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Summoning Wars – role-playing game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Summoning Wars is a free and open source, network-based, role-playing game with a point-and-click fight system.

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Game Engines

Bladecoder Adventure Engine – create interactive graphic adventures

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Bladecoder Adventure Engine is a set of tools to create interactive graphic adventures (classical point and click games).

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Castle Game Engine

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Castle Game Engine (previously known as Kambi) is an open-source engine that is especially oriented towards working with VRML models.

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DarkPlaces – Quake modification

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

DarkPlaces is a gameplay modification and a source port engine based on the computer game Quake.

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Delta3D – open source application engine

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Delta3D is a fully-featured game engine appropriate for a wide variety of uses including training, education, visualization, and entertainment.

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Doomsday Engine – Doom / Heretic / Hexen port with enhanced graphics

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Doomsday Engine is an enhanced Doom source port, based on the source code of id Software’s Doom and Raven Software’s Heretic and Hexen.

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FIFE – game engine

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FIFE is the Flexible Isometric Free Engine (FIFE). The aim of the FIFE project is to create a cross platform 2D game creation framework.

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GemRB – open source clone of Infinity Engine

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine, written to support pseudo-3D role playing games.

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Irrlicht Engine – realtime 3D engine

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Irrlicht Engine is a high performance open source and cross platform 3D engine for creating realtime 3D applications.

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Sauerbraten – free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Sauerbraten (Cube 2) engine is an advanced and complete open source engine, with many novel features unavailable elsewhere.

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ScummVM – supports many adventure games

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.

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Shooter Games

Word War vi – side-scrolling shoot ’em up ’80s style arcade game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Word War vi is a retro-styled side scrolling shoot’em up ’80s style arcade game.

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Tank Island – 2D top down shooter game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Tank Island is a 2D top down shooter game that was created with Ruby. It uses the Gosu game development library.

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Solar Wolf – action/arcade game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Solarwolf is an action/arcade game written entirely in Python, featuring attractive graphics and cool music. It is is originally based on the SolarFox game.

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Shooter Games

SpeedLazer – side-scrolling shooter / shmup

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

SpeedLazer is a side scrolling shooter (SHMUP). It’s made with Crafty.js and making use of the HTML5 Gamepad API.

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Shooter Games

rRootage – free abstract shooter game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

rRootage is an arcade-style vertical shooting game, with music to match. You must avoid the barrage of bullets and destroy the enemy’s huge battleships.

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OpenLieroX – addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

OpenLieroX is a real-time addictive Worms shoot-em-up clone with network support. Your character is a worm (or similar) and you have to shoot other worms.

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Shooter Games

Orbital Eunuchs Sniper

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Orbital Eunuchs Sniper is an addictive overhead shooting game. It is a simple game in which the player must control an orbital laser.

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Shooter Games

Kulic – action packed game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Kulic is a computer game where the only goal is to kill as many enemies as possible. It is a very dynamic game packed full of enemies.

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Shooter Games

F.L.A.W – top-down wizard battle game

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

F.L.A.W. is a small multiplayer action game. It can be played by up to 5 players on a single computer.

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