Sorry, but it was the way you talk about it in this blog post that ticked me off a bit. For people on Wins, like my brother, even that's not necessary, due to the automatic installer. With the amount of hassle a huge amount of open source games give you, Spring isn't really that bad if you'd just bother to read the basic readmes and what not. Thing is, and I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but, since you get to swear, so do I. Because the maps are all made via the same process and compatible. the Spring Engine page, the Spring official lobby server, people will tell you if you ask.ħ. There are links to pages which host mods and maps pretty much everywhere, i.e. The automatic downloader is a built in torrent system and has been now taken offline due to problems. The relationship between the Engine and the Games (mods) is mentioned on their website.ĥ. And then there's the lobby, which is used for connecting to multiplayer servers, which in turn help organise battles, host chatrooms, log your in game time and assign you ranks. It's not nonsense, there's the actual engine, which you can launch separately for testing and single player stuff and such. Heya, just popped back for a short Not a major problem, I guess.ģ. Now lets compare that to any other sane game: selects mod, wait why do the maps from the other mod show up in the selection of this mod too? this is crap. Downloads some other free mods from the webħ. slow as f*** and stops downloading half way.Ħ. Tests the automatic downloader with downloads (actually illegal) Total Anhilation files. doesn't start at all.ahh ok I have to download a mod for it.ĥ. Ermm why is it seperated into a some sort of launcher and the game itself? This is nonsense :(Ĥ. Wait, what? No single download file which includes all the stuff you need for Linux (.deb would be nice, but a tarball would be sufficient)?Ģ. Give it another shot, you might be pleasantly surprised.ġ:06 lol yeah you are probably I got it running on my Ubuntu box alright, but here is my experience:ġ. In any case, Spring has become hugely popular around our workplace and LAN parties beginning around 8pm on a friday regularly run into the early hours of the morning, sometimes with visits to the club next door. Well, Warzone 2100 was very nice, but at the time being simply a commercial title gone open years after release kinda didn't seem like a good demonstration of entertainment that the open source community can provide one with. Hopefully this doesn't look like too much of an advert for Spring (I'm not a developer), but when I was looking for a reliable open source crossplatform multiplayer combat based RTS to run our LAN parties with, I found it way ahead of anything else. If you have any problems, we'd be glad to share our experience. And in case you're running Ubuntu, Karmic has it already included in the 'Ubuntu software center' or what have you. Spring hard to set up? I don't know, we regularly run Spring LAN parties on Ubuntu, across about 10 computers, plus people joining in on a variety of other flavors of Linux and Windows.Įven back when I was a complete Linux noob I managed to set it up rather easily by following the instructions provided on site. It is not quite what you would expect from this description as most of the MMO part is done manually by human game moderators, which exchange ASC games states between players (sorry, it is a bit hard to explain exactly ) ).Ī similar game to ASC is Crimson Fields by the way, which has found its way to many mobile platforms.Īnother often neglected game is Widelands, which is obviously based on the classic game the Settlers (no not the Settlers of Catan, check Pioneers for that). Granted, its graphics are pretty much the same as its big inspiration, the classic Battle Isle series, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad, right?Ī new version was just released a few days ago, which finally also includes a tutorial for those new to this type of game.Īlso interesting is the (German) Project: Battle Planets, which could be described as a MMOTBS based on ASC. I guess I don't really need to mention the classics to the typical reader of this blog, but Wesnoth, FreeCiv, FreeCol and UFO:AI are all very playable and good looking games! However there are others that get less attention and also some that show great promise!Īdvanced strategic command is one of those that gets relatively little news coverage, even though it is a really playable game. there a quite a few really great non RTS FOSS strategy games. OK, I forgot to mention Spring1944, but I am also a bit reluctant to mention Spring and its mods since it is such a pain in the backside to get it running correctly. So, we mentioned some promising RTS games in the last update. An update so quickly? Behold the Free Gamer world is coming to an end.
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