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Well, there goes the rest of the week. I don't install games on my phone, but I always give SPD a pass because open source. The first time I installed it, I alm
by rjmill 3y ago
Well, there goes the rest of the week. I don't install games on my phone, but I always give SPD a pass because open source. The first time I installed it, I almost lost an internship because I was too focused on the game. The most recent time I installed it, my wife thought I was cheating on her because I was acting so shady and obsessive about my phone. Don't say I didn't warn y'all.
- Quiark 3y agoIf you only play open source mobile games and are afraid of wasting your time, make sure you avoid the factory tower defense game Mindustry which presents itself at https://mindustrygame.github.io/ https://mindustrygame.github.io/
- _kwef 3y agoWas on my way to suggest this game to avoid, which is also available for free on desktop.
- rizky05 3y agoMan, anyone will do what you are suggesting to avoid! we will bear the sin together.
- rjmill 3y agoOh no, it's on f-droid, my hands are tied! I'll have to ahem contribute my free time to this important open source library.
- epiccoleman 3y agoHonestly though, Mindustry is so much better with keyboard/mouse controls. It's a shockingly good mobile factory/automation type game, but I'd just rather play it on PC. (Or Mac, which runs it fine)
- IggleSniggle 3y agoSure, but it's much harder to hide your laptop screen under the covers at 2am, back to spouse, shielding the light, keeping your secret safe. Plus, a screen tap is much quieter than a laptop k/m. ...What? Nobody else is doing this?
- pjmlp 3y agoI have tried multiple times to play Mindustry, but always end giving up, it doesn't seem that well tested on touch screens. On one of my phones it doesn't even render whole the items on the screen, making some actions unselectable.
- jasonjayr 3y agoThe item box is scrollable. I didn't realize that till later in my game play. (I had been playing desktop version for some time) Also, the small activation regions for some items/blocks/selections suggest it may be easier to play with one of those touch-active styluses.
- ComodoHacker 3y agoAnd if you play on PC, also avoid Tales of Maj'Eyal (https://te4.org/ https://te4.org/), because of its depth and almost infinite replayability.
- indigochill 3y agoThe crazy imaginative class selection in ToME (special shoutout to the chronomancer) easily makes it my go-to roguelike, but I do find I have trouble really feeling what the impact of my build choices are, although this is a common feeling with roguelikes - I probably feel it more in ToME because it feels like every level-up has a much broader decision space than most other roguelikes. Also that most enemies (at least early game) aren't a major challenge until you hit one that wrecks you. Most of the time I go with "rule of cool", blaze ahead, and die somewhere around the time I get to the sandworm tunnels. The farthest I ever got was what felt like the first real boss who just teleports you to <FUN> which came out of left field and my character in that run was _not_ prepared to handle that.
- ComodoHacker 3y agoI'm still trying to beat it on normal difficulty. The farthest I got was first floors of the necromancer's tower, which is about 1/4 of the game AFAIK. I resist the temptation to try any add-on, there's so much fun without them.
- eek2121 3y agoThat is why I am a fan of games that buff your character over repeated runs. If more games did this, the difficulty slider could go away. As an added bonus, there is a satisfaction of getting to the point where you are so overpowered the game essentially breaks (see: vampire survivors)
- mdaniel 3y agothe "open source" part https://git.net-core.org/groups/tome https://git.net-core.org/groups/tome (GPLv3)
- ativzzz 3y agoCouldn't play it on mobile. The UI just did not feel mobile friendly at all
- remram 3y agoWhat does that mean?
- ativzzz 3y agoThe complexity of the game's interface was not converted to a high quality mobile interface. It work, sure, but it was not pleasant to use It's like viewing a desktop version of a website on mobile. It's usable, but kinda sucks and made me not want to play
- remram 3y agoI mean, what specifically seems not "high quality", "not pleasant", and "kinda sucks"? I ask because I played the game and found it very easy (though obviously not as fast as desktop, but since you can pause...)
- Fnoord 3y agoHow does it compare to They Are Billions [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Are_Billions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Are_Billions
- ronyeh 3y agoThey should put this review on their repo README. It’s making me want to play it. But it’s also making me scared to play it.
- jcul 3y agoI don't play any computer games these days and haven't since I was a kid. But I can confirm that pixel dungeon is an exception, I have lost many hours to it, but it has been years since I've played it. IIRC shattered is a fork with slightly different game play. I do love rogue like games.
- suprjami 3y agoMake sure you don't install Caves then, it's even better. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thirty.six.dev.underworld https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thirty.six.dev...
- sspiff 3y agoContains ads, hard pass.
- INTPenis 3y agoI'd pay a one time cost of 20-30 dollars just to get rid of the ads.
- suprjami 3y agoHaven't seen an ad in many years. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
- sspiff 3y agoMe neither, because I don't install apps which have ads :) I've never had much luck with system wide VPN-based ad blockers, and I don't have a rooted phone.
- stavros 3y agoI made a relevant thing: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
- katzenversteher 3y agoI had the same issue and my solution was: I modified the code of the game to add cheats (make my character super durable), compiled it myself and loaded the apk onto my phone. Then I finally finished the game and my addiction ended.
- vector_rotcev 3y agoI like this. Both for the astute problem identification and the self-empowered solution.
- katzenversteher 3y agoUsually I try to avoid cheats but I use them it in situations where I either get badly addicted or where I notice that I'm losing a lot of time with repetitive grinding
- lupusreal 3y agoI just play as an archer/warden. It's a pretty easy class, I can beat the game maybe one in five times. Once you get the nature footwear artifact you've as good as won, and if you get a blooming weapon then it's a cakewalk.
- nataliste 3y agoSniper is easier in my opinion. If you find a ring of marksmanship, it becomes pretty trivial with the sniper's armor bypassing and tier upgrades to the bow. I think anyone hunting for a first win should play as a huntress or mage. Ranged attacks are pretty overpowered in comparison to melee and don't require as much position play. And since both classes begin with their final weapon, you don't need to rely too much on the RNG to survive.
- brightball 3y agoWell, that's a pretty solid endorsement. I never tried World of Warcraft years ago until that South Park episode came out. Currently about the only games I still play on my phone are chess and Plants vs Zombies 2, which for some reason has had me hooked since the very first one came out. Luckily, my wife likes it too.
- haloboy777 3y agoI can confirm everything he's saying.
- Spellman 3y agoFree Open Source??? Unciv https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
- raffraffraff 3y agoI spent way too much time playing xonotic