What are you playing?

Technopeasant

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

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.

Technopeasant

Was pleasantly surprised by this forgotten Pygame gem.

https://libregamewiki.org/Adventures_on_Planet_Zephulor

ffaf

Tried to play that, but it is python2, right? Debian axed python2 on stable!

edit: used wine to play a bit, comfy platformer, good for kids!

Technopeasant

Yeah, I also used Wine as Fedora got rid of pygame for Python 2. It worked fine aside from a few crashes, which was mitigated by the quicksave function.

It reminds me a lot of the sort of platform games I played using Micromedia Shockwave as a kid.

Technopeasant

Finally got around to finishing off the Quake II mission packs.

Now I am going to re-play Shogo using dgvoodoo2.

Technopeasant

Finished Shogo. I was planning to round out the single player Quake games with IV, but there seems to be some interesting movements in the creation of a source port so I am waiting to see how that lands rather than just getting the old binary running.

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Source_port#Quake_4

Might round off the original Doom games by playing Doom 64 with Doom64Ex+.

Technopeasant

Currently playing John Romero's SIGIL 2, which for some bizarre reason did not work for me via Crispy Doom despite it being tested with it being mentioned in the readme file (no episode select for it appears), so I am stuck with GZDoom which I then had to make as retro as possible. Ick.

I also played through Base Ganymede earlier in the year for Ultimate DOOM, as well as two Wolfenstein 3D mods (TFS 4.0 and Oldfartenstein, the latter actually getting a Linux native build), and just wrapped up two new Blood campaigns via NBlood (Fate of the Damned: The Shadow Out of Time, and MARROW). Still planning to get to Doom 64.

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