What are you playing?

deca12

I still consider myself as highly spoiled every time Kenta Cho releases something, I'm more happy with his games than play-station games. He made 50 browser games in 2014, and last year he just released something like a hundred one button games:
https://github.com/abagames/111-one-button-games-in-2021
I particularly like "sshake", when I see something funny on the internet, on tv or on the cinema, I usually smile more than really lough, but "sshake" really made me laugh out loud!

Technopeasant

deca12

Two Lanes reminds me of DONKEY.BAS

I quite like Froog too, but I am still sad there aren't many libre Frogger clones

https://libregamewiki.org/111_one-button_games_in_2021

Technopeasant

Currently playing Castle Totenkopf SDL, one of the heralds of the revolution in Wolfestein 3D modding that emerged with the Wolf4SDL engine continued by Team Raycast.

https://wl6.fandom.com/wiki/Castle_Totenkopf_SDL

Peter

Currently playing Neopets (yes, really!) and Illyriad. Both proprietary. Thinking about writing something similar to both of them but libre. But I should not get bogged down in too many projects...

Greetings
Peter

forty_sham

As of late I've been playing SuperTux (mainly experimenting with the level editor), and I've also been testing out Python games I'm creating on my Raspberry Pi (studying some Python stuff from Al Sweigart as a reference.) I've also played some TuxPuck, Hedgewars, and Minetest somewhat recently.

Technopeasant

Been playing games made using the Easy FPS Editor over on itch.io, which is a really nice successor to things such as the Pie 3D Game Creation System and more explicitly the Raycasting Game Maker.

A shame the creator is explicitly uninterested in releasing the source code. Raganar Random's games use libre graphics however.

https://itch.io/c/2835088/efpse

ffaf

Technopeasant do you Wine them?

Technopeasant

ffaf

Yes. It is based on the free software SFML library so it runs without issues.

ffaf

Not libre: Commander Keen Operation Ocflore.

a frigging amazing platformer which could run on your 486!

Technopeasant

Started playing Dusk. After hearing so many nice things about it I find it a little underwhelming. It has neither the streamlined gameplay of Quake nor the level design depth of Duke Nukem 3D or Blood. It homages its inspirations but does not transcend them.

Also got the co-operative mod for Slime Rancher to work to play with my partner.

Both are Unity so neither are FLOSS.

poVoq

Technopeasant Yeah, I was underwhelmed by Dusk as well. But Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is similar and quite nice. And it actually uses the Darkplaces open-source engine.

Technopeasant

poVoq

It is on the list but I am kinda waiting for the final version to come out.

Peter

I was blocked for nothing special on Neopets. I just mis-clicked. I could ask for reactivation but the game is not cool enough for me to justify that. So I stop playing Neopets.

I am now trying out several open source/libre games on GNU/Linux:

VDrift (Edit: Building failed)
Stunt Rally (Edit: Building failed)
Vega Strike
Unciv (Edit: Building failed)

ffaf

Peter All those “Build failed” don’t look good…

Peter

ffaf Yeah. Sometimes (but only sometimes) I envy Windows gamers. They have ONE binary for a game.

ffaf

Peter At risk of hijacking this thread, I had similar experiences with compiling lately. Usually I write a line or to two devs to gently point them at lacking doucmentation or extremely specific dependencies.

Sometimes, it works in getting more streamlined compiling process.

Technopeasant

Peter

This is where Flatpacks can help, though I understand their downsides. Or I just Wine the Windows version when I can't be bothered.

Peter

Good idea (if it is done politely and not demanding). I think I will do that, too, in the future.

Peter

Update again: Now I'm into point & click adventures (unfortunately most of them are unfree):

Some from the list of Sludge.
And I won in a sort of internet tombola "Edna and Harvey: Harvey's new eyes."
I also downloaded demos of "Majesty" and "Knights" (strategy games).

So did anyone of you get some game as a x-mas present?

Technopeasant

Peter

That isn't the Majesty that LGP ported back in the day was it?

Technopeasant

I spent about $100 on the GOG Winter Sale and bought a game on itch.io.

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