Comment by 🐧 krash

Re: "Current projects of interest"

In: s/LinuxGaming

try out Unciv, that's a very solid FOSS civ-clone (also available on android)

🐧 krash

Apr 15 · 7 weeks ago

7 Later Comments ↓

☕️ tenno-seremel · Apr 16 at 06:47:

There is “instead” engine, if you are into text quests. Although I'm unsure how many English stories exist for it.

🌻 softwarepagan · Apr 16 at 14:35:

We really are in the golden age of Linux gaming.

🍵 netawa [OP] · Apr 16 at 14:42:

Thanks for suggested stuff. Will check a lot of them, especially unciv and openTTD. As for myself - today i was trying to put together bottles to play Melty blood Actress Again. Still work in progress but seems like it will work fine.

🎵 xavi · Apr 17 at 21:28:

Speed Dreams is another interesting choice. It is a free and open source racing simulator, originally forked from TORCS:

— Speed Dreams (SourceForge)

Since the previous project lead retired from the project a few months ago, I took on the role and we are now making some effort to modernise the project, such as migrating to Git and move away from SourceForge, as well as making licensing clearer.

🚀 byzoni · Apr 18 at 04:23:

I liked the strategy

— Zero-K

🐰 jojo · Apr 18 at 23:47:

there is the game called hedgewars that is like the worms games

🍵 netawa [OP] · Apr 21 at 04:33:

Aaaand for another late status, heh

Got more ram so decided to try pcsx2, runs well so i have ps2 library too now.

also i found out about openKh project. its not finished, but curious to follow. basically an attempt to reverse engineer Kingdom hearts 2 engine and if they manage to do it, it will allow custom maps and native ports for the game almost everywhere what sounds good.

Next on list should be soem of my steam games, OpenTTD and Unciv

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Current projects of interest — I have just moved in to Linux recently and didnt expect so much stuff still working. I will list a few which interested me so far: - open arena (being fan of quake 3 from childhood, that was.. very pleasant discovery) - 0 a.d. (expected a civ clone, got something more interesting) - openmw (great engine rewrite which also opened doors to more cursed stuff like online mode >:) - Fightcade/GGPOZ (not fully opensource, but good projects on their own - aiming to bring...

💬 netawa · 10 comments · Apr 15 · 7 weeks ago · #gaming #linux #open_source