fs2open VS Mindustry

Freespace is open source.

I am not familure with the.. um.. I guess you could call it the landscape of the freespace community but this was a top search result.

https://www.hard-light.net/

and here is a github project that looks correct.

https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com

And now, for free, an opinion. I enjoyed decent, but did not like freespace, I am sure there is fun subtlety to the game, but I bounces off it hard, combat in open space ended up being just these really boring circle battles. Much funner combat when you have tight claustrophobic corridors to deal with.

fs2open - FreeSpace 2 clone. C++, SDL2

Apparently, this is the official repository https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com

You have to compile FSO on MacOS yourself right now since automated builds haven’t been a thing for a while. There’s work being done on this (PR #4168), but it’s not ready yet. The pieces are mostly in place otherwise. Extracting the required files might be a challenge since the currently supported version of the Knossos doesn’t support the current GoG package format (there’s a ground up rewrite going on which should fix that, but it’s in an Alpha state right now) and Mac Steam likely doesn’t let you install Windows games, but if you can overcome that hurdle then it should work. Performance isn’t great though because Apple have neglected OpenGL on MacOS for nearly 20 years.

SEXP Containers can now store persistent data across missions (#3462)

Deep animation code changes, working towards new features but along the way has fixed many old things that never worked. See the github post for a full list of fixes brought by this stage of the ongoing overhaul. (#3609)

Mindustry - The automation tower defence RTS. Java

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/

Does it make sense to publish Deb packages for this game?

Also this commit: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479...

Or (while on the subject of Factorio) Mindustry:

[0] https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Mindustry is free and open source. Download the latest release from here.

It's not Factorio, but it's very similar and IMO has a much better PVP experience. Check it out! https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Sounds close to Mindustry.

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