UFO:Alien Invasion
Offtopic => Offtopic => Topic started by: BTAxis on May 29, 2006, 10:13:11 pm
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This seems appropriate for an off-topic thread. Let's have ourselves a list of other freeware (open or closed) game projects out there. I'll post the ones I feel are worth mentioning here.
The Battle for Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org/) is one of the better known ones out there. Many people love it, but I didn't enjoy it much. If I want a strategy RPG, I'll take Langrisser or Fire Emblem. Oh well.
Cube (http://www.cubeengine.com/) is a freeware FPS. It's a lot like Quake 1, except the engine is totally different. For instance, you make maps in-game. You can even make maps in multiplayer, which you have to admit is cool. Though Cube isn't being developed anymore, its spiritual successor Sauerbraten is.
FreeOrion (http://www.cubeengine.com/) is an open-source clone of Master of Orion 2. Development is slow, but it looks promising.
Iter Vehemens ad Necem (http://ivan.sourceforge.net/) is a roguelike RPG. It looks slightly better than ordinary roguelikes.
King's Quest IX (http://www.kqix.com/) is a fan-made sequel in the world famous King's Quest series. They were shut down by Vivendi, who owns the KQ copyrights, but then they were granted a licence to continue.
DOOM Legacy (http://legacy.newdoom.com/) is the best freeware port of DOOM out there. Ideal for people like me who dislike modern FPS games, and prefer the old stuff in a new environment.
Mind Arms (http://hb8.seikyou.ne.jp/home/fjj/page30.html), a Japanese fighting game. Well, it's not that good. But it's free.
Scorched Earth 3D (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/). What it says. Scorched Earth, except in 3D. If you don't know what Scorched Earth is, you're square (and if you REALLY don't know, it's the game Worms was based on).
Space Quest 7 (http://www.sq7.org/) is like KQIX, except with Roger Wilco. Development is progressing steadily, and at this rate it might be done somewhere in the twenty-fifth century.
Transcendence (http://neurohack.com/transcendence/index.html) is a rather crappy game similar to Escape Velocity. On the upside, unlike Escape Velocity, it's freeware. Unlike Escape Velocity, it's not written for the Mac.
Ultimate Stunts (http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/) is a remake of the classic game Stunts. It doesn't work very well, though. The (commercial) Trackmania is a lot better if you want a stunts-like game.
Vega Strike (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/) is a space simulator like Privateer and X/X2/X3. Some day, it might be really good, but I kind of doubt it.
There are also any number of freeware point-and-click adventure games available on http://www.bigbluecup.com/
Furthermore, there are many roguelikes and some MMORPGs that are freeware, but as I'm not interested in games like that I'll leave it to other people to link to them.
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i would like to mention
ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org) ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, Monkey Island, Broken Sword and so on.
World of Padman (http://www.worldofpadman.org) is a great (not to say the greatest) Quake3 Mod available. It´s a funmod based on a comic.
Glest (http://www.glest.org) is a free 3D real time strategy game.
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As you might have seen im my sig already i'm also involved with the Linux Gamer Guide (http://linux.strangegamer.com) Wiki. Have a look into the Game List (http://linux.strangegamer.com/index.php?title=Game_List). There are a lot of gems in there and you can also search them roughly by license and other criteria.
The games i'm playing or looking forward to are listen on my own page there (http://linux.strangegamer.com/index.php?title=User:Hoehrer).
Feel free to add your own page (after creating an account) and/or enhancing the game-list.
Werner
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http://exult.sf.net - Ultima 7 engine remake
http://pentagram.sf.net - same for Ultima 8 and cruaseder game series (no regred, no remorse)
http://openttd.sf.net - same for Transport Tycoon Deluxe
http://tsshp.sf.net - system shock 1
http://uwadv.sf.net - Ultima Underworld 1
http://low.sf.net - Ultima Underworld 1
http://sc2.sf.net - Star Control 2
http://ufo2000.sf.net - multiplayer in ufo (currently, singleplay is planned)
http://freesci.linuxgames.com same as ScummVM for some classic Sierra games (based on SCI engine, those which based on AGI now bieng supported by ScummVM)
another UFO remakes
http://www.projectxenocide.com
http://www.xforce-online.de
http://i2021.release.ru well, this one is in russian
sites fully dedicated to remakes
http://www.retroremakes.com/
http://www.merseyremakes.co.uk/
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Virtul: Are these Crusader things work already? i loved this game and somewhere in my sorted chaos there must be a cd with "no remorse"
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nope =( Pentagram is a WIP project and at this very moment it you can only complete Ultima 8 game with it, many features are still not wotking tho
since U8 is their main aim, once it will be fully supported, they will start implementing full Cruaseder games support
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_amateur_adventure_games
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* http://www.c-evo.org - Freeware empire building game for Windows.
Based on Microprose's famous Sid Meier's Civilization,
but more emphasis on fair and powerful AI
* http://www.asc-hq.org - Advanced Strategic Command: a free,
turn based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle from Bluebyte
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ASC is pretty crappy, though. Far too many features to be fun.
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Realms of Rivalry, http://www.realmsofrivalry.org Online turn-based strategy/rpg game where you can play short tactical skirmishes with 2-4 players in small randomly generated game worlds.
My favourite ;)
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nixrlame
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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ A dos emulator, probably the best available(damn I hate to type that word). However, you'll have to tune the CPU cycles and frameskip yourself, In DOS itself, it was done automatically, so Here games can be real slow in the beginning.
http://crimson.seul.org/ A turn-based strategy similiar to battle isle. The developement seems to have stopped.
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Most of these projects are familar to me, but there is still one I haven't seen mentioned, and it's finished.
It's a Privateer (1) remake.. very good IMO.
http://priv.solsector.net/
For adventure games, see http://www.agdinteractive.com/
For Prince of Persia fans, go to:
http://www.princed.com.ar/ - remake and projects
http://home.connexus.net.au/~bcjames/roomshaker/index.htm - the home of the RoomShaker editor, an program for editing original PoP (1989) levels. You can also make your own level sets.
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http://priv.solsector.net/
I'd like to point out that this is built on the Vega Strike engine (see my first post here), and that ISN'T finished. I don't know if this TC can be applied to newer versions of Vega Strike, though, so it may not matter.
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Mea culpa. Well, I haven't played the game. I had the impression that it's finished. Anyway, it looks very good... but I'm a big fan of Privateer 2 the Darkening... and have my finger crossed for a remake :D
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BTAxis, I think your first post has a small bug in it. Freeorion link leads to the Cube engie page.
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Tremulous Tremulous.net A free FPS with some RTS elements based on the quake3 engine.
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Some games from this page are cross-platform, not only for Linux:
http://www.happypenguin.org
For example:
Freeciv
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Freeciv
http://www.freeciv.org/
Freeciv Screenshot Freeciv is a multiplayer strategy game.
Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization.
Players of Civilization II® by Microprose® should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have compatible rules.