Red Alert and other classic strategy games rebuilt and open source
Red Alert and other classic strategy games rebuilt and open source
Open source games are so refreshing. They focus on gameplay much more than anything else
it also blows my mind how easy they are to distribute in linux.
I loved CnC Generals (of course I played as China), hope this will ported to debian-like systems.
I like to play as GLA, they have such a great postal service. Also the GLA has the best faction soundtrack
That's right, they are nice to play, but do not have the best TANKS, as China :)
I don't think you have to wait - there are AppImages, Flatpaks, and even Deb's for Ubuntu available. Surely one of those will work on your Debian system?
Oh I will try when I get some spare time to enjoy the game, thank you.
I fucking love the FOSS community.
I think learning from these guys what it actually means to own something was likely the gateway that got me interested in the same values that opened me up to communism.
Yea right? It is such a collectivistic effort but for some reason the community is full of libertarians and such lol.
foss makes me hopeful for the future of computing, i literally just put a single command on the terminal and i can already play it.
What other games? I only see RA
The OpenRA Games (aka Mods)
Games built using the OpenRA engine are known as “mods”. The OpenRA development team maintain the three official mods that can be downloaded from this website, but many more are developed and maintained by the OpenRA community.
Tiberian Dawn
An alliance of nations fights to protect Europe and northern Africa from a mysterious terrorist organization and the valuable but toxic alien mineral, Tiberium, that is slowly spreading over the world.
The Tiberian Dawn mod focuses on fast and fluid play, taking heavy influences from modern RTS games with features like multiple-queue production.
Red Alert
In a world where Hitler was assassinated and the Third Reich never existed, the Soviet Union seeks power over all of Europe. Allied against this Evil Empire, the free world faces a Cold War turned red hot.
The Red Alert mod focuses on strategy, providing a range of units and tactics to conquer the land, sea, and air.
Dune 2000
Three great houses fight for the precious spice melange. He who controls the spice controls the universe! Establish a foothold on the desert planet Arrakis, where your biggest threat is the environment.
The Dune 2000 mod currently focuses on providing an experience that is authentic to the original game.
Tiberian Sun
The next major goal for OpenRA is to support the second generation of Command & Conquer games, starting with Tiberian Sun.
The game engine features to support Tiberian Sun are still in development. The mod is not included with the OpenRA installer, but the source code is available in our GitHub repository. Please note that we do not provide support for incomplete development builds.
Building Custom Mods
Find community mods on ModDB
OpenRA is designed as a general purpose RTS game engine with strong modding support. The OpenRA Mod SDK provides tools to develop and release your own projects. Each new OpenRA release brings many improvements and fixes created for, and by, the modding community. A collection of community-built mods and games can be found on OpenRA's ModDB page.
I'd like to see more, but the only ones that I know of are red eclipse (kind of like halo), 0AD (kind of like age of empires), and minetest (Minecraft but really made so that each server can have any number of ridiculous difference in gameplay because of mods).
Here's a start:
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games
- https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
- https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
- https://github.com/leereilly/games
- Updated Version: https://github.com/Yaksinikos/games
I mentioned some games on Lemmygrad a few months ago: