GtkRadiant is a level design program developed by id Software and Loki
Software. It is used to create maps for a number of computer games.
GtkRadiant originated as Q3Radiant, the Quake III Arena level design tool,
which was a Windows-only application. Two major things are different in
GtkRadiant: it is based on the GTK+ toolkit, so it also works in Linux and Mac
OS X, and it's also game engine-independent, with functionality for new games
added as game packs.
GtkRadiant is an Open Source application. Source code is publicly available
from id Software's Subversion repository and new additions to the code are
covered under open source licenses. The core Q3Radiant code, however, was
originally under id Software's proprietary license. The license for both the
editor and toolset (notably Q3Map2, the BSP compiler) was changed in February
2006, and publicly released under the GPL on February 17.
More up-to-date fork, NetRadiant, is available as `games/netradiant' port.
This is the core pack for RetroArch. Mostly these cores are
intended for playing/interpreting the retrogames. They are for the
most part distributed by the Libretro organization, and are usually
licensed under GPL.
Inform7 for FreeBSD is a CLI implementation of the Inform 7 programming
language and environment by Graham Nelson. Inform is a design system
for interactive fiction (IF) based on natural language.
Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each
player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the
ultimate goal: to become the greatest civilization.
Players of the Civilization series by Microprose should feel at home,
since one aim of Freeciv is to have optional modes (called rulesets)
with compatible rules.
Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts,
and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!
That also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something
rare in games.
-Adam <adam-ports@blacktabby.org>
Urban Terror is a realism based total conversion mod for Quake III Arena which
no longer requires this game to be played. It only uses its engine, which is
open sourced through the GPL and may be distributed freely. Urban Terror plays
in about the same setting as Counter Strike, but is less focused on realism
and plays much faster, which among other things, is caused by the ability to
strafe jump, which combined with wall jumping can lead to very quick movement
and nice jumps. Urban Terror has 7 game modes, 25 maps and 15 weapons.
This port installs a modified ioquake3 engine for Urban Terror called
ioUrbanTerror, and depends on the data, resulting in a playable game.
Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client (interface)
for chess servers. It currently supports these servers:
* The Internet Chess Club (aka ICC)
* The Free Internet Chess Server (aka FICS)
A short list of Jin's main features:
* Graphical chess board with many board patterns and piece sets
to choose from. You can also create your own
* Chat/Command console with (customizable) color-coding for
different types of chat/text
* A seek graph, showing the currently sought games in a visual manner
* Flexible game logger, which saves your finished games to your
hard disk (doesn't work in JinApplet)
* A scripter, which allows you to define automatic responses
to certain events
* A list of common actions, which can be quickly executed
at the press of a button
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source,
multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project.
Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the
GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for
the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation
ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a
sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and
improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim.
We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many
people in many areas.
Doom 3 is a sci-fi horror first-person shooter computer game developed by id
Software and published by Activision. Set in 2145 in the Union Aerospace
Corporation (UAC) research center on Mars, it is a reimagining of the original
Doom, with completely new graphics and game engine.
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source,
multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project.
Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the
GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for
the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation
ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a
sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and
improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim.
We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many
people in many areas.
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is the Ultimate Online Strategic Shooter:
an objective-driven, class-based first person shooter set in the Quake universe.