What are you playing?

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.

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

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.

Peter

According to my favorite Linux game site Freeciv imitates Civ 2 and Unciv imitates Civ 5.

mdtrooper

Peter According to my favorite Linux game site Freeciv imitates Civ 2 and Unciv imitates Civ 5.

For several years ago, I want to learn to play to FreeCiv and now to Unciv. But in the past there were not youtube, peertube...

I have to look for video tutorials/gameplays (in spanish) about this games.

poVoq

There is an in-game tutorial, and basically you learn these games by trying and failing and then starting again 😅

Peter

Personal update: Now I play:

Gnome Sudoku (free)
Micropolis (but the graphics and GUI are much worse than the original SimCity. Free)
Europa Universalis IV (non-free)
And I'm checking if EVE Online is my kind of game (non-free, I can't run it on Linux :( ).
A bit (not much) of Aegis (worldofaegis.com, non-free)

Greetings
Peter

Elouin

@Peter personal update is a good idea. :)

Last week:

Crossfire(https://crossfire.real-time.com/ on crossfire.aethernaut.eu:2457 feel free to join.🙂)
MineClone5
Mindustry
StarRuler 2

All free as it seems. 😃

Peter

Elouin Yes, all games you listed are free! Nice!

I tried Crossfire. I couldn't build the Gtk client on Linux so I used the Windows-version (on Wine). It's difficult to control. It seems to have mininum 3 key input modes and no mouse support.

I will try Star Ruler 2. Seems worth a look.

Greetings
Peter

Elouin

Peter I tried Crossfire. I couldn't build the Gtk client on Linux so I used the Windows-version (on Wine). It's difficult to control. It seems to have mininum 3 key input modes and no mouse support.

The GTK client has mouse support. I use hjkl to move around, 'a' is apply and ',' is pick up. Thats almost everything you need if you play a fighter(Inventory management i do with the mouse).

Most linux distributions have the crossfire client in their repos actually.

Peter I will try Star Ruler 2. Seems worth a look.

Yeah, its pretty nice. A very unique take on the genre.

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