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Re: Open Source Game Idea - Simple Networkable First Person Shooter - An

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Subject: Re: Open Source Game Idea - Simple Networkable First Person Shooter - Anyone Remember Avara?
From: Lance Massey <lmspam at neuropop dot com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:01:23 -0500
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I started experimenting w/ Joe's Renegades engine and Netmaze code earlier this year to build a Virtual World interface to my web site.

The project was more like Second Life than an FPS, but could be another possibility...?


On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Frank Condello wrote:

On 24-Apr-05, at 5:12 PM, Robert Steely wrote:

There are many first-person shooters out there, but there are none (that I am aware of) that meet all of these criteria:

- Designed from the ground up for internet play
- Very reasonable hardware requirements
- Cross-platform
- Open source
- Free of charge

Sounds like Cube <http://cube.sourceforge.net/> - its even got a networked map editor!

Then there's the open source but not entirely free QuakeWorld (i.e. the mother of all online FPS games). There are loads of QuakeWorld ports out there but I'm partial to this one <http://macglquake.sourceforge.net/> (I am a tad biased however!)

- Written using the world's best programming environment, REALbasic!

All right, you got me there...

Would anyone be interested in seeing or helping with such a game?

I'm an FPS junky, but this genre has gotten saturated to the point where I haven't even bought Half Life 2 yet. You'll have a lot of competition too - Older commercial FPS games go for next to nothing nowadays - I recently bought Unreal 2, DeusEx 2, and SIN for a _total_ of $13 - Canadian! Unreal 2 was $14.99 with a $15 rebate, so they actually paid me to play it!

Unless you've got a unique gameplay twist or uber-shiny-bumpy-realtime-shadow graphics, most people will poopoo the game before even trying it.

My 2 cents,
Frank.
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