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Yet for some reason extremely few games have followed id's example. Besides Duke 3d, what other games ever saw source release?

by zanny 11y ago

mazatta 11y ago
The only one off the top of my head is Serious Sam: https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine
llasram 11y ago
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...
newobj 11y ago
NOLF: https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever
- justinlardinois 11y ago
  That's really cool. Kotaku ran an article <a year ago about the licensing issues around No One Lives Forever and how it would probably never make it to Steam; I'm surprised they never mentioned that the source code has been available for 4 years, buildable by anyone.
PhasmaFelis 11y ago
I guess part of the problem is that most producers don't want to open-source a game until it's stopped making significant money, and most games are largely forgotten by that time, so there's less incentive to bother in the first place, and (perhaps more importantly) no press when it does happen. (That Wikipedia article is surprisingly long, but I haven't heard of most of the entries.)
gcb0 11y ago
id software followed up with lots. quake and enemy territory were amazing. we played hours and hours every week of enemy territory in the office in 2007-2009 ... on Linux (and the occasional Windows and Mac in the same server) no less!
fzzzy 11y ago
Marathon: http://infinitysource.bungie.org/ http://infinitysource.bungie.org/ SoftDorothy: https://github.com/softdorothy https://github.com/softdorothy I wish there were more. Edit: Abuse: http://abuse.zoy.org/ http://abuse.zoy.org/ It was so rare back in the day that I vividly remember games that did actually go open source.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Oh, Abuse. I loved this game. It was also my first encounter with Lisp, many years before I learned how it's called and what it is.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
FreeSpace 2 -- http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/. It got seriously remastered thanks to that.

Yet for some reason extremely few games have followed id's example. Besides Duke 3d, what other games ever saw source release?

by zanny 11y ago

Yet for some reason extremely few games have followed id's example. Besides Duke 3d, what other games ever saw source release?

mazatta 11y ago

The only one off the top of my head is Serious Sam: https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

llasram 11y ago

Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...

newobj 11y ago

NOLF: https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever

justinlardinois 11y ago
That's really cool. Kotaku ran an article <a year ago about the licensing issues around No One Lives Forever and how it would probably never make it to Steam; I'm surprised they never mentioned that the source code has been available for 4 years, buildable by anyone.

PhasmaFelis 11y ago

I guess part of the problem is that most producers don't want to open-source a game until it's stopped making significant money, and most games are largely forgotten by that time, so there's less incentive to bother in the first place, and (perhaps more importantly) no press when it does happen. (That Wikipedia article is surprisingly long, but I haven't heard of most of the entries.)

gcb0 11y ago

id software followed up with lots. quake and enemy territory were amazing. we played hours and hours every week of enemy territory in the office in 2007-2009 ... on Linux (and the occasional Windows and Mac in the same server) no less!

fzzzy 11y ago

Marathon: http://infinitysource.bungie.org/ http://infinitysource.bungie.org/ SoftDorothy: https://github.com/softdorothy https://github.com/softdorothy I wish there were more. Edit: Abuse: http://abuse.zoy.org/ http://abuse.zoy.org/ It was so rare back in the day that I vividly remember games that did actually go open source.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
Oh, Abuse. I loved this game. It was also my first encounter with Lisp, many years before I learned how it's called and what it is.

TeMPOraL 11y ago

FreeSpace 2 -- http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/. It got seriously remastered thanks to that.