List of open source games Thread - Linux Gamers

Hi, Linux Gamers.

I made a suggestion list of open source games wich are not in the Desura catalogue. Of course we don't need all of this games just pick the best!

Good License
Bad License
Status
Reason why we can't see this game in Desura

Action
- Hedgewars - Video - GPL
- Teeworlds - Video - BSD-like
- Open LieroX - Video - GPL
- Battle Tanks - Video - GPL
- Scorched 3D -Video - GPL
- MTP Target - Video - GPL
- ZEQ2 Lite - Video - Code: GPL Data: The DBZ licence is property of Pony Canyon
- FLARE - Video - GPL - Alpha - Just a tech demo
- Summoning Wars - Video - GPL - Alpha
- Ardentryst - Video - GPL

Adventure, RPG and MMORPG
- FreedroidRPG - Video - GPL
- Jclassic RPG - Video - GPL
- Aquaria - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source
- Hero of Allacrost -Video - GPL - Demo
- PARPG -Video - Code: GPL Data: CC By Sa - Alpha
- Ryzom -Video - Code: GPL Data: CC By Sa
- GNU Free Dink - Video - GPL
- The Mana World - Video - GPL

Driving
- Vdrift - Video - GPL
- Super Tux Kart - Video - Code: GPL Data: CC by Sa - Alpha

Platform
- Frogatto - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source
- Secret Maryo Chronicles - Video - GPL - Maybe a problem with the name
- Supertux - Video - GPL
- X-moto - Video - GPL
- Nikki and the Robots - Video - GPL
- Rainy Day - Video - GPL - Alpha
- Yo Frankie! - Video - GPL

Arcade
- Armagetron Advanced - Video - GPL
- Astro Menace - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source
- Kobo Deluxe - Video - GPL
- Frozen Bubble - Video - GPL
- Chromium BSU - Video - GPL
- Word War Vi - Video - GPL
- Those funny funguloids - Video - Zlib
- Power Manga - Video - GPL
- TechnoballZ - Video - GPL
- Project Starfighter - GPL
- Open BOR - Video - ?
- Garden of coloured lights - Video - Code: GPL Data: music from Aleste

Simulation
- Flightgear - Video - GPL
- Freespace 2 - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source - Data owned by Volition
(And all the mods around Freespace 2)
- Rigs of Rod - Video - GPL
- Danger from the Deep - Video - GPL
- OpenBVE - Video - Public Domain
- Lin City NG - Video - GPL
- OoLite - Video - GPL
- Pioneer - Video - GPL

Strategy
- 0.A.D. -Video - Code: GPL Data: CC By Sa - Alpha
- Unknown Horizons -Video - Code: GPL Data: CC By Sa - Beta
- Battle for wesnoth -Video - GPL
- Freeciv -Video - GPL
- Liquid War -Video - GPL
- Pax Britannica -Video - MIT
- Simutrans -Video - Artistic
- Energy Tycoon - Video - MIT
- Zod Engine -Video - GPL
- Freecol -Video - GPL
- Kernel Panic -Video - GPL
- Spring 1944 -Video - GPL
- Zero-K -Video - Code: GPL Data: CC by
- Balanced Annihilation -Video - Code: GPL Data: some assets are closed source
- Mega Glest -Video - Code: GPL Data: ?
- Widelands -Video - GPL
- Open RA - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source - Data owned by EA
- Conflict Terra - Video - GPL
- Free Orion - Video - GPL
- Corsix TH - Video - Code: MIT Data: closed source / Abandonware - Data owned by EA
- Crimson Fields - Video - GPL
- Open Imperum Galactica - Video - LGPL
- Net Panzer - Video - GPL

FPS
- Skulltag - Video - ZDoom
- Nexuiz Classic - Video - GPL
- Assault Cube - Video - Code: GPL Data: closed source
- Quake2World -Video - GPL - Alpha
- Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge - Video - GPL

Puzzle
- Berusky 2 - GPL
- Wizznic! -Video - GPL
- Jag - GPL
- Zaz - Video - GPL
- Amoebax - LGPL
- Nimuh -Video - Public Domain
- Numpty Physics -Video - GPL
- Fish Fillets NG -Video - GPL
- JVGS - Video - WTFPL
- PokerTH - Video - GPL
- Kiki the Nanobot - Public Domain
- Cubosphere -Video - GPL - Alpha
- CG Madness - Video - GPL
- Trackballs - Video - GPL
- Pacaman - Free and open source but, licence? - Alpha
- Pingus - Video - GPL
- Ri-Li - Video - GPL
- Wagic - Video - BSD
- Enigma - Video - GPL
- Open Alchemist - Code: GPL Data: CC By Sa

Music
- Frets on Fire and FoFix -Video - GPL - Fofix needs a pack with libre songs
- Ultrastar Deluxe -Video - GPL - Ultrastar needs a pack with libre songs
- Stepmania -Video - MIT

Sandboxes
- Platinum Arts Sandbox - Video - Cube2
- The Powder Toy - Video - GPL
- Minetest c55 - Video - GPL - Alpha

Roguelike:
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Nethack General Public License
- Atrinik - GPL
- GoblinHack - GPL
- Egoboo - Video - GPL
- Lips of Suna - Video - GPL - Beta
- Angband - GPL

Sport:
- Yodasoccer - Video - GPL

Edited by: ./raiden

Edit: Never mind. Oil Rush seems to be on Desura already!

Edited by: Cheeseness

Oil Rush is a great game but it's not open source.

./raiden wrote: Oil Rush is a great game but it's not open source.

Are Darwinia and Multiwinia open source? Sure?

Cheeseness wrote: Edit: Never mind. Oil Rush seems to be on Desura already!

It is?

Someone wrote: Coming soon to Desura.

yay! you are right (close enough)

joeka wrote:
Are Darwinia and Multiwinia open source? Sure?

Yes, sure! :)

Oh yes, I knew that, but that's not open source, because of the license.

./raiden wrote: Oil Rush is a great game but it's not open source.

Yeah, sorry. For some reason I thought the last group was commercial games.

Kiki The Nanobot may not be the prettiest game on the face of the planet, but it's definitely a great puzzle game and might belong in the list.

Edited by: Cheeseness

what about "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul"?

Savage series are all freewares, close source.

Any Open Source games you want to see on the system have the developers make an account and PM me and we can work on getting their games on the system. I can't do all the games, graphics, screenshots, videos, etc. all by myself. If the developers or someone in the community would take over specific games that would help me quite a bit in being able to get more and more games on the system.

There are some games posted here as Open Source that are not:

Inside a Star filled Sky -Video - Commerical, the source is only available if you purchase the game and it's not GPL.
Sleep is death -Video - Commerical, the source is only available if you purchase the game and it's not GPL.
Aquaria - Video - The source code is available but the graphics aren't free.
Darwinia - Video - Not free and source only available to licensed developers who purchase the developer kit, not GPL
Multiwinia - Video - Not free and no source code available that I know of.
Return to castle Wolfenstein - Video - Not free you have to buy the game even though the Linux engine is released for use with Windows purchases.

Q3Rally ca not be included because some of the graphics are under a CC non-commerical license. So that would rule out us putting it on the system for free.

Corsix-TH (Theme Hospital) uses the original data files from the game Theme Hospital so we would not be able to distribute it.

Don't be ridiculous... Sleep is Death is open-source. NO TERMS of Open Source forbid access to code with cost as long as the code it allow to free redistribute. Its code under Public Domain.

archl wrote: Savage series are all freewares, close source.

Fixed, thanks.

I'm going to delete Multiwinia and Darwinia but the other games have an open engine, so i think it's ok.
PS: GPL is not the only licence to open source code. (BSD, zlib, WTFPL, etc)

Added: Kiki the Nanobot and GoblinHack.

Edited by: ./raiden

archl wrote: Don't be ridiculous... Sleep is Death is open-source. NO TERMS of Open Source forbid access to code with cost as long as the code it allow to free redistribute. Its code under Public Domain.

I never said it wasn't allowed. What I said was that it was commerical (yes you have to buy it to get it) and that it wasn't GPL. Nowhere on the site does it say exactly what the license is for the source code. It just says it is Open Source, without a link back to OSI even though he is using their logo. I have seen people say they are Open Source when in fact you read license and it wouldn't qualify for Open Source. I have no idea about this one since the license is not posted. For the source code to be public domain the developer would have to explicitly put it in the public domain since in the US everything is copyright the moment it is made.

Any game put on Desura that is free would either have to have the developer's permission or have a license that does not prohibit commercial use/distribution.

What exactly you take as rule to include or not include games in the "upcoming" section? After all you have there long time projects like 0AD while next to it bare-bone stuff like pseudofram (tech-demo).

The only rule is : "great and not bad"
0.A.D. is great, Pseudoform is not bad, finaly it's very subjective. I have grouped them in this section because anyway they are all at a stage where they can not be included.

Need rates?

EDIT: Fixed?

Edited by: ./raiden

It's just that you can't really judge if a game is great or bad before the release especially if it's in infancy stage or simply not released yet. If you want to make a list you would have to include then all titles on IndieDB in the Linux/Unreleased category or none at all. Otherwise it's quite selective.

It is selective, yes.
Games must be open source first, the main problem is i don't know the others, if you know one i will add it with pleasure.

Edited by: ./raiden

As mentioned, IndieDB with Linux as platform and Unreleased as filter gives quite the selection. Can't link the search though since Linux as platform is not included in the URL but is stored in POST or something I guess.

I don't really go for that sort of game (possibly because I can play an actual guitar), but a lot of my friends seem to like Frets On Fire.

I think the platform ends up being a property of the session, Dragonlord.

Edited by: Cheeseness

Added next Fofix (because Fofix is a fork of Frets on Fire).

Im going to search open source games in IndieDB, i hope i will find some fabulous treasures!

Edited by: ./raiden

You want to know more Linux games, then visit Lgdb.org , listing 964 games to date

There's a good number (with ratings) at Happypenguin.org too

I don't have time to test all of them on IndieDB but i added OGS Mahjong, Warlock's Gauntlet, Open Clonk and Neverputt.

There are some others open source games in Happypenguin and Lgdb but honestly most of them are made like in a coding week-end. So i think the better choice is to put games we like to see on the Desura Catalogue. If you think about another open source game you like, just tell me i add it.

PS: If you hate a game on this list I can remove it too.

Edited by: ./raiden

I guess it's a good thing I added Neverputt to IndieDB a couple of days ago then, lol

Edited by: Cheeseness

>Of course we don't need all of this games just pick the best

Why can all the games be added ? More games will definitely not harm desura.