FreeGameDev

Hi.

I have seen in my life a lot of FLOSS games born...and died.

And I remember with darling some titles as Galaxy Mage, Warmux, Fofix...

Sometimes I think in this.

Do you think about this?

What dead games do you remember with darling?

Regards.

Reviving dead OSS games is like my hobby. Apart from C-Dogs SDL, I've been working on FreeBlocks recently, which I should post in the showcase section soon.

Naturally I keep a list of dead OSS games to possibly revive. Most aren't too interesting because projects usually die for good reasons - lack of interest, ancient or unwieldy architecture - but one that I really like is Jump 'n Bump. Although there's not much more you can do with the game, I think it will be fantastic to port to handhelds and phones, and it could be hilarious on a console or online multiplayer.

I would love to see Jump'n'Bump revived, maybe even just removing the dust and making sure the buildsystem is fine on all targeted platforms.

There's also Egoboo that I loved as a teenager and that was recently forked to update it.
I'd also like to see something similar for its little brother SoulFu. It's a really fun game but somehow its community development never really took off. The custom license seems to restrict commercial distribution and some other stuff, so that doesn't help. Hopefully the author would accept to relicense under an established license if somehow wanted to do some real development.

Not 100% FOSS, but with an interesting usage license for professional assets: Darkplaces based Tansfusion (Blood).
Could be updated to work with the latest Xonotic release for synergy reasons. http://transfusion-game.com/

Not fully dead, but not very active: http://sumwars.org/wiki/Main_Page

DNT. Tried to do it myself, but then I restarted work on my own dead project.

c_xong {l Wrote}:but one that I really like is Jump 'n Bump. Although there's not much more you can do with the game, I think it will be fantastic to port to handhelds and phones, and it could be hilarious on a console or online multiplayer.

The version of Jump'n'Bump in Debian's repository supports online multiplayer:

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/jumpnbump

(I point to the version in Sid because a bug in that on 64-bit systems was recently fixed.)

The Combat Simulator Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/csp/

Danger from the deep: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dangerdeep/ http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/

Search and Rescue II: http://hsanjuan.github.io/sar2/ https://github.com/hsanjuan/sar2

ad-infinitum: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ad-infinitum/

Played these last three

I'd really like to see Hopy-One revived, the demo I had a decade ago looked like a fun platformer.

See viewtopic.php?f=20&p=63045#p63045 .

But it's rather one of those near-hopeless DOS ports with shitty code conventions, speed hacks of all kinds and custom asset formats.

Respect for getting it done for C-Dogs @ c_xong!

But opposed to C-Dogs I don't think there is someone who does remember it and can reverse engineer features lost due to the code breakage.

XEvil is a game I've always wanted to see being developed again. It's a 2D platformer/fighting game where you play as different characters stuck in hell and forced to fight each other in arena battles. It was one of the few fun single player games out there when I first tried Linux. The humor was also really juvenile which was great way back when.
The biggest problem with it was the control scheme being too convoluted. As I remember you basically controlled the character using all of the numpad keys which was kind of finger breaking and made it hard to just pick up and play.
I've thought about trying to fix the controls myself but have never gotten around to it. It probably needs more work too since the code base is positively ancient, I think it first came out in 93 and it was the guys first attempt at programming.

Globulation 2 - http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
DNT - http://dnt.dnteam.org/cgi-bin/about.py
lincity NG

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:I'd really like to see Hopy-One revived, the demo I had a decade ago looked like a fun platformer.

Not reviving it, but I just exported it on my GitHub space to prevent losing the code when Google Code closes definitively next year.
https://github.com/akien-mga/hopyone

FreeTrain. Still want to have a Linux port.

http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/

Not off topic at all

Oh and a new release and some more (visible) development of http://tesseract.gg/ would be nice.

I always thought Battle for Antargis could go on to be very good.

I would love to see some open source Master of Magic/Age of Wonders clone, using freeciv code.

Original games are plagued with various problems, like no endgame, no multiplayer, no diplomacy and useless AI.

Since 2000 various people attempt developing such game, yet dropped it sooner afterwards

A good starting point would be cloning the Age of Wonders 3 engine, then adding CC graphics.

Maybe this is a good place to mention that I ported Jump’n’Bump to SDL2: https://github.com/MCMic/jumpnbump

MCMic {l Wrote}:Maybe this is a good place to mention that I ported Jump’n’Bump to SDL2: https://github.com/MCMic/jumpnbump

That is _awesome_ news! I've been looking forward to seeing Jump'n'Bump get some love for many years now. I'll package it for Mageia asap

BTW it looks like you made your git commits with an email that is not attached to your GH account, so as the author you're not recognized as @MCMic, but that could very well be intended. If not, you can likely add this email as a secondary email in your GH account.

http://csp.sourceforge.net
http://dungeonhack.sourceforge.net
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net
http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net
+ loads more I forget right now.

I like to see a return of Wormux (later renamed WarMUX). I used to play it a lot with people on the Internet. I don't remember exactly why but I liked the somewhat older versions better, before they adapted it to hand held devices and changed the mascots to be small and cute.

Galaxy Mage and Lips of Suna.

farcodev {l Wrote}:Danger from the deep: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dangerdeep/ http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/

Good news(ish) in that development has restarted:

https://sourceforge.net/p/dangerdeep/git/commit_browser

asdv {l Wrote}:XEvil is a game I've always wanted to see being developed again. It's a 2D platformer/fighting game where you play as different characters stuck in hell and forced to fight each other in arena battles. It was one of the few fun single player games out there when I first tried Linux. The humor was also really juvenile which was great way back when.
The biggest problem with it was the control scheme being too convoluted. As I remember you basically controlled the character using all of the numpad keys which was kind of finger breaking and made it hard to just pick up and play.
I've thought about trying to fix the controls myself but have never gotten around to it. It probably needs more work too since the code base is positively ancient, I think it first came out in 93 and it was the guys first attempt at programming.

The other issue is that there is a great disparity between the X11 Unix version and the DirectX Windows version. The latter has smooth scrolling, sounds, music, etc, and the other lacks it. What it would really need is a unified codebase with the DirectX bindings replaced with SDL 2.

im more into resurrecting game concepts or projects that never really saw light

4instance such awesome games as Forlorn world et cetera
some even try to resurrect projects like that (even some polish company tried to rebuild FW tho nobody saw even a single screenshot of the game (but its known that tech demo existed))

some FW concepts:
https://www.nma-fallout.com/gallery/pho ... nery.1243/