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Open source video games (also known as open source games or free games) are video games which are open-source software. Open source games, which are free software and contain exclusively free content are freely distributable, and often cross-platform compatible. Many are included in Linux distributions as a result.[1]
Some free games are open source software, but not all open source games are free software; some open source games contain proprietary non-free content.
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Background
Open source games are largely volunteer driven projects, principally the realm of hobbyists and enthusiasts. As such, open source games are often ports of older games to different operating systems or games much smaller in scope than current proprietary games, often having inferior graphics and audio. Many open source game projects are never completed. With proprietary games getting more advanced and expensive to produce, open source games rarely, though with notable exceptions, compete with their proprietary siblings.[2]
In general free games are developed by small groups of people in their free time, without aiming for profit. Some free games are based on formerly proprietary projects, whose source code was released as free and open source software and game data as free and open content.[3] An example is Warzone 2100.[4]
Almost all free games are volunteer run projects, and as such free game developers are principally hobbyists and enthusiasts. The consequence of this is that most games take many years to mature and that means there are only a few complete high quality free games[5].
Examples
A popular example for free games is Freeciv, a clone of the proprietary Civilization. Nexuiz, Tremulous, and Assaultcube are a few examples of free 3D first person shooters based on id Software's engines.
Arguably the most successful free game project is Battle for Wesnoth which has a large community contributing to the game.
One example of an open source game is War§ow, which is based on an open source engine (a derivate of the GPL-ed id Tech 2 but has non-free content).[6]
Some open source games strive to be free games but lack the manpower to replace media content that is not available under a Free Software license, such as Sauerbraten and Scourge.
Other games are simply reimplementations of an old commercial game and as such require the original commercial game media to play them, such as D2X-XL[7] and OpenTyrian[8].
Toolsets
One of the challenges to building high quality content for games is it often requires expensive tools like 3D-modeller or a toolset for level design. As open source applications like Blender mature and professional tools like GtkRadiant are published under open licenses, this is becoming less of an issue.
See also
References
- ^ Debian Package Games
- ^ Playing the Open Source Game by Shawn Hargreaves
- ^ Linux games from Freshmeat
- ^ Warzone 2100 Ressurection project about page
- ^ Complete non-casual open source games
- ^ Warsow FAQ
- ^ D2X-XL is a port of Descent II
- ^ Open Tyrian is a port of the classic DOS game Tyrian
External links
- Open Source Games for Windows
- Games for Linux (mostly open source)
- Open source game projects on SourceForge
- Libregamewiki, a wiki about free games and closely related topics
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