Beyond-All-Reason VS netpanzer

Just discovered this amazing work inspired by old classics such as Total Annihilation.

tl;dr: Open source modern 3D RTS. Source appears to be located at [1].

[1] - https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason

If you want to tinker with the core game itself, just follow the steps in the readme of https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason, it won't get more detailed then that.

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/blob/...

Another Total Anhilation clone is open source: ZeroK

If you're tech savy you could probably extend this lua script with a button to write the collected data into a file. It would be a neat feature, in my opinion. The people on discord are very helpful if you want to get into lua widget development.

Not exactly, source code is, art is not exactly and doesn't permit derived work without explicit permission: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/blob/master/LICENSE.md so you can't just release BAR as is with small amount of changes and call it your own game.

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/tree/master/music/original also right here :)

looks related to this: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/issues/1323

Github

The licensing raises an interesting question into whether it's fair or confusing to advertise this as an open source game. The game logic code is open source (Under a vague GPL license, needs to be GPLv2 compatible due to engine license) but most of the other assets are under a "CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0" license hence not open source themselves.

Not played much, but kind of interesting - I nominate NetPanzer! Open sourced in 1999 or so, is still technically in beta at 0.9.x

I just got the last maintainer to put the code up on GH [0] and have been working on the next release, hopefully later this year. I also put some servers up and setup bots.

Sadly a couple months ago the guy emailed me saying he was very sick (he's been working on the game for like 15 years and he only really writes C, I have no idea how old this guy is). He hasn't emailed me back, so I don't know if he's still alive. :( I may have to fork the game (I've also been making progress on a WASM version to play in the browser).

[0] https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer/tree/dev

Having kids is way more rewarding than working on any software project. You'll enjoy raising the kids unless you have some kind of personality disorder.

Also, I have a newborn and I work in my projects just fine. [0] Manage your time :)

[0] https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer/pull/4

NetPanzer is also an open source RTS in development for over 20 years!

https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer/tree/dev

I just setup a new masterservers and a couple game servers with bots.