- http://uzebox.org/wiki/Games_and_Demos UzeBox games, all seem to be GPLv3
- http://legacy.gamebuino.com/wiki/index.php?title=Games Gamebuino Classic (B&W) games
- https://gamebuino.com/creations Gamebuino META (color) games
- https://community.arduboy.com/c/games Arduboy community forum, many small FOSS games
- http://arduboy.ried.cl/ Erwin's Arduboy game collection, tagged libre games
- https://talk.pokitto.com/c/programmers-talk Pokitto games
- https://tinycircuits.com/blogs/games Tiny Arcade games
- https://gbhh.avivace.com/games open source games for GameBoy
- https://tic.computer/ TIC-80 FOSS fantasy console (sadly not so many FOSS games)
Can it sort/filter by license and/or programming language?
Trilarion {l Wrote}:Hi Andrettin, nice to hear from you. If you want, you can check the entry for Wyrmsun and tell me if something can be improved. Are there official build instructions?
Andrettin {l Wrote}:...Thanks for creating an entry for Wyrmsun there ...
dulsi {l Wrote}:Looks like it is missing some games available on Fedora, Legend of Edgar, Shippy 1984 and Seahorse Adventures for example. Looks like some entries are old as well. I looked at Story of a Lost Sky. I don't think the source code is available any more which is too bad. Anybody have a copy?
On libraries, I recommend adding my libgamerzilla. You can find some more games on my github/gitlab.
I do love lists like this. I often find games I didn't know about.
bzt {l Wrote}:Awesome list! Thank you! Would it be possible to visually distinguish discontinued projects from the actively developed ones? Also adding a few more screenshots would be really nice.
Hmm, I can't see those, here's a screenshot. I'm using Linux, Firefox 93.Trilarion {l Wrote}:There is a small visual indicator (a sun or moon) for active vs. discontinued and in the index pages
That's cool! I think your limitations are reasonable, but IMHO you should aim at having one screenshot per game at first. That's still quite a task, but would increase your site's value by a lot. For example, I've clicked here and despite all of the details there I couldn't tell what the most interested me: what kind of game that is (strategy could be RTS, turn-based, Starcraft-like small battle field based or Civilisation-like world-sized 4X etc.).Trilarion {l Wrote}:Screenshots is an ongoing project, however, since the main focus is on technical info, I decided on not more than three screenshots per game (and no videos).
Yeah, the point is I only want to leave your site if I like what I see on the screenshot :-)Trilarion {l Wrote}:For that one would simply visit the game home page.
bzt {l Wrote}:Hmm, I can't see those, here's a screenshot. I'm using Linux, Firefox 93.Trilarion {l Wrote}:There is a small visual indicator (a sun or moon) for active vs. discontinued and in the index pages
For me, there's no visual difference between "A Planet's Revenge" (which is an abandoned, unfinished project, so not really fun to play) and "Abuse" (which is a mature, finished and playable game). Yes, I can see the small comment that they are both inactive, but there's nothing to hint me that Abuse is not discontinued, rather it is only inactive because it's mature and already bug-free. You know what I mean? Maybe I should have asked different visual for mature games, I guess? ...
Maybe making those indicators visible on the overview/index pages would be a good thing.Trilarion {l Wrote}:The visual indicators (moon and sun) are unfortunately only visible on the entries pages themselves. On the overview/index pages they translate to inactive (moon) or active (sun) but active itself is not written. Everything not marked inactive is assumed to be active. Additionally there is mature (round nice experience) and beta (not very nice experience if any at all).
Nope, I think that's a good idea, bold meaning playable games. I just think the critera for bold should be a little bit different, to include games like Abuse too.Trilarion {l Wrote}:The philosophy behind that is: go for the bold entries first, every non-bold entry comes with some sort of caveat (in beta, not actively developed anymore). Maybe that's not the optimal way to do that.
Yes, I think so. If the indicators were added too, then making mature but inactive games bold too is not going to be a problem imho.Trilarion {l Wrote}:Because it's so subjective and because it's not the main focus, I try to map activity to only a few variables (beta<->mature, active<->inactive) with (mature, active) the default value if nothing is printed. Maybe games that are mature, but inactive like Abuse could be printed in bold too (after all maybe there simply may not be anything to improve anymore on them).
Note, 7kaa was just a random example. I know it's hard to get a screenshot, that's why I've said it would increase the value of your site by a lot.Trilarion {l Wrote}:Regarding what kind of game is "Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries". Yes, screenshots would help but even the website there doesn't feature any screenshots
Yes, but you're not alone :-) That's the beauty of Open Source. You can make it a goal to have at least one screenshot per game, and let contributors help you with that.Trilarion {l Wrote}:For me to produce only one screenshot of it would take at least 10 minutes. With hundreds of games still to go, you can figure out how long that would take.
Maybe, but I still think a screenshot would be much better. An image often tells more than thousand words.Trilarion {l Wrote}:Maybe a "..is similar to.." field would actually make even more sense than the "inspiration" field.
bzt {l Wrote}:...
FYI, I think your list is really awesome, with a lot of well-though data collected. I'm just trying to help you increase its usability by suggesting a few changes in the design to represent those data better. Your approach to design is not what a new visitor typically looking for (they are asking questions like which games are playable? What kind of game is this? etc.) I believe with a minimal visual modifications your list could answer those questions better, meaning your list would stand out from other similar lists in usability by a lot (it is already the most comprehensive list I've seen so far, and already has all the necessary data). I mean, take a look at LibeGameWiki and focus on its design. There you can see at once what kind of game it is (category like in your list, but also thanks to the screenshot), whether it is active or not (just the date, your solution with icons is better). The only problem with LibreGameWiki is that it has far less entries than your list. ...
bzt {l Wrote}:Update: I've added screenshot URLs for games starting with letter C, D, E, F and G. Now nearly 300 URLs in list. ...
You're very welcome! And that's awesome!Trilarion {l Wrote}:Hi Bzt,
Thanks for the work. I finally came around incorporating the screenshots.
That shouldn't be an issue at all, because my scripts checks for the existing screenshots, and only downloads the missing ones.Trilarion {l Wrote}:The part that took most of the time was checking for duplicates because I had also added screenshots from other sources in the mean time.
Ah, ok, now I see.Trilarion {l Wrote}:However your work helped me a lot. I don't really need the imagemagick script part (using a Python script for that).
I've thought that you would want to use the list in another script, that's why I've written it in a way to have a tab separated "database". I'm glad it turned out to be useful to you! And yes, I'm willing to help you more if I have the time. Sadly right now I'm very busy with finishing TirNanoG, but I'll make time for this soon.Trilation {l Wrote}:There are now around 700 entries with at least one screenshot (~50%). If you want to further help and provide more screenshot urls, I promise I will include them. Just a list as the existing one you attached (entry name - some tabs - screenshot url) would be perfect.
That's exactly what I've done :-) However my biggest issue was figuring out the internal id of the games, the one that you're using for the filenames. Any suggestions on how to get those easily?Trilarion {l Wrote}:The best would be to concentrate on entries not having screenshots yet. For example simply go to https://trilarion.github.io/opensourceg ... mes/H.html and exchange letter H with whatever you desire and then look for entries without screenshots and then go their webpage and look for suitable screenshot URLs.
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