports because I dind't know about the second set.  As a result, I could move around and see and talk to the players, but my shots passed through them and theirs through me.  I asked for help, but instead of actually listening to me and and realizing that I wasn't scoring any points, they just started to scream "CHEATER CHEATER CHEATER" and banned me from all the servers.

Dicks.

[pofnlice]

Yeah,,,BZFlag...Get blown up every 15 seconds...Still really fun though.