Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby GamingPenguin » 17 Oct 2014, 20:53

Hi all, I have been thinking about developing/helping others develop an open source point and click game for quite a while now. I was wonddering if there are any existing open source point and click games, or if anyone has any reccomendations for engines. I have been looking into Godot mainly.
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Postby Mumbo-Jumbo » 16 Nov 2014, 17:00

GoDot was used to create a Adventure Game. However, the only Guys whom i know to have released a full Game using GoDoT is the Team behind the Engine.
What about AGS?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/ags/faq/
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby GamingPenguin » 16 Nov 2014, 17:18

Thanks already looking into Godot but will look into AGS as well, though sadly this project has been put on hold in favour of a new game for now. Thanks so much anyway :D
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby rogerdv » 20 Nov 2014, 16:52

Godot is a good choice and we expect it to improve during development of their recently funded game. I would also recommend Urho3D.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby charlie » 02 Jan 2015, 12:20

There are... but I'm struggling to remember their names.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby jcantero » 03 Jan 2015, 12:26

In Debian there are at least 3 point&click adventures for ScummVM with DFSG compliant licenses:
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby Julius » 03 Jan 2015, 17:47

I think these run on SCUMMVM, which (as great a program it is for playing old adventures) isn't suitable for creating your own games. The developers of SCUMMVM even say so themselves.
AFAIK there is no sufficiently modern open point&click game (engine), but Godot, especially with their recent successful Kickstarter for creating such a game is probably going to be a very good choice very soon (and maybe is already now).
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby onpon4 » 03 Jan 2015, 18:42

Come to think of it, one of the entries to PyWeek 19 was a point-and-click adventure game. I thought it was pretty lame, but it's certainly functional:

https://pyweek.org/e/np8g/
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby GamingPenguin » 03 Jan 2015, 20:19

Decided I am going to try develop my game with Godot, wish me luck, it will be open source point and click of course
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby c_xong » 04 Jan 2015, 23:31

There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Studio which is more for making those old Sierra/LucasArts games where the avatar moves around the screen. Haven't used it myself but looks very mature.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby GamingPenguin » 04 Jan 2015, 23:49

AGS is great but the editor only supports Windows
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby rogerdv » 05 Jan 2015, 15:01

GamingPenguin {l Wrote}:Decided I am going to try develop my game with Godot, wish me luck, it will be open source point and click of course


Good choice. Im using Urho, but godot seems to have a bright future ahead.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby qubodup » 09 Apr 2015, 20:04

Is there a specific task you want to do? kq could use help fixing plot bugs and finishing the story: https://github.com/grrk-bzzt/kq-fork/issues - but it's a jRPG

Games:

Engines:
  • SLUDGE (game video) is a compiled engine which seems to be abandoned though. At least there's a blog post about the only developer with Windows and OS X access leaving the project. -
  • JSGAM (game video) is a javascript engine that has some usability issues (I mean the one game made with it is clunky).
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby MajorLunaC » 18 May 2015, 16:15

I do believe it may be possible with Ren'Py visual novel engine, but that depends on the features you want. Although I think most everything you can do in a point-and-click, you can do in an interactive visual novel, especially in Ren'Py which has various types of RPG modules made for it as well.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby Julius » 25 Jul 2015, 12:07

Somehow I completely forgot about Wintermute:
http://dead-code.org/home/
Bunch of commercial games done with it even, just finished playing JULIA Amongst the Stars on Linux (I guess running on Mono?).
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby jcantero » 26 Jul 2015, 16:53

Wintermute is Windows-only, though.

Double Fine talked about releasing as open source its MOAI based tool used to develop its Kickstarter adventure project (an in-house game editing tool called “2HB”), but they never delivered, at least to this day (I know because I was a backer).
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby Julius » 27 Jul 2015, 11:34

jcantero {l Wrote}:Wintermute is Windows-only, though.


I was confused about this too, but there seems to be a Linux version now:
http://res.dead-code.org/doku.php/wmelite:start

It's only the engine though... toolset seems to be still windows only (but it probably runs with WINE).
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby jcantero » 27 Jul 2015, 16:14

Julius {l Wrote}:I was confused about this too, but there seems to be a Linux version now:
http://res.dead-code.org/doku.php/wmelite:start

That's a good catch!

The code is MIT licensed and lives in this BitBucket (Hg) repo. Note that, unfortunately, it depends on a non-FLOSS sound library.
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Re: Are There Any Open Source Point and Click Games

Postby Akien » 27 Jul 2015, 16:22

jcantero {l Wrote}:The code is MIT licensed and lives in this BitBucket (Hg) repo. Note that, unfortunately, it depends on a non-FLOSS sound library.

Looks like there's a Makefile variant to build against SDL_mixer instead of BASS: https://bitbucket.org/MnemonicWME/wmeli ... at=default
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