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You can now vote for your favorite products of 2008. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends February 12th.

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View Poll Results: Open Source Game of the Year
Battle for Wesnoth 90 17.31%
BZFlag 12 2.31%
FlightGear 27 5.19%
Freeciv 18 3.46%
Frozen Bubble 48 9.23%
GNU Chess 20 3.85%
NetHack 22 4.23%
SuperTux 25 4.81%
SuperTuxKart 12 2.31%
Tux Racer 16 3.08%
Nexuiz 40 7.69%
Tremulous 14 2.69%
Frets On Fire 33 6.35%
Armagetron Advanced 7 1.35%
World of Padman 15 2.88%
LBreakout2 14 2.69%
TORCS 12 2.31%
xtris 3 0.58%
PokerTH 11 2.12%
UFO: Alien Invasion 18 3.46%
Open Arena 63 12.12%
Voters: 520. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-13-2009, 11:23 AM   #31
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I think openredalert made the splash for me and i think is worth an mention

http://code.google.com/p/openredalert/
 
Old 01-14-2009, 12:48 AM   #32
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all sux
 
Old 01-14-2009, 02:30 AM   #33
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Wormux definitely! It is not in the list though
 
Old 01-14-2009, 07:09 PM   #34
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From saurbraten.org
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The engine supporting the game is entirely original in code & design, and its code is Open Source (ZLIB license, read the docs for more on how you can use the engine).
Yeah, it's OSS.
 
Old 01-14-2009, 08:14 PM   #35
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we need Urban Terror 4.1 in the poll!!!
 
Old 01-14-2009, 10:50 PM   #36
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They are not OSS games, because their content is not compatible to GPL.
 
Old 01-15-2009, 03:18 AM   #37
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Everyone's a Winner!

Mahjongg is a part of GNOME Games
 
Old 01-15-2009, 03:20 AM   #38
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What about OpenTTD?

Is it possible to add game in subject?
 
Old 01-15-2009, 07:17 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by Mega Man X View Post
Anyway, I am confused about Sauerbraten. On wikipedia, it stands as open source. On their page, no mention of open source. Not that I like the game though, but I wanted to know for sure if it is open source or not
Really ? Look what I found in the index page of their site. Although I don't know whether only the engine is open source or everything.

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The engine supporting the game is entirely original in code & design, and its code is Open Source (ZLIB license, read the docs for more on how you can use the engine).
 
Old 01-15-2009, 07:33 AM   #40
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nexuiz

http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/
 
Old 01-15-2009, 08:15 AM   #41
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Question Include Urban Terror

what about Urban Terror included in the voting list?
 
Old 01-15-2009, 08:41 AM   #42
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They are not OSS games, because their content is not compatible to GPL.
Please don't bring license zealotry into this. The Zlib license is a well established OSS license. It meets the OSI definition, has passed the DFSG and is FSF approved. Further, it is GPL-compatible if you cared to look it up.

Seriously though, Saurbraten is in the Debian repositories. That means that at least the Debian folks thought it counted.
 
Old 01-15-2009, 08:47 AM   #43
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Urban Terror is not Open Source. WRT the engine being open vs the game being open, we'll revisit the criteria for being included in this poll next year and either discontinue the poll altogether or have very explicit inclusion criteria.

--jeremy
 
Old 01-15-2009, 01:02 PM   #44
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BZFlag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Old 01-15-2009, 04:25 PM   #45
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GNU Chess is the only game i play on Linux distros
 
  


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