Freespace 2 is a commercial 3D space action game, created by Volition inc, whose engine has been made available as Free Software.
This has enabled several total conversions of the game, 3 in particular, to be made into standalone games.
First up there is Wing Commander Saga, (obviously) set in the ever-popular Wing Commander universe. There is no Linux version yet but it's in the works, so you'll need a Mac or Windows (or WINE?) to play it at the moment.
The Babylon Project is (obviously) set in the Babylon 5 universe. It seems to be Windows only for the moment. :-(
Finally, the recently announced BattleStar Galactica - Beyond the Red Line, set in (you guessed it) the Battlestar Galactica universe, which does have a Linux version (yay!) although you may need a few tricks to be able to play it in Linux.
There is another TC called Inferno that is fairly popular amongst FS2 fans, but it's existence is a little less clear. There is:
- Inferno Release 1 (old, abandoned, not a TC, but works with an available SCP patch)
- Inferno: Alliance (works, not sure where it fits in, not a TC yet...)
- Inferno: SCP (going to be a TC)
There may be more as currently, some projects are on "back burner" to try and get some of the other projects released. There is a Star Wars mod, as well as a few others, but it is unclear which ones are TC or not as it's all for internal access only. For those interested in looking further, check out HLP Forums > Hosted Projects.
This post was really just a fleshed out version of an email sent to me by Joshua Richards - thanks Joshua!
No music tip today. Not slept for a while and in no mood to choose anything with a pounding beat.
5 comments:
The Babylon 5 mod has a stickied forum post thread that goes into how to get it to run on 'nix. ttp://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40036.0.html
Also, yay for BB5! I need to try this one out...
Linky:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40036.0.html
Thanks for the tip! :-)
Unfortunately Freespace 2 is not free software/open-source. As this license
clearly shows.
Forbidding commercial use is incompatible with the free software definition, the debian free software guidelines and the open source definition.
Too bad. :|
It doesn't qualify as open source if you look strictly at the Open Source Initiative's definition, no. But seriously, what else could you possibly refer to it as?
"Shared source" ;-)
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