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It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games
by mdf 11y ago
It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s).
Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few:
* OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games.
* Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and Pentagram[8] for Ultima VI-VIII respectively.
* GZDoom[9] (and various others) for running Doom, Doom II etc.
* Freeciv[10] for running Civilization.
[1] https://openmw.org/ https://openmw.org/
[2] http://openra.net/ http://openra.net/
[3] http://openttd.org/ http://openttd.org/
[4] http://openrct.net/ http://openrct.net/
[5] http://openxcom.org/ http://openxcom.org/
[6] http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/ http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/
[7] http://exult.sourceforge.net/ http://exult.sourceforge.net/
[8] http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/ http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/
[9] http://forum.drdteam.org/viewforum.php?f=23 http://forum.drdteam.org/viewforum.php?f=23
[10] http://www.freeciv.org/ http://www.freeciv.org/
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoThe Doom ecosystem is huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_source_ports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_source_ports
- Pxtl 11y agoWell, Doom source ports started from Carmack's source, that's a bit different than these clean-room from-scratch reimplementations.
- SXX 11y agoI'll add VCMI to your list as it's project I work on. It's open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III. We're always happy to see any C++ programmers who wish to join us! http://vcmi.eu/ http://vcmi.eu/ https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi
- qznc 11y agoThe longest list I know of is http://osgameclones.com/ http://osgameclones.com/
- lagudragu 11y agoGreat list!
- mikepurvis 11y agoIt's not a super-active project these days, but I'd also mention OpenJazz: http://www.alister.eu/jazz/oj/ http://www.alister.eu/jazz/oj/ I did a homebrew formula for it a while back, though there's a more complete one now in homebrew/games: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-games/blob/master/openjazz.rb https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-games/blob/master/openj...
- gosub 11y agoone of the last tweets from @_why said: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.
- dafrankenstein2 11y agosaid right
- adsche 11y agoAmazing indeed. I'd add to that list OpenJK for the Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast games [1]. This is actually based on the released original source code, but continues to improve it and fix bugs while maintaining backwards compatibility. Great work. (As with most of these, assets from original CD are needed to play.) [1] https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
- sachdevap 11y agoThere is also the clone for Caesar III. Found here: https://bitbucket.org/dalerank/caesaria/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/dalerank/caesaria/wiki/Home One of my favorite games and Caesaria, last I checked had some bugs, but pretty playable.
- rkuykendall-com 11y agoYeah, last I checked it wasn't playable yet ( due to a bug they probably fixed quickly ), but they were moving damn fast! I don't remove it from my steam because I love seeing updates come in. Looking forward to trying it again soon and seeing all the improvements :)
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- dschep 11y agoAnd CorsixTH for Theme Hospital! https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH
- bsharitt 11y agoDon't forget Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft).
- unicornporn 11y agoDon't forget http://www.freecol.org/ http://www.freecol.org/
- baq 11y agoI'll add Spring, which started as a Total Annihilation engine, but has since grown into a full blown RTS engine. https://springrts.com/ https://springrts.com/
- contravariant 11y agoYet more evidence that things should become public domain after 15 years.
- glandium 11y agoLet's not forget scummvm for Lucas Arts adventure games (with support for other adventure games data added later)