EmptyEpsilon
Mindustry
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8.3 | 9.9 | |
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Lua | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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EmptyEpsilon
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The £3M immersive 'spaceship' where you can battle to save humanity
The engine is built on FOSS: https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
Looks like they're working off a fork of a fork: https://github.com/clockwork-dog/EmptyEpsilon/commits/main/
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Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator
Thorium is great; it's closer to a virtual tabletop for starship RPGs than a standalone game, built around creating interactive narratives. That sets it apart from the more straightforward game-style bridge sims, like Artemis[1] and EmptyEpsilon[2], which have scriptable scenarios with narrative elements but have more fundamentally game-focused mechanics.
All of these get used in a lot of fun ways for live events beyond their design, too. Thorium's "family tree" comes from interactive events at planetariums, and EmptyEpsilon, being open-source with an HTTP API and game-master screen for directly manipulating live game state and pretending to be ships, became a popular front-end for European LARPs.[3]
1: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/
2: https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
3: https://www.odysseuslarp.com/blog/steering-the-starship-empt...
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
Empty Epsilon bridge simulator: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon
The game itself is fun, but the best stuff I've seen is it being reused, modified, and adapted for LARPs and crowdplay.
Out of Orbit is a great and ongoing example, a Finnish escape room-ish experience that also has a Twitch game putting stream chat in the role of the ship's AI: https://outoforbit.fi/ and https://www.twitch.tv/outoforbitgame/about
Empty Epsilon powers the game part, with integrations using its DMX interface and HTTP API to provide hardware interfaces and things like Twitch chat commands modifying the game state.
- Ask HN: What game you wished existed?
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10 player LAN Party: What are some good games?
EmptyEpsilon - a free multiplayer bridge simulator. Each ship is typically crewed by 3-6 people, but you can run multiple ships in the same game or get mods that add/change roles.
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Is there any current Co-op tank game with campaign (against AI enemies? Not RTS, not multiplayer, just driver and gunner doing missions in a campaign.
"the open source": Empty Epsilon. A little more complex of a simulation than Artemis, but feels much more limited from a mission standpoint, mostly due to lack of development from that aspect. Does away with the "Star Trek" feel of Artemis for a more industrial feeling.
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Making a game in C++
If you want to look at an interesting open source C++ game project that (iirc) uses SFML, you could check out Empty Epsilon.
Mindustry
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Mindustry - The automation tower defence RTS. Java
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Ask HN: Factorio-Like Game for Kids?
Mindustry[1] is quite similar.
This one isn't quite the same, but OpenTTD[2] might be of interest to you. It's fun and it's simple enough for kids to get the hang of.
- [1]: https://mindustrygame.github.io/
- [2]: https://openttd.org/
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Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
Does it make sense to publish Deb packages for this game?
Also this commit: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479...
- Mindustry: Full game source code [Java, NotGodot]
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Factorio: Space Age
Or (while on the subject of Factorio) Mindustry:
[0] https://mindustrygame.github.io/
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[Steam] Summer Sale 2023 (Final Day)
Mindustry is free and open source. Download the latest release from here.
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Why nobody plays competitively? :D PvP
It's not Factorio, but it's very similar and IMO has a much better PVP experience. Check it out! https://mindustrygame.github.io/
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3d co-op tower defense game
Sounds close to Mindustry.
- I can't find a single good game
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The complete guide to publishing free software video games
Not sure what qualifies as 'highly successful', 'from the start', etc. but Mindustry[0] is GPL, is actively updated, accepts and includes contributions from third parties and is available commercially.
[0] https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
What are some alternatives?
symphony-of-empires - Symphony of the Empires is a RTS strategy game and map game.
shapez.io - shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!
teiserver - Middleware server for online gaming
playforia-minigolf - Client & Server for Minigolf Game known from Playforia/Playray/Appeli. Written in Java.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
steam - ☁️ Python package for interacting with Steam
axl.glfl - An organized multiplatform OpenGL function loader.
MindustryBuilds - Latest builds for Mindustry
OpenTTD - OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Minetest - Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
Lila - ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞ [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila]