What are you playing?

O01eg

Currently I'm playing FreeOrion.

Peter

mdtrooper Bitburner in Steam...but I don't understand the license...I think that it is only opensource.

It's Apache License 2.0. That's considered free software, in a permissive way.

mdtrooper

Peter But it is combined or mixed with “Commons Clause” License Condition v1.0. And I few understand is a non comercial license.

Peter

mdtrooper Oh sorry I didn't see that. What a pity it's nonfree then :(

Del

(This is a time as good as any to stop lurking. Hi, everyone!)

Mostly I've been playing Space Station 14, a reimplementation of Space Station 13. It's a computer RPG that feels a lot like a tabletop RPG played by dozens of people at the same time. It's full of potential for dramatic fun, but it can also be a sour experience sometimes. It's mostly good, though.

It's mostly libre (MIT + CC BY-SA), but they throw in some non-libre stuff (CC BY-NC-SA and proprietary)... can they even do that?

https://spacestation14.io/

I also did try this 7DRL game, Mosaic. It's a mashup of broughlike and 3-in-a-row that works, but... meh. Non-libre.

https://zunil.itch.io/mosaic

@Peter DreamWeb looks great! I keep telling myself I need to try Battle for Wesnoth... it looks like a masterpiece, but maybe not my jam...

@ffaf I got good memories from playing Within a Deep Forest and Knytt.

@mdtrooper Gosh, I spent a lot of time on that puzzle collection! The Android implementation is great. My favorite is Loopy, though recently I discovered that handcrafted Slitherlink tends to be a lot more fun...

@Technopeasant I REALLY WANNA PLAY QUAKE RRRRAAAAA!! I know the levels themselves are libre, but I really wanted the original graphics and sounds. Bought it on a discount recently, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Peter

Del It's mostly libre (MIT + CC BY-SA), but they throw in some non-libre stuff (CC BY-NC-SA and proprietary)... can they even do that?

I'm not an expert of CC licenses, but I think they can do that. Unlike code (GPL) where linking of libre and proprietary is forbidden, CC art can be mixed. (Anyone who's more an expert can please correct me, if I got this wrong.) I mean mixing in the same art file would be forbidden, but combining different art files in a program/project is allowed I think.

And mixing libre code with proprietary art is allowed, too. There's even a comment by Richard Stallman saying so.

Peter

Del Space Station 14, a reimplementation of Space Station 13. It's a computer RPG that feels a lot like a tabletop RPG played by dozens of people at the same time.

I would love to play a game which is similar to the good old days of pen and paper RPG, played with a bunch of friends around a table. But science fiction isn't exactly my favored genre. I'm more into fantasy and cyberpunk and steampunk.

Technopeasant

Del

I had forgotten Romero released the map files. Makes it even weirder that there is no equivalent to Freedoom for Quake to replace the multimedia.

Well, apart from this...

http://openquartz.sourceforge.net/index.html

dulsi

Lots of roguelikes. I wrote an article on some of the ones I've liked. Most are closed source. One of the ones I haven't tried yet was open source but the repo was removed.

poVoq

dulsi Did you try the new Desktop version of Shattered Pixel Dungeon?

dulsi

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is one of the games I converted to Gamerzilla. I haven't checked it recently. I saw the gamingonlinux article but haven't looked at it yet.

poVoq

Technopeasant There is an actively ongoing project: https://github.com/MissLav/LibreQuake

Del

Technopeasant

I had forgotten Romero released the map files. Makes it even weirder that there is no equivalent to Freedoom for Quake to replace the multimedia.

It seems Rexuiz does it (though I never tried it).
https://youtu.be/3WzDrLIAIug?t=63

And correct me if I'm wrong, but the original Doom levels aren't libre, are they? From what I understand, Freedoom has not only new graphics, but new levels too.

Technopeasant

poVoq That's interesting to know. I would pick a new title though, since Zenimax can be a bit litigative.

To get back on topic, coming across Quetoo inspired me to play a little Xonotic and Red Eclipse, since they actually have bots to play against in single player. I find the combat in Eclipse at bit too airy, but Xonotic has a decent UT04 vibe. Had not really tried it since the old Nexuiz days.

mdtrooper

poVoq I don't know this project....it is awesome. I love this kind of project because a floss game engines without free data/assets is a lame horse (it is a spanish expression).

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Technopeasant I find the combat in Eclipse at bit too airy, but Xonotic has a decent UT04 vibe.

I think Red-Eclipse-1 is the closer to UT actually, but it have it's own feeling, because of their very special movement mechanics (which is pretty good I have to say!)

Nexuiz just feels like a mess to me.

As for what I'm playing... depends. Unvanquished, wesnoth, morrowind, tales of maj eyal, RE1 (long time since last game, but I work in cycles)... mindustry could be nice, if not about the system freezes and many dumb choices (petrol almost useless except for plastanium, low level prog lang which is worst than all asms I can remember, etc) when digging in the game, but i still intend to finish the solo thing.
One game I have serious hopes for, is Thrive.

Technopeasant

OpenQuartz also has FrikBots. They seem a bit tougher than when I faced them in Transfusion.

Peter

mdtrooper because a floss game engines without free data/assets is a lame horse (it is a spanish expression).

Yeah, that's true. There are many open source/libre games which I find interesting, and on closer look I see that the assets from the proprietary original are needed to play it. For example FreeSims. That's indeed a lame horse.

Greetings
Peters

Technopeasant

Yes, entirely new levels in Freedoom, aside from the Double Impact PWAD that was donated to them by its creator.

And yeah, Rexuiz features the GPL'd Quake levels, though I understand there is some debate about whether Romero had the right to releae them as such.

poVoq

I started playing the new 4.x release of Unciv. I really is a very good modern Civ game now. If you ever played the commercial Civ5 you will get into it easily.

Del

poVoq

I started playing the new 4.x release of Unciv. I really is a very good modern Civ game now. If you ever played the commercial Civ5 you will get into it easily.

How's it compare to FreeCiv?

poVoq

Del I find it much better, but I guess it is a matter of taste.