Let's assume one thing. Everyone reading this becuase at one point or another they played runescape. I don't know about you but it's the best FREE mmorpg I've ever played. That being said I hope everyone reading this has grown out of that 'stupid' game, for lack of a better word.

 

 

 

I was reading in PC Gamer magazine the other day and came upon an article about opensource games.

 

These wern't little games, I'm talking full blown games here.

 

 

 

Strange Attractors: This game is crazy hard, I compare it to 'Defend Your Castle'. Rather then throwing stickmen into the air you are using your 'mass' to slingshot yourself around planets (with the help of a tractor beam). The main mission is to get through the levels, but if you get to hear stickmen scream in the proccess it is deffeintly worth a looky-lue.

 

 

 

Torus Trooper: This is a crazy vector-based game that moves at lightning speed down a narrow wireframe tube. If you like space shooters this is deffeintly worth your time.

 

 

 

Alien Arena 2006: I'm still downloading this one but heres what the article in PC Gamer had to say.

 

"Maybe Quake 4's too beefy for your girly-man PC. Maybe Mom wouldn't let you buy Unreal Tournament 2004. Maybe your finances went all Enron on you. But this is America, and you're entitled to deathmatch. Alien Arena is a lean, fast-loading Quake III clone with large player base-and it even includes bots (if you're still clinging to your modem)."

 

 

 

I fully recomend these games. Reason being they are ALL well made and a very good thing to do if you have nothing else to do.

 

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That being said. Is anyone aware of how incredable games can be when they arn't motavated by money? Just pure raw passion goes into these open source games.

 

 

 

But yea, discuss further and post your favorite opensource game.

 

 

 

(if anyone has troubles finding these games on google tell me to put up the links, currently I'm not really in the mood to write them down.)

Americas Army is a great FPS game and its free.

Would be nice if you used the correct terms. I believe you were looking for Free Software, not Open Source. I spent some time googling and found that none of the games you listed are open source.

 

 

 

And as for them being full blown games, they definitely aren't when compared to most commercial titles.

Americas Army is a great FPS game and its free.

 

Hahaha...Ha.

Enemy Nations is a very nice RTS once you get into it, but the steep learning curve may drive you off if you're not a fan of the genre.

Would be nice if you used the correct terms. I believe you were looking for Free Software, not Open Source. I spent some time googling and found that none of the games you listed are open source.

 

 

 

And as for them being full blown games, they definitely aren't when compared to most commercial titles.

My bad, the article said 'open source collaborations'. They were prolly talking genrally. But yea that is a great reason to flame someone :roll: .

 

 

 

If you have ever tried to make a good program you would relize these are 'full blown'. Considering these are made by 1 or 2 individuals instead of a team............... Words can not describe how stupid you are.

 

 

 

I could have sworn I foundd a couple of these on google but here are the links anyways.

 

 

 

http://www.ominousdev.com (strange attractors)

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/ffcs8k-cyu/windows/tt_e.html (torus trooper, the link didnt work for me so i googled it...)

 

http://red.planetarena.org (alien arena)

 

 

 

Alien arena 2006 is really fun. I recomend all THREE.

 

 

 

Enemy Nations is a very nice RTS once you get into it, but the steep learning curve may drive you off if you're not a fan of the genre.

 

I don't understand why people think RTS's have learning curves.. They are all the same. I've had people try to convince me that starcraft has a learning curve. But I've got to give it a try before I say for sure.

Most RTS games only have a real learning curve that kicks in when you start playing online.

 

If you confine yourself to playing the AI, generally there is little to no learning curve present.

I found alien Arena horrible, Unreal Tournament-Any version is a much better game the graphics in alien arena were horribly done and the maps were small, confusing and looked horrible...

uninstalled alien arena after playing it for about 5 mins online

http://www.gunbound.com

 

http://www.rakion.com

 

 

 

try these two games and youll be blown off your seat

http://www.gunbound.com

 

 

 

 

from what ive seen in screenshots, this is like worms?

yes it is

 

 

 

btw if your looking for free mmorpg go on http://www.onrpg.com

It took me a week to complete the full download of America's Army.

 

 

 

Then it took me another week to complete basic training.

 

 

 

 

 

Few days later, a patch came out and I lost all my progress... :x

 

 

 

I deleted it the following day...

http://www.gunbound.com

 

http://www.rakion.com

 

 

 

try these two games and youll be blown off your seat

 

 

 

Truth. Only free games I'd recommend to someone, along with RS.

this website is fairly gd

 

 

 

 

 

u can look at viseo clips play games and listen to music to music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com

 

 

 

 

 

give it a try

It took me a week to complete the full download of America's Army.

 

 

 

Then it took me another week to complete basic training.

 

 

 

 

 

Few days later, a patch came out and I lost all my progress... :x

 

 

 

I deleted it the following day...

 

 

 

:D

 

 

 

I tried America's Army as well, I didn't care about it.

It took me a week to complete the full download of America's Army.

 

 

 

Then it took me another week to complete basic training.

 

 

 

 

 

Few days later, a patch came out and I lost all my progress... :x

 

 

 

I deleted it the following day...

 

 

 

:D

 

 

 

I tried America's Army as well, I didn't care about it.

 

 

 

It was fan-frieking-tastic in the 1.9 days =\

 

 

 

But then SF came out >.<