• ace_garp@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I would rate all of these, as worth a try:

      Shattered Pixel Dungeon

      Cube2:Sauerbraten

      SGT-Puzzles

      Andor’s Trail

      AssaultCube

      Minetest

      Neverball/Neverputt

      PowderToy

      0ad

      Fillets-ng

      Anuto TD

      Xmoto/Bloboats

      Flightgear

      Kobo Deluxe

      Enigma (oxyd)

      LiquidWar5

      H-Craft Championship

      Numpty Physics

      Wesnoth

      The Dark mod

      Have completed SuperTuxKart, BlobWars 1&2, Flare, Frozen Bubble, Hex-a-Hop, Holotz’s Castle, SearchAndRescue II, Alex the Alligator, Project:Starfighter, Stormbaan Coureur, Trigger, etc

      Used to enjoy Red Eclipse1.6, before it was retired.

      I’m looking for the name of a FLOSS Quake1-mod, puzzle game, that was about placing gravity points to curve a stream of particles around the level, and eventually into the goal target. (May have used irrlicht) If anyone knows the name of this one, please let me know, it is my white-whale of games.

      Can find details about most of the above games here:

      https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_games

      FLOSS gaming is excellent, thanks to all these devs and asset creators.

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        6 days ago

        I’d also recommend BZFlag, Xonotic, OpenClonk, and OpenLieroX. A surprising number of people are still playing BZFlag. Xonotic has some of the most fun weapon mechanics I’ve seen in an arena shooter and pretty much all of them can be used for movement shenanigans in different ways. OpenLieroX has a wealth of fun mods to mess around with.

        Would you count GZDoom and games that use its engine? Due to its license, devs of even commercial games made with it have to publish source code if they modify the engine and the very nature of the iwad files it uses means that all of iwad’s game code (I guess except compiled ACS scripts, which people don’t use as much anymore) is in plain text.

        Also I kinda still enjoy Red Eclipse 2.0 even if I found the balance and gameplay of 1.6 better and you can kinda mess around with the weapon variables until it does feel the same. Used to enjoy doing that a lot with 1.6, even doing stuff like turning the shotgun into a chaingun.

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          6 days ago

          IIRC, I prefer the physics and AI in LiquidWar 5.

          LW6 may have caught up in the last 10 years, I’ve not tried it in a while.

          Probably try both and see what you like.

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      6 days ago

      I would recommend Unciv. It’s a Civ5 clone that is surprisingly feature filled. Written in Java so you can play on desktop or Android.

      There is also FreeCiv but it tries to clone Civ2 which has dated mechanics by todays standards (but a lot of fans still I guess).