Open Source Games etc?

[ajbrun]

"Free" being my favourite word, I got thinking about open source programs.

Apart from operating systems, web browsers and word processors etc, what other open source programs can you get. Can you get games for example ?

[menthel]

You can get everything! Have a good old nose around source forge and you will see!

[ajbrun]

Is that www.sourceforge.com?

[menthel]

Sure is!

[yamangman]

are you sure you don't mean www.sourceforge.net

[menthel]

Probably! Soz.

[directhex]

there are a few full open-source games (Flightgear flight sim, Tux Racer, some racing game I forgot the name of), a whole stack of little ones (nothing really more complex than solitaire type games)

what's more common are open-source engines, for closed-source data files (art, sounds, maps, etc). for example, quake 1 & 2 are open source engines, but the levels etc aren't - so there are a number of replacement quake executables such as Tenebrae, which rely on data from retail Quake. all the lucasarts point & click games can be played using the open-source ScummVM engine, and the closed-souce games Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen have been released as freeware (not open-source) to play with ScummVM.