Tremulous: The best free software game ever?

By libervisco on 13 Jul 2006

Tremulous: The best free software game ever? - Linux and open source software lag behind the proprietary market in the number and quality of available video games, especially in the realm of first-person shooters (FPS), a genre dominated by the likes of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, and Halo. Here, Linux is an afterthought, if not ignored completely. Tremulous, a mixture of FPS and RTS (real-time strategy) written by Tim Angus, is an exception to that rule. [GNUs]

I've tried Tremulous a bit last night before going to sleep and I gotta say it does look like a great game, definitely one of the best in its genre. The fact that it's on a Quake 3 engine (which worked fine on my and even older hardware, and that's an onboard graphics chip) made Tremulous playable on my computer as well (of course with DRI enabled, which I certainly welcome.

I guess I'll be playing this for a change on weekends now, rather than Battle for Wesnoth.

Cheers!
Daniel

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Comments

The problem with Tremulus is

by dylunio | Fri, 2006-07-14 14:28

The problem with Tremulus is that it isn't all Free - there is some non-free data on the download (maps etc.).

Sorry to spoil the party...

dylunio

free data files?

by libervisco | Fri, 2006-07-14 15:20

Yeah I saw that yesterday as well, just after writing the above entry. What a pitty.

I suppose though that there may be a free alternative for these data files somewhere and a way to replace the current ones with that.

Anyone knows of a Quake 3 engine based game with truly Free data files?

Thanks

re:

by Whistler | Sun, 2006-07-16 09:02

according to the COPYING file there are only some texture files which are non-free, most of the data are still under the CreativeCommons license. So it would be nice of them to clearly mark which are the non-free files, I don't think it will be very difficult to replace them with some other pictures

creativecommons, eh ? That

by free-zombie | Sun, 2006-07-16 22:59

creativecommons, eh ? That isn't dfsg-free, but not bad at all.

It all depends on which

by libervisco | Mon, 2006-07-17 01:02

It all depends on which creative commons license it is.

Just saying creative commons is almost like saying nothing as there are many *different* CC licenses of which some as applied to software are proprietary.