It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?
I wish there were more Open Source games.
Recently discovered Veloren, maybe you haven’t heard of it
Veloren is great, there is also Mindustry and Shattered Pixel Dungeon to name a couple of high quality ones.
And Beyond All Reason if you like RTS games.
I really liked how Id used to release their old engines as open source, but of course once they got bought out all that stopped. The biggest problem for OSS games is with assets though. There are a few decent open source engines now for a lot of types of games, but it’s a lot harder to find decent looking assets to make games. I wonder if stuff like stable diffusion might help with that going forward.
You may have heard of them, but I love Shattered Pixel Dungeon and unCiv
I wish we had an opensource game store to sell or donate to opensource games.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Just wanted to shout out https://osgameclones.com/. It has a pretty decent list of them and source ports.
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Perhaps not Foss, but definitely free (beer) , endless sky, available on steam
Looks like Endless Sky is under GPL license, so definitely FOSS
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky
Regardless, it is well worth your time. Find the wormhole, steal alien tech, build a fleet, become invincible.
There: https://mander.xyz/post/11076441
There was a post recently about people’s favourite open source games and it’s been a nice repository of games for me :)