The Mozilla Foundation is swimming in money from its Firefox ad programs, and I have seen little information indicating that they are using the money for the good of the entire Free Software movement. I promise it is highly relevant to the task at hand. But this is a thing I have been thinking a lot about lately, and I haven't heard it discussed in here before. I'm afraid I have to go off topic for a moment. We all agree that most free software games don't work out, right? For all the interesting aspects in Tux Racer, it isn't nearly up to the standards of commercial software, and masterpieces like Tremulous are the exception in OSS. There are many awesome things happening in academia on this subject right now, for example from SIGGRAPH 2006.
I'm thinking something along the lines of procedural content generation, the major problem is creating all the models we need for a real game. There is a pattern here.maybe we could improve things by liberating more commercial gaming software? It's either that, or someone with authority has to take a lot more responsibility in designing tools for creating open-source games. These stats are quite an opponent to match, but nothing would be better than the sorry state of Free Software gaming getting better.Ī lot of the more interesting free software games are in fact based on the GPLed Quake 3 engine. The aliens play like nothing you've ever tried before, except maybe that they are somewhat inspired by Alien vs.
Some of the innovations of Tremulous include wall-walking, strategy elements and a balanced two-class system reminescent of Starcraft. I have never played AA, and the article is very low on details. Tremulous is one of the most interesting team action games I have ever played, far surpassing Counter-Strike and its cronies. Yes, I would love to hear in what ways Alien Arena surpasses Tremulous.
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