Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

The longest list I know of is http://osgameclones.com/

There is also the clone for Caesar III. Found here: https://bitbucket.org/dalerank/caesaria/wiki/Home

One of my favorite games and Caesaria, last I checked had some bugs, but pretty playable.

I'll add VCMI to your list as it's project I work on. It's open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III. We're always happy to see any C++ programmers who wish to join us!

http://vcmi.eu/

https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi

I'll add Spring, which started as a Total Annihilation engine, but has since grown into a full blown RTS engine. https://springrts.com/

one of the last tweets from @_why said: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

And CorsixTH for Theme Hospital!

https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH

Amazing indeed. I'd add to that list OpenJK for the Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast games [1]. This is actually based on the released original source code, but continues to improve it and fix bugs while maintaining backwards compatibility. Great work. (As with most of these, assets from original CD are needed to play.)

[1] https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

Don't forget http://www.freecol.org/

Let's not forget scummvm for Lucas Arts adventure games (with support for other adventure games data added later)

It's not a super-active project these days, but I'd also mention OpenJazz: http://www.alister.eu/jazz/oj/

I did a homebrew formula for it a while back, though there's a more complete one now in homebrew/games:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-games/blob/master/openj...

Yet more evidence that things should become public domain after 15 years.

Don't forget Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft).

The Doom ecosystem is huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_source_ports

Technically it's 0 A.D., but that's a minor note. For those unfamiliar with the project, check out http://play0ad.com. It's a very mature codebase with over 10 years of development behind it. Everything is free as in freedom. One area they excel in that many other open-source games struggle with is in the quality of their models and art. I even know several other open source games which re-use the models.

Actually availability of game on Steam only benefit project like openage because it's increased audience of AoE2 a lot. It's was a good game, but community was slowly dying over many years.

In same time "proprietary executable" it's just slightly updated version of 16 years old engine with all it's problems with simulation and networking performance. There of course some patches released, but HD not going to be rewritten from scratch and obviously not going to solve main problems.

In the short-term you are right, but in 5+ years AoE2 HD is going to run into the same problems and then this version might become more popular.

You're looking at a wrapper around libopenage, which is written in C++:

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/tree/master/libopenage

It uses both. C++14 for the engine, and Python for the convert script and some other things. Check the README for more information.

Gabe Newell is tongue-in-cheek worshipped in the gaming community and has been for many years. Far from a dig. Any time you see a photograph or reference to him, it's an in joke, much like the guy who used to work at Twitch and became Kappa. Why this happened is a mix of things from Half Life to Steam, and it's honestly been long enough that nobody remembers or cares.

The problem is, just like some recent folks on /pol/, the newer crowd doesn't realize it's a joke so Gabe has to be cautious how he interacts with the public now. I'm amazed he still handles his own email. He popped up on Reddit recently and amazingly corralled the discussion toward his (real world) car racing team, but it took work on his part. People hug him in public and he's said before that's taken adjustment.

I've seen a GABEN license plate, to give you an idea of how far that gag goes. Funny you mentioned MSFT, too, because most people who perpetuate the gag don't know he worked there at one point; it might even predate their life.

I suppose it's full of Newell references. Found this when browsing the renderer:

    GameRenderer::~GameRenderer() { 
     	// oh noes, release hl3 before that! 
     	delete this->gaben;

Check out http://www.openra.net/

* Actively developed (newest release just over a week ago)

* Cross platform (Linux/OS X/Windows)

* Reasonably active online player base

I play it semi-regularly and it's a lot of fun!

Like many doom/quake clones (before ID released the source) I expect openage to be supplied without the artwork, you will need an original CD/image for that.

Website is hosted on GitHub Pages so any website using same CDN IP could be reason.

https://www.robtex.com/?dns=23.235.43.133&rev=1