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I'm not sure that I would call some of these "clones". ioquake3 for example is the community maintained modernized fork of the Quake 3 engine source that id re
by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not sure that I would call some of these "clones". ioquake3 for example is the community maintained modernized fork of the Quake 3 engine source that id released. You can't do much with it without your own assets (either the original Quake3 assets, the OpenArena assets (that game is what I would call the Quake3 "clone"), or assets from any number of Quake 3 mods (tremulous, urban terror, etc).
I think ioquake3 is an example of where open source game devs are at their best. Providing modern engines (ideally from the original source, but not necessarily) to old games so that people can continue to reasonably play them. OpenTTD would be another example.
- zanny 13y agoOpenTTD created their own assets a while ago so they can distribute the entire game libre, it is like UrbanTerror + ioquake3.
- dietrichepp 13y agoExcept Urban Terror is not open source. You cannot get the source code anywhere. (It is gratis/無料 but not libre/自由.)
- ekianjo 13y agoWhy the japanese characters ? :) You could have use the free beer, free speech analogy :)
- dietrichepp 13y agoThey're Chinese characters, which are used to write the Japanese language. Just like we use Latin characters to write the English language.
- piranha 13y agoYou are right, ioquake3 is not a clone. It's still really prominent and I don't want to omit it. As for OpenArena, this is more 'inspired by', since in my opinion 'clone' follows original game a bit closer. I agree that the difference can be subtle, but that's how I've chosen to treat those words. :)
- willvarfar 13y agoHow about Megaglest? Very active development, very playable, lots of modders.
- piranha 13y agoBut it had no precursor. While the project certainly looks nice, it's outside of objectives of this site. Edit: Hm, I'm sorry, original Glest is from 2004. Maybe I should include this in the end...
- twelvechairs 13y agoSimilarly, Abuse is not a 'clone' but was released into the public domain in its entirety and has had some work done to it since (cross platform porting, etc.)
- Svip 13y agoLike the Ur-Quan Masters of Star Control 2. They only had to change the name for legal reasons.
- sageikosa 13y agoWhy wouldn't a forked distribution be considered a "clone"? If bio-clones start from the same DNA, distribution "clones" start from the same source code... A reverse-engineered game might be better termed a "dopple-gamer", since if didn't start from identical source.