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Top 23 C++ Game Projects
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A more sophisticated approach may be to use something like Tiled (https://www.mapeditor.org), but it typically takes a lot of code to to parse a Tiled map, so I wouldn’t start there. The exact needs of your game will dictate the approaches you use. Starting simple means you can make good, visible progress getting your game to work. And I’m sure that plenty of real games have shipped where the levels are just text files.
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Cataclysm-DDA
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Content: * Revamp foldable solar panels by ehughsbaird * Add the starting profession by Lupotech-CDDA * Give Eddie some more personality. by MNG-cataclysm * Stockings variants by gettingusedto * Gives the drop hammer an anvil quality. by Daved27hundred * Cattail can be planted in shallow water by Light-Wave * Adds a small onpause buff to Brawling by Termineitor244 * Add a variant of standing stones for fields by John-Candlebury * Added a new loadout to start as an EOD technician by kingjosh-1120 * HWP breacher configuration by GuardianDll
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Project mention: Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-17
Reverse engineered from some partial leaks: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution#introduction
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Project mention: I'm shrarch for a mod who changes the language to Spanish but not changed anything more | /r/Diablo | 2023-09-17
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#6 - OpenTTD - Transport Tycoon Deluxe... with multiplayer.... it has the most Win98 Interface, but once you get past that... this is the best and most amazing free sim tycoon game you will ever find.
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Cool, I didn't realize Runescape private servers were a thing still.
I contribute to AzerothCore[0] pretty regularly. There's a lot of improvements that could be made, but it's overall fun and the majority of people who frequent their Discord are friendly enough.
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InfluxDB
Collect and Analyze Billions of Data Points in Real Time. Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Run at any scale in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
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Project mention: Hello do you guys know a free game to just chill with my friend. | /r/gamingsuggestions | 2023-07-10
I don't think there's much in terms of managerial/4x f2p games (afaik)...closest thing that comes to mind would be The Battle for Wesnoth which I wouldn't recommend for "turning off" your brain.
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Project mention: Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-25
Sounds very similar to Endless Sky[1] - another open source game drawing on the old Escape Velocity games. I really enjoyed both Endless Sky and the Escape Velocity games, so I'll have to check out Naev at some point!
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Project mention: Want to a 3D game without a game engine but not having to deal with opengl stuff ? | /r/gamedev | 2022-12-09
Magnum
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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.
I love these kinds of sandbox games, Orb Farm was super nice to have it running directly in the browser for a little procrastination break. Although my favorite is probably The Powder Toy [0], I've been following this project for years.
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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.
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Project mention: VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19
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ActionRoguelike
Third-person Action Roguelike made in Unreal Engine C++. Project for Unreal Engine C++ Course & Stanford University
Project mention: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-14A course that finally made Unreal "click" for me, after years of toying with it, was Tom Looman's 'Professional Game Development in C++ and Unreal Engine' course. The source for what you build (with the chapters available in the git history) is here. [1] It was based on a class he taught and so also includes homework, which I found infinitely more valuable than just following along in a 'Here's how to [x].' type lesson.
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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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Project mention: Show HN: Play Heroes of Might and Magic II demo from 1996 in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-28
Emscripten port https://github.com/midzer/fheroes2 took me over 24 hours due removal of multi-threaded code - and rather slow compile laptop. Currently Browser Audio API can't run in a worker at all. PThreads are stable in Emscripten but can make issues for example if main thread is blocked via mutexes.
Based on Original port https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 THX!
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It's a modied bsd license from what I see. https://github.com/teeworlds/teeworlds/blob/master/license.txt
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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: Microsoft could cram more ads into Windows 11 – this time in the Settings app | Recent moves with the Start menu are now being echoed within the Settings panel in testing | /r/technology | 2023-05-08 -
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.
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Love(ed) that game.
Always wonder where they get their "recruits", who seem to have trouble with aiming their weapons towards the enemy.
There's an open-source & cross platform remake of the engine. You still need the original game assets.
Easy to mod - he config files are YAML.
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2023-12-01.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game projects in C++? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | OpenRCT2 | 12,461 |
| 2 | tiled | 10,228 |
| 3 | Cataclysm-DDA | 9,166 |
| 4 | devilution | 8,577 |
| 5 | devilutionX | 7,283 |
| 6 | OpenTTD | 5,425 |
| 7 | azerothcore-wotlk | 4,898 |
| 8 | wesnoth | 4,778 |
| 9 | endless-sky | 4,637 |
| 10 | magnum | 4,567 |
| 11 | The-Powder-Toy | 4,073 |
| 12 | NoahGameFrame | 3,838 |
| 13 | vcmi | 3,619 |
| 14 | EpicSurvivalGame | 3,047 |
| 15 | ActionRoguelike | 2,946 |
| 16 | warzone2100 | 2,853 |
| 17 | fheroes2 | 2,315 |
| 18 | corona | 2,307 |
| 19 | Teeworlds | 2,204 |
| 20 | ozz-animation | 2,116 |
| 21 | OpenJK | 1,890 |
| 22 | widelands | 1,848 |
| 23 | OpenXcom | 1,759 |
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