EmptyEpsilon
OpenRA
EmptyEpsilon | OpenRA | |
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8 | 256 | |
514 | 14,166 | |
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8.3 | 9.6 | |
1 day ago | about 14 hours ago | |
Lua | C# | |
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.
OpenRA
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The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
Recently, my friends and I recreated our old LAN parties. Went up to a cabin in the woods, brought some cheap network switches, and had everyone install OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/, open red alert), and had a blast, even with everyone on laptops (mac/win). You can still do this in 2024 and it's worth it!
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Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?
After the movies, I wanted to experience Dune 2 again (the pirate sites have it, along with patches to make it playable on modern OSes or Crossover). It was arguably the first mass-market real-time strategy game. There's also OpenRA for C&C, Red Alert, and Dune 2K: https://www.openra.net/
I understand Square is re-making FF7 in a multi-part release over several years (not sure why it takes so long)? https://ffvii-remake-intergrade.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ Once it's all out, I might play through that again just for nostalgia's sake (and for the soundtrack, of course! Twenty years later, I still have Aeris's Theme stuck in my head from time to time)
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There has never been a better time to game on Linux
Obligatory reminder:Red Alert,Command & Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era.
https://www.openra.net/
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Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard cleared by UK
I recently found an open source version that has been fun (https://www.openra.net/).
- OpenRA: CNC/Red Alert on a modern engine
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OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
You can import those from ISOs: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Game-Content but the campaign is not complete afaik as it needs to be re-built in OpenRA: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/4989 (I think this is the related ticket)
- Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
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Any way to play on a MacBook Pro?
Alternatively OpenRA has a bunch of C&C inspired mods: https://www.openra.net I think this way is the easiest way to get a C&C like experience on a M1 Mac right now.
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What makes you feel better?
www.openra.net
What are some alternatives?
symphony-of-empires - Symphony of the Empires is a RTS strategy game and map game.
Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.
teiserver - Middleware server for online gaming
OpenDUNE - DUNE, REINVENTED
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
OpenKeeper - Dungeon Keeper II remake
axl.glfl - An organized multiplatform OpenGL function loader.
OpenTTD - OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Mindustry - The automation tower defense RTS
daggerfall-unity - Open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine
warzone2100 - Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+