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The Open Source Game Corner Part 3

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UFO 2000
UFO2000 is free and opensource turn based tactical squad simulation multiplayer game, heavily inspired by the famous UFO: Enemy Unknown and providing a very similar reimplementation of its turn based battles. It's sad that this project never really went far. I played a match or two online years ago and it was great fun. Can someone pick this back up again please?

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UFO AI
A strategy game built to resemble the original X-COM games. It uses a heavily modified version of the Quake 2 engine with impressive results.

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Caesaria
CaesarIA is remake of Caesar III in the big world of Ancient Rome. You can build the small village with some of gardens and a workshop where you want. You also can perform tasks from emperor or build the large city and broke attacks of barbarians, Egyptians or carfagens which want to steal your goods and kill your citizens! You also can pass the company from original game. The good lock with high walls will help to cope with any invasions.

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Blobwars: Metal Blob Solid
Metal Blob Solid is a 2D platform game, the first in the Blobwars series. You take on the role of a fearless Blob agent, Bob, who's mission is to infiltrate various enemy bases and rescue as many MIAs as possible, while battling many vicious aliens. This is a bit of a "golden oldie" and it's showing its age now.

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Flightgear Flight Simulator
FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. It supports a variety of popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

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KeeperRL
KeeperRL is an ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil wizard and seek the ultimate knowledge of destruction. Explore the world, murder innocent villagers and burn their homes. Build your dungeon, lay traps and prepare for an assault of angry heroes.

It's actively developed and has even been updated this month, so that's good news. The ASCII version is free, but if you want sounds and graphics you need to fork out a few pennies, but the engine is open source as well.

Some thoughts
After doing three articles on open source game highlights now one thing has occurred to me, and it's that there aren't actually that many finished and polished open source games.

A lot of them are half-finished (some dead, and some still going) game engine's for commercial games.

If you can prove me wrong in the comments by showing me lots of fantastic open source finished games I would love to highlight them in part 4. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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oldrocker99 Aug 27, 2014
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Wow. After six+ years of using the perfect OS, there are some here I know very well, and some I'd not yet heard of. A valuable public service!
sev Aug 27, 2014
Great lists, thanks (article and commenter)
pb Aug 27, 2014
Blobwars: Metal Blob Solid is great, be sure to play it if you haven't already. The 3D sequel didn't appeal to me, though.
Mnoleg Aug 27, 2014
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup! And a new version is very very next to be released according to the wiki:
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/0.15

Let the forces of nature tear it all down!
Speedster Aug 28, 2014
Liam, don't forget Sunrider... you were the one who talked me into trying it by pointing out it was more than just a visual novel in an earlier article (features fun turn-based space combat). They managed to get the graphics and audio nicely polished thanks to a kickstarter.
pd12 Aug 28, 2014
Diaspora: Shattered Armistice is so fun! I love how you can hard-land on the Battlestar and "feel" the shock with the camera shake and you feel like you're in BSG! hahaha
Too bad I'm stuck in this epic mission with multiple Basestars (I *think I'm near the end of the campaign) but I usually crash during this mission. =( I'm also playing frantically since this is the hardest mission yet, so input spam might have something to do with it, although I suspect mission programming is more likely.
IAmLegend Oct 2, 2014
Thanks for sharing cool open source projects.
For Texas Hold'em, you also have a new kid in town : http://boardservice.org/community
It does not have restrictions like pokerth since it does not have closed database source unless it has changed recently and this one uses powerful authentication from forum software. You may want to take a look and build a community out of it. Plus, the poker game is from Cubeia which is well known in gaming industry.
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