Catalog (/lv/)

Welcome to Libre Vidya, Video Games in Freedom.

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ChaosEsqueAnthology

>tfw your favorite game was developed and published closed source and costs money so you can never play it again to uphold your libre vidya beliefs

Being an /lv/ fag is suffering, I wish I could play video games again.

Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up their source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.

https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

Coop FPS game

Is there a libre 3D FPS game similar to Unreal 1?

Battle for Wesnoth

What does /lv/ think of Battle for Wesnoth?

I'm actually astounded that I have never heard of this game until now. This is easily going to the top of my libre vidya recommendation list now.

It reminds me of Fire Emblem with a hex grid but it actually addresses a lot of the things I've never liked about that series.

Libre doom

FLOSS STALKER Clone?

Does anything similar to STALKER, at least in spirit or theme exist as a libre vidya? It's just about the only game that doesn't have a libre clone outside from DOTA that I like.

I actually don't expect an answer, sort of just shitposting to keep the board alive.

Calling all pilots: we've a space thread, so why not a flight sim thread? That's right, it's Flightgear time. What do you fly? Where do you fly?

minetest

Anyone here play freeciv? The game claims that I can edit the files, but I don't know how. I open a flag up on GIMP and edit it to test it out and it won't let me overwrite the file. I open up the settings of a nation and it says that I do not have permission to edit it.

Anyone know how this is supposed to work?

Server

OK guys, I recently got some money and bought a server.

I am working on the minetest server now.

Any other games I should host for us? Remember the servers need to be headless.

I don't why I've been hooking on this game lately. Maybe because of all the happening hype lately on /pol/, I'm into some rts mood in all of the sudden.

Feel free to invite /pol/lacks in this game. I'm just gonna leave the links here http://www.openra.net/

Have you guys heard of Wyrmsun? I haven't tried it yet but it looks really cool.

http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/09/wyrmsun-free-open-sourced-rts-thats.html

Distro

Which distro would you recommend for libre gaming?

OpenClonk 7 is out!

http://blog.openclonk.org/2016/01/openclonk-7-released/

Some highlights of the changelog are:

>New Controls and GUI

>New soundtrack

>Almost all material textures were recreated

>Enhanced dynamic lighting system

>Plant and animal life!

>New objects

>New scenarios

>tfw you play a lot of story-driven and Japanese games. There are hardly any libre games like that.

Glest

Anyone played this game? It looks pretty based for a RTS game. What do you think?

http://glest.org

https://megaglest.org/ (forked version, I only found this version in my repo)

Suggestion

Hey BO, it would be cool if you have another page with a list of libre games and/or websites which lets the user to download games or mods.

Annex

FreedroidRPG 0.16 Released

>The FreedroidRPG team is proud to announce the release of the 0.16 version of this famous libre RPG game !

>This version has been in the making for 4 years and contains many changes and improvements, representing the work of many contributors.

http://www.freedroid.org/news/news-detail/article/merry-christmas-2015-freedroidrpg-016-released/

Hey /lv/, I've just made the jump to fully free software. Thing is, I've got quite the extensive Steam library.

Now, I am part of the libre movement for the ethics, so I want to know:

Is the most Stallman-y thing to do to crack the DRM off the Steam games? Is that even feasible?

I suppose I could pirate the games, but I'd feel more comfortable cracking them, you know? I feel like having a libre system shouldn't necessitate breaking the law, there are other ways to get around what big coporations want you to do without making yourself succeptable to incrimination.

Thanks, guys.

GNU GPL powder toy game

http://powdertoy.co.uk/

/lag/ - Libre Android Games

There's many crappy ones but there are some like (Shattered) Pixel Dungeon.

Is Pixel Dungeon the only good libre Android game?

Desura

Red Eclipse

is there any libre motorcycle game?

After more than 10 years, a new version of SuperTux is out!

https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/releases/tag/v0.4.0

>a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, …

>support for translations

>in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations

>Bonus Island III, a for now unfinished Forest Island and the development levels in Incubator Island

>a final boss in Icy Island

>new and improved soundtracks and sound effects

>new badguys, bonuses and power-ups (air-, earth- and ice-flower)

>a halloween tilemap

>new graphic effects (glowing objects, particles, …)

>levels and worldmaps are scriptable using squirrel

>much more game objects: trampolines, switches, portable stones, wind, moving platforms, … - most of them have scripting APIs

>improved statistics

>many invisible changes, like unit tests, efficiency improvements and more bugfixes

>much more…

The Dark Mod

0 A.D. Alpha 19 is out

>This alpha features building and siege engine capture, a new pathfinder, visual replay and more!

http://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-19-syllepsis/

A simple perl game:

A simple perl game:

http://www.lgdb.org/game/gpcslots2

(Casino)

>Pikka - one of the long-standing artists around OpenTTD, who has released nummerous NewGRF - considers working full-time for 9 months on a graphics project for OpenTTD. To make this possible he has started a kick starter to raise funds for his life expenses.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1512547915/pineapple-graphics-for-openttd

Screenshot thread

Take a screenshot of a game and others have to guess which game it's from!

Tanks of Freedom

http://w84death.itch.io/tanks-of-freedom

>Classic turn-based strategy game with two armies fighting against each other. Challenge yourself in campaign against AI or hot-seat battle with a friend.

Anyone else getting into this?

Whoa niggas, no OpenTTD thread?

Let's rectify that.

Naev 0.6.1 is out!

Changes since 0.6.0:

>Improved AI (nenau)

>New Misisons (onpon4, nenau)

>Changed how action loss is handled (onpon4)

>Lua AI rewrite (Ian D. Scott)

>Misc fixes and improvements.

If you like space trading and shooting games, give it a try: http://blog.naev.org/downloads/

Game How - new board page

First, sorry about the spam before. I was in the mountains for a few days and the internet wasn't working.

So I had an idea for a new page with detailed game specific help and information on it.

Thoughts? I consider the newbie page finished, so similar to that.

this game is the shit!

I've already completed the whole thing, but I think there's user made levels too.

https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal

libre mmo

About to switch over to linux, what is a good libre mmorpg to play? Something with more than 5 people online would be a bonus.

Libre alternative to Worms

Are there any libre Worms clones? The youtube video embedded in this post is a clone called "Wormux" (Later renamed to Warmux), but the project site doesn't seem to still exist anymore, so I have to assume it's dead.

Anyone know of anything else?

Corebreach

Tox

So the IRC is pretty dead but that's no great surprise. I thought it might be nice to be able to contact your libre friends when you want some multiplayer. So this will either fly or fail.

Add me:

3A64BF7B69DD50835522639E18A1A9EF9F6DC74863E656038D465BDF81EA82103655607FD53A

GLtron

http://www.gltron.org/

Basically the snake game with really fancied up with Tron graphics. Completely libre, runs on Linux, and has decent graphics on even an old computer.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Now-OpenGL-4.0

So Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.0. This is awesome news for us, because those of use that refuse to use binary only drivers will now have access to modern graphics (or will soon for some). It's really amazing to see how far Mesa has come in the last few years, considering not too long ago it didn't even have OpenGL 3.x support.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean a bunch of libre games will actually use OGL 4.0 (if they even needed it in the first place). At least the option is there, however.

C-evo

So I thought this deserved a little more attention.

It's not GPL as was stated. I don't know where that idea came from.

https://gitlab.com/vn971/cevo/blob/experimental/LICENSE.txt

This is the first game posted here (I think) under "public domain" which isn't technically libre but does lie on our side of the fence. I honestly don't know enough about public domain law so if anyone wants to chime in, please do.

It's also the first compliant? game which is windows only, which sucks. I don't see any mention of porting efforts but there are efforts made for wine compatibility.

http://www.c-evo.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=119

Also, what language is this written in? I have seen mentions of C#, in which case couldn't we get it running under mono fairly easily? Flights of fancy perhaps.

What do you think?

Unknown Horizons

SuperTuxKart 0.9 is out!

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

Shadowgrounds

Anyone here played Shadowgrounds?

I am having a bugger of a time trying to get this shit working. Anyone got it working before?

https://github.com/vayerx/shadowgrounds

Assault Cube

Anyone plays this here? Is there a non-official 8chan server?

NOWHERE

SS13 Standalone

Are there any idle games that run in terminal?

tactical squad games

Is there any freeware/libre tactical squad game somewhat similiar to UFO:Aftermath?

The only one that I know right now is Open-Xcom but it is not fully libre as well OpenApoc which is not even playable.

Newfag

Hi, newfag here, I don't get it, the majority of games I checked ITT (sticky) are neither free as in freedom nor free as in free beer, this thread just become advertising place for indie devs?

come to /vvv/!

hey shameless shill here!

hey, do you wanna talk about video games without any rulecuck mods and the fear of getting banned?

why not come to /vvv/ where everyone can post what they want and when they want. it doesn't even have to be videogame related!(we'd prefer you stay on topic)

and the best part is, no mark, no shitty circlejerkor community and no totalitarianism.

come too >>>/vvv/ today!

Nikki and the robots

Anyone played? Can't find the source and the site is down.

Need QuakeC help: can't get decals/bulletholes to work with spawned in BSP entities.

Need QuakeC help: can't get decals/bulletholes to work with spawned in BSP entities.

I spawn a bsp model in game. Though when you shoot it there are particle effects, there are no bullet holes/decals.

I can't figure out how to make them stick to it. I look in the darkplaces source to no avail, the quakec source, and google.

No mention of this.

spawnfunc_misc_clientmodel();

self.solid = SOLID_BSP;

self.movetype = MOVETYPE_PUSH;

how do I get decals/bulletholes to go on it, if possible? Is there a flag? The non-entity 0 movers in the map get bullet holes…

I notice entity 0 gets bullet holes, and other entities (movers, doors in the map) also get bullet

holes and decals. They aren't entity 0 but are part of the map.

Engine: darkplaces.

I asked on IRC but was told to fuck off they won't help me.

Iceball Project

>what the fuck is this

Iceball is a F/OSS clone of the Ace of Spades beta tests and pre-Steam release

>where the fuck do i get it

https://github.com/iamgreaser/iceball and

iceball.sexy

The folder 'clsave' has the "settings" that you can change aswell

>how the fuck do i play it

if you're on Windows, just iceball.exe to run the game

but if you're using OSX or a Linux variant, you'll have to either use Wine (for now) or you'll have to compile from source

Games like Unreal

OpenHexagon

Anyone play Open Hexagon?

The license looks odd, not seen it before. Appears to be libre.

http://vittorioromeo.info/projects.html

Best multiplayer libre game?

Is there any multiplayer libre vidya that isn't dead? I've gone full freetard and only run non proprietary software, but there seems to be no multiplayer games.

What would the world of vidya mods be like if all video games were free software?

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory | wolfet etlegacy

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

I finally installed ET:Legacy and had a sudden craving to play single player.

They have separated single and multi-player for obvious reasons.

https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-SP

https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-MP

What I really want to know is if there is an libre project for this? The last update was Jan 2012.

NOT LIBRE

Go to http://www.myabandonware.com/ and play any game on there and report your experience.

also

>mfw Baldur's Gate 2 listed as abandonware but it's still licenced and on GoG.com

Tempest clone

Are there any libre tempest clones? I really fell in love with torus trooper but I can't seem to find a source and don't have a binary package for my distro (although Wikipedia claims that all ABA games are libre). Torus trooper is a tempest clone, basically you can move your spaceship between multiple lanes and shoot at enemies moving towards you (see video). Other tempest clones are typhoon 2001 and Arashi for Mac OS.

The faster the better. Preferably in 3D and minimalist graphics.

corewars / pmars

I made a thread about it on /tech/ but it seems it's too techy to compete with browser wars and NSA.

>What is corewars?

Basically you write programs in Redcode, which is RISC assembly with stuff like

multithreading and relative addressing. Your warrior (code) is then loaded into

the core (VM, e.g. pmars) and has to compete with another warrior to make it

terminate itself (you usually do this by modifying their code, jump addresses

etc). You warrior fights against multiple other warriors to eventually be rated

and get a rank on the hill (if it's good enough) to push another off. Get the

first rank to become king of the hill until you're pushed off.

>Nice, how can I get started?

Learn redcode, there's the '88 standard and the '94 draft with some cool

features which is the de-facto standard. It's reference implementation is

pmars. Here's a beginners guide to '94: http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html

Here's a reference: http://www.koth.org/info/pmars-redcode-94.txt For some

advanced reading try http://www.infionline.net/~wtnewton/corewar/chapter1.html

and http://www.infionline.net/~wtnewton/corewar/chapter2.html or

http://www.corewars.org/docs/tips.html You can test your warriors in pmars

>pMARS

pMARS is the reference implementation of the '94 draft, you can get it on http://www.koth.org/pmars/ It's libre and comes for all major operating systems, most have it in their package manager, or you can compile the source yourself. You can use it to have warriors fight each other (usually you do multiple battles with randomized starting positions in the core). If you call it with the -k option it compiles your warriors into koth format (which you need to send a warrior to a hill). It also features the cbd debugger, you can either enter it during a battle or by supplying the -e option.

>cbd

use "help" to get a list of commands. "step" executes a single command and outputs the next command. Supply it with an integer to execute more than one command (e.g. "step 3" does three commands). "list" allows you to look at core addresses, "list 5" looks at the 5th command. You can also supply ranges like "list 0,100" to list a range of addresses. It also supports relative addressing (remember, all addresses are relative). Say you want to check what's at address two:

(cdb) list 2
00002   SNE.X  $  -102, $  -102
(cdb)

Now where does -102 point to? Check it like this:

(cdb) list 2-102
07900
(cdb)

(i.e. we subtract 102 from 2 and end up in 8000+2-102=7900, which is empty)

You can also set traces with "trace". Use something like "trace 5" to put a trace on 5, then issue "go" to have pMARS run until just before the next execution of the command at address 5.

Gish

AGDG

Aquaria

Is there a good libre version of riichi mahjong? Playable with other people or AI, preferably both.

Space Simulators

Syobon Action

Lets play WDELAAAAAAAAAAANDS

Lets play WDELAAAAAAAAAAANDS

https://wl.widelands.org

if you played settler 1 and 2 back in the 90's, you should try playing this game too. Basically it's a Libre version of settler the game. Btw, I'm downloading this for a first time myself on my gnu linux pc, so Check it out!

What does /lv/ think of FreeOrion?

Linux Tycoon

> One of the new track being showcased takes place in a "aztec like" fictionnal environment and has several instance of Native American cultural appropriation ; the poster associated for the release speaks for itself : a white woman is wearing an outfit that can be depicted as a mix of Native american clothes from different nation and a halo of feathers.

>On the other hand the new track which takes place in an island with a big airport has 8 models of Sara (the white woman in the poster) in a bikini swim suit, even in the hall of the airport. There are something like 2 Suzanne, 4 GNU (who is still wearing is T shirt) and 4 "aztec" women also featured from the other new track. In my opinion it's privileging a male gaze position.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2015/04/msg00008.html

OpenJK

Emulators

Can we have an emulator thread?

I was wondering which libre emulators any of you use/would recommend.

Also where is the line drawn on emulators? Virtualbox is a GPL x86 emulator which can run windows games with a pass through. Is that too far? If people do use emulators, which emulators do you think are acceptable and why?

To play devils advocate you didn't need freedom on an arcade machine because it serves one function, it was built to play a game and that's it. Essentially making the software, soft circuitry, like in modern microwave ovens or coffee makers. This same logic can be applied to emulators of even modern console games such as Dolphin, as the games are essentially drop in soft circuitry for the emulator which serves one function, to play the games.

Now obviously the major flaw here is that we don't have access to the source code for these games. In an extreme but plausible situation a proprietary console game released today could even escape its' emulated environment. This has been observed with windows malware which can recognise a virtual environment and infect the host cross platform.

Hey, I am looking for a 2d engine, made with C++, that allows scripting, libre and that includes a level editor. Do you know or recommend anything?

Hey guys, ive recently tried to switch to linux full time because windows is shit.

I work in IT and im very computer literate, but ive never used linux my entire life, so its quite different and a learning experience for sure.

That being said, ive got linux mint installed and configured properly (I think), and WINE working relatively well.

Im having a really weird issue that I cant find SHIT for on google (been looking for days)..

Whenever I play a game, ANY game, whether its a native linux game (like witcher 2) or something via WINE, im getting weird inconsistant frame rates. It only happens with 3D games, 2d games like shadowrun dragonfall work perfectly fine.

My specs:

AMD FX-8350 CPU

Nvidia 770 gtx GPU

8gb DDR3 RAM

SSD for OS, regular HDD for data/wine

Using the proprietary nvidia drivers that came with/loaded automatically in Linux Mint.

Whenever I play a game, the FPS is pretty stable, but about every 10 seconds or so, it freezes, for a good 2-3 seconds. I can still hear the game running in the background, and I can still control the game, but the graphics completely freeze for several seconds. In the witcher 2, I can hear stuff hitting me, or hear myself rolling when it freezes, but then suddenly it starts working normally again for another 10-15 seconds.

I cant figjure out how to fix this shit to save my life, and its driving me insane. Its really the only thing stopping me from running linux full time.

Does this seem like an issue with graphics drivers or something else? Some kind of prereq issue or something? Again, im SUPER new to linux and I literally dont know shit so try to spoonfeed/babyfy your answers as much as possible.

Thanks a ton guys, I love you all.

Games that need porting

Can anyone think of any decent libre games that haven't been ported to one or more of the major PC platforms (Windows, OSX, or Linux)? Anything you're itching to play?

I was thinking that doing Mac and Linux ports for niche/"indie" games could be a nice freelance job, so I'd like to port some libre games to fill up my portfolio, but nothing is coming to mind.

Sorry to shit up the place, but the video in the header is gone. What was it?

Cyber games

Thought it might be cool to look at some games with cyber elements.

Syndicate:

http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

System shock 1&2:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opde/

(not sure this is working)

I have no mouth and I must scream:

http://scummvm.org/compatibility/DEV/ihnm/

Beneath a steel sky:

http://scummvm.org/compatibility/DEV/sky/

Dreamweb:

http://scummvm.org/compatibility/DEV/dreamweb/

Andys' Super Great Park

Steel storm 1 & 2

OpenDungeons

Extreme Tux Racer

Frogatto & Friends

Doukutsu Monogatari

Urban Terror

Tesseract

Libre but not Gratis

World of Padman

SnowballZ

The one and only update

Outlookindustries

Open Clonk

Copyleft Games Group

Quake2World

Rigs of Rods

Terminal Overload

Tales of Maj'Eyal

Spring RTS engine

Libregamewiki

shit meta thread

moved whole convo - further discussion

Lugaru

Astro Menace

Arx Liberatis

Mr. Rescue

Liquid War 6

Rhythm Games

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