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.

(Image: Jaakko Peltonen, Public domain)

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

(Image: See below, CC BY-SA 2.0)

StepMania 5 in 2011

(Image: Hanno Böck, CC0)

StepMania running on an arcade machine around 2011

0 A.D.

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

(Image: Mo5ul, CC BY-SA 4.0)

0 A.D. in 2015

(Image: Wildfire Games, CC BY-SA 3.0)

0 A.D. in 2019

(Image: Wildfire Games, CC BY-SA 3.0)

0 A.D. in 2021

BZ Flag

BZFlag in 2005

(Image: hajatvrc, CC BY-SA 3.0)

BZFlag in 2010

Super TuxKart

Tuxkart 0.4.0 released in 2004

SuperTuxKart in 0.7 2010

(Image: SuperTuxKart development team, CC BY-SA 3.0)

SuperTuxKart 0.8 in 2013

(Image: STK dev team, CC BY 3.0)

SuperTuxKart 0.9 in 2015

(Image: QwertyChouskie, CC BY-SA 4.0)

SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 Splitscreen multiplayer in 2017

(Image: QwertyChouskie, CC BY-SA 4.0)

SuperTuxKart in 2018

Cube

(Image: Rabid Viper Productions, Public domain)

AssaultCube in 2006

(Image: Johannes Schneider, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Cube 2: Sauerbraten in 2011

Minetest

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

(Image: LazyJ, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Minetest in 2016

(Image: SoylentCow, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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

(Image: Yo Frankie! development team, CC BY 3.0)

Yo Frankie! in 2008

Frets on Fire in 2009

(Image: Warsow Team, CC BY 3.0)

Warsow in 2012

Secret Maryo Chronicles in 2013

References

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

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