Top 23 C++ Game Projects
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Project mention: Underpriced On-Ride Photos lead to Income/Profit appearing massive? | reddit.com/r/rct | 2021-10-15
You should probably report it at OpenRCT2's github.
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Making games is hard. Code is never going to be perfect and you could always contrive corner-case scenarios that break your design at any given point. For some perspective, Diablo 1 declared all the items and spells in a giant array. Do what ships the game.
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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Cataclysm-DDA
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Project mention: [Steam] Roguelike Celebration Sale: Notia (-40%), Spelunky 2 (-30%), Golden Krone Hotel (-75%), Monster Train (-50%) and more | reddit.com/r/GameDeals | 2021-10-16Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Sci-fi post-apocalyptic zombie survival game where every single doomsday scenario happened at the same time. This game has the deepest and most intricate survival and crafting system of any game out there and has a very active modding scene. The game is getting a Steam release sometime soon.
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Definitely check out DevilutionX if you decide to replay Diablo 1.
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Project mention: Can i take someone else's game and make my own version? | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-10-15
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source strategy game so you could download the source of that and tinker with that too: https://www.wesnoth.org/
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Project mention: Controversial/Unexpected Picks for Best Game of All Time (Mine: Super Mario 3D World) | reddit.com/r/patientgamers | 2021-10-16
My favorite libre game has got to be Endless Sky, personally; I've put literally thousands of hours into it... XD
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NoahGameFrame
A fast, scalable, distributed game server engine/framework for C++, include the actor library, network library, can be used as a real time multiplayer game engine ( MMO RPG/MOBA ), which support C#/Lua script/ Unity3d, Cocos2dx and plan to support Unreal.
Project mention: Hi everyone! Please pour one out for the maker of NoahGameFrame, who passed away in a car crash | reddit.com/r/gaming | 2021-07-17He was the maker of NoahGameFrame – a game server framework he developed and shared online for free.
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GDevelop
:video_game: GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
Project mention: Looped Devlog 3! 1 year of development. it seems it will take an eternity | reddit.com/r/gdevelop | 2021-10-09I would like this opportunity to thank the GDevelop community and the fireside discord for helping me make this. This game is made with GDevelop 5 btw
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The-Powder-Toy
Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat.
Project mention: Game of Life, made with Powder (app) and edited in photoshop | reddit.com/r/generative | 2021-10-10 -
Looking at the github (https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi) there looks to be some recent changes from a month or two ago, but on the website it doesn't show anything since 2017?
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Project mention: Can anyone recommend a good paid third person game development course/ tutorial? | reddit.com/r/unrealengine | 2021-09-11
Epic Survival Game
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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+
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Teeworlds is an absolute blast of a LAN party game. Fist Full of Frags is fun... Armagetron Advanced is a weird change of pace. (Tron lightcycles) Xonotic is a more modernized Unreal Tournament type experience.
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Head over to https://solar2d.com/ and visit the discord link.
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azerothcore - 3.3.5
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OpenJK
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software
Project mention: We're thrilled to announce that we will be bringing two new exciting bundles to PS4 and Nintendo Switch, in partnership with @THQNordic The STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight Collection and the STAR WARS™ Racer and Commando Combo are coming to a store near you later this year! | reddit.com/r/Games | 2021-10-12 -
BWAPI is the main way for AIs to interact with the game. It was never ported to Remastered, and now that Grant Davies left Blizzard it probably never will. There are lots of ressources, I just did a quick search for AI on this subreddit and found a bunch of posts immediately:
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Project mention: Good resources for learning how to implement skeletal animation? | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-06-14
On the otherhand, if I was going to pull in some code/an existing animation system, I have been interested in messing with https://github.com/guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation. It is pretty cool. There is a separate runtime/engine code from whatever editor/asset management you use. I've been toying with the idea of maybe pulling it into Jedi Academy.
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If you want it I made a hack to add it back but you need to compile from source. https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/issues/2034
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Project mention: XCOM Enemy Unknown is a beautifully crafted classic | reddit.com/r/patientgamers | 2021-10-09
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ActionRoguelike
Third-person Action Roguelike made in Unreal Engine C++. Project for Unreal Engine Pro C++ Course & Stanford University CS193U
Project mention: Released my free open-source C++ "Action Roguelike" for UE4 on GitHub! (AI, Multiplayer, SaveGames, etc.) | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-10-14 -
widelands
Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.
Project mention: What older game exists that when you see it mentioned, you think about starting a new run, even tho you have finished it several times. | reddit.com/r/pcgaming | 2021-09-23And for Settlers II you have Return to the Roots and Widelands.
Index
What are some of the best open-source Game projects in C++? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenRCT2 | 9,953 |
| 2 | devilution | 8,246 |
| 3 | Cataclysm-DDA | 5,693 |
| 4 | devilutionX | 4,764 |
| 5 | magnum | 3,667 |
| 6 | wesnoth | 3,386 |
| 7 | endless-sky | 3,301 |
| 8 | NoahGameFrame | 3,199 |
| 9 | GDevelop | 3,079 |
| 10 | The-Powder-Toy | 3,022 |
| 11 | vcmi | 2,470 |
| 12 | EpicSurvivalGame | 2,310 |
| 13 | warzone2100 | 1,994 |
| 14 | Teeworlds | 1,670 |
| 15 | corona | 1,626 |
| 16 | azerothcore-wotlk | 1,624 |
| 17 | OpenJK | 1,620 |
| 18 | bwapi | 1,473 |
| 19 | ozz-animation | 1,453 |
| 20 | stepmania | 1,417 |
| 21 | OpenXcom | 1,384 |
| 22 | ActionRoguelike | 1,383 |
| 23 | widelands | 1,253 |
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