History of video games/Open games

Intro

Open Source games are interesting from a historical point of view, because they allow the examination of a codebase and development cycle over time.

Nethack

  • Nethack received its first release in 1987.
  • Falcon's Eye, a graphical remake of Nethack from 1999.

Battle for Wesnoth

  • Battle for Wesnoth in 2003
  • Battle for Wesnoth in 2008
  • Battle for Wesnoth in 2015

Neverball

  • Neverball in 2006
  • Neverball in 2014
  • Neverball in 2019

StepMania

  • StepMania neoMAX2 in 2009
  • StepMania 5 in 2011
  • StepMania running on an arcade machine around 2011

0 A.D.

Read more about 0 A.D. in its Wikibook.

  • 0 A.D. in 2015
  • 0 A.D. in 2019
  • 0 A.D. in 2021

BZ Flag

  • BZFlag in 2005
  • BZFlag in 2010

Super TuxKart

  • Tuxkart 0.4.0 released in 2004
  • SuperTuxKart in 0.7 2010
  • SuperTuxKart 0.8 in 2013
  • SuperTuxKart 0.9 in 2015
  • SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 Splitscreen multiplayer in 2017
  • SuperTuxKart in 2018

Cube

  • AssaultCube in 2006
  • Cube 2: Sauerbraten in 2011

Minetest

In 2011 the first early release (0.2.20110731_3) of Minetest was posted to Github.[1]

  • Minetest in 2016
  • Minetest in 2020

Nexuiz & Xonotic

  • Nexuiz beta in 2004
  • Nexuiz in 2005
  • Nexuiz in 2006
  • Nexuiz in 2008
  • Xonotic in 2019

Other Open Source and Free Software Games

  • .kkrieger in 2004
  • Lincity NG in 2005
  • Yo Frankie! in 2008
  • Frets on Fire in 2009
  • Warsow in 2012
  • Secret Maryo Chronicles in 2013

References

  1. ↑ "Release 0.2.20110731_3 · minetest/minetest". GitHub. Retrieved 12 December 2020.


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