Open Source Game of the Year
 

Back by popular demand.

--jeremy

Tremulous?

Wormux is good, but it's not out of beta, so there is no single-player mode yet unless you want to play both sides yourself. I'd still vote for it if it was on the list, though.

Nexuiz didn't make it in?

I think nexuiz may not be completely open source.

Planeshift is a game I've been watching for the past couple of years now. I don't know if it can be included or not for a couple of reasons. Although Planeshift's source code is under the GPL, all graphics and sounds and such are proprietary (though free as in beer) and the game is only alpha quality. I'm just throwing it out as a suggestion, but it might be debatable because of these reasons.

http://www.planeshift.it/about.html

you miss these great games:
http://maniadrive.raydium.org
http://vdrift.net
http://www.racer.nl

why the poll is closed??

I nominate Astromenace by Viewizard. Great game. Just great.

http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php

Thanks for adding Nexuiz!

Frets On Fire.
I personally don't play the game but my kids are all over it. What I like the most is that G**t*r H*r* songs (being .ogg files) work in it, and the mods happening for this thing show how one can be current and stay true to open source (well, as close as one can get in this case anyway)

Hi, I do not know what these games mentioned are about. Are they sims, rpgs, strategy, action, multi-player or what???
I'm asking because most games I've run across lately are boring..same old, same old. I'm wondering what other people are interested in playing.
I would like to write a game where others could add modules to it and be compatible, genre etc. However, not knowing what people are looking for in the way of game entertainment, it makes it a little tenuous at best.

As an aside: I'm surprised there were no votes on Jeremy's "What programming language do you prefer"?
Is it that people don't program, except for commercial resale?

Guvvy.

To find out what the games are about use google.

Here is a good list of what some are interested in playing
http://rangit.com/software/top-8-linux-games-of-2007/

There are no votes because none of the polls are open.

Armagetron Advanced? This tron remake is one of most addicting games ever IMHO.

World of Padman is a great game not many people no about. It uses the quake III engine.
http://padworld.myexp.de/index.php?news

I think you should consider x-moto

Foobillards :)

A couple of more...

Beyond the Red Line, a Battlestar Galactica space flight sim based on the Freespace engine.

UFO: Alien Invasion, a turn-based strategy game similar to the old XCOM UFO series.

Danger From The Deep, a WWII U-boat simulator.

Hard to decide between FreeCiv and Wesnoth (if I don't count our own Thousand Parsec :)). But I guess I play FreeCiv the most of the two and so my vote goes to it.

I am in for GNU chess any day - any time :)

Torcs!

http://torcs.sourceforge.net

GPL'ed too.

I vote for torcs too!!!

This one is too hard to vote on; so no vote, but great section still (YS Flight would be my vote, yet not Open :( )

Although quite buggy, I love SuperTuxCart.

I also love OpenArena.

I like X-Motto even though it really is to difficult to be really fun.

Been playing Nexuiz several months ago while still had some free time. Great game.

lbreakout
 

Can you please include the game "lBreakOut2"?
Not voting right now!

I love Tremulous, but I have to say Battle of Wesnoth is awesome. So Wesnoth is my pick.

I voted for Nexuiz, pretty good shooter. It was a tough call though... I like SuperTux a lot: Brings me back good memories from the classic Mario, but well, with Tux :D.

Torcs is a game with great potential as well. Graphically, it is not very impressive, but I don't really care about that. What I personally don't like with Torcs is the way the car turns... one little step outside the track regardless of your speed will make your car go wild. It also feels like the cars weight is way off (too light) and it shows often when you turn and the road is not completely plane. This is definitely a project I will be looking in the future.

I believe TuxRacer is dead? No? Their page has not been updated for a very long time. There are other projects around, like Extreme Tuxracer which are build upon TuxRacer before TuxRacer went commercial. Well, at least I think it is dead.

I should give FlightGear another shot as well. Been getting into MS Flight Simulator again lately :)

I am glad Tux Racer is dead, death to the traitor. It is like making a game staring the GNU and releasing it under DRM.

I like PPRacer a Tux Racer derivative.

Can you add torcs to the list? I demand my vote!

I wish I could vote for more than one... but I vote frozen-bubble. The most original, super-fun/addictive game ever known to open-source.

I never heard of PPRacer. Thanks for the tip. I was kinda sad when TuxRacer went commercial as well. There were many improvements on their enhanced version though. Personally, I've nothing against paying money for software, but when a project starts under one free license and then goes totally commercial is kinda weird. All they did in the long run was to kill the game.

It is confirmed though. TuxRacer is dead. Their pages has not been updated since 2004 and tuxracer.org is officially Cybersquatted. Open Racer is also dead and PlanetPenguin changed its name to Extreme TuxRacer. So basically, from the list in this pool, the only game that could get votes is actually TuxRacer, unless it somehow makes sense to vote for a dead 2004 game as the best open source game for 2007 :)

Isn't LBreakout kinda dead?
I'd love to see some newer games on the list. Many applications seam to be the same appearing in those fora every year.

Personally I'd vote for PyChess, which is a very nifty gtk chess interface.

Also, as free engines like Glaurung, Fruit, Toga and Crafty are so much stronger than GnuChess, why is just GnuChess chosen?

I can't believe there isn't http://www.lbz3d.com/ on the list!
all try immediately!
BEWARE it's addictive and dual player!
My favorite is the old lbz, but the lbz3d has more advanced features.
a shame!
no vote from me except for lbz!

This isn't open source but I think urban terror is the best free game out there.
http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php
It's similar to counterstrike but i actually like it better.

Are you sure about that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_Bobble

Either way, yes... It's a very good remake of the original puzzle bobble and whatnot, and the online play is a nice touch. I think they could have mixed it up a bit and not be a full on remake of Puzzle Bobble... (Seriously, would gameplay variants hurt too much?)

Please add Blob Wars 2

Appearantly, they wanted well-seasoned players of Puzzle-Bobble to be well-seasoned players of Frozen-Bubble too.

Okay, I guess it wasn't a very original game, but it is addictive :).

Battle for Wesnoth by miles!

Hello,
Could you add OpenArena?

no Warsow? please add it.

I like it's graphics and it's fast!

Urban Terror 4.1

netpanzer, warzone and neverball.

ahh, :D, the nice foggy neverball :D :D

I have just tried Battle for Wesnoth. While the gameplay is not my cup of tea, I must say that presentation-wise, this game is far above most open-sourced games I've played. Music, graphics, gameplay, stability, portability... everything is top notch here.

I better learn how to play it :)

What no Cube? I would think a fully-capable, modern, high powered first person shooter would make the list. Now, it doesn't have *all* the polish of Halo, but frankly it's not far behind. Plays like a Quake-improved.

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
http://assault.cubers.net/media.html

+1

Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube are great games. Cube is especially good for low end machines as it's really fast and Sauerbraten is great if you have a PC with reasonable performance (i.e. something more powerful than Intel GMA graphics).

And where is Blobby Volley2???????? Surely the greatest game ever created.

Also I love GNU Backgammon, definitely deserves a place on the list.

Wesnoth is a bit of a learning curve! But grapx are astounding. Y r all other equally-good-in-grafx so grapfx-card hungry?