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B-side gaming is a community focused on alternative gaming. Like FOSS games, indie games, hobby games, homebrew. Additionally ROM Hacks, mods and game assets are allowed.

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The main focus of this community are Foss games, Homebrew games, demakes and indie or one-person hobby games. Demos or tech demos are also welcome.
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Free open-source games that bring back a forgotten classic: any favourites? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by playopenz@lemmy.world to c/Bside@fedia.io

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I love when fans keep an old game alive. OpenTTD, OpenRA, OpenMoHAA and friends are the obvious ones.

A recent one I came across is OpenZ, a free 3D fan remake of Z, the 1996 Bitmap Brothers RTS with no resources at all, just flags and territory. The Zod Engine did the 2D version years ago, so it's nice to see that odd little game still has people caring about it.

What other projects like this should more people know about?

(OpenZ is on itch, Game Jolt and GitHub, for anyone curious: https://github.com/playopenz/OpenZ)

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[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://panzermarshal.com/

Panzer General with lots of campaigns and quite deep gameplay, also runs in browser and on mobile

https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors

Master of Orion fan remake

https://xonotic.org/

Xonotic doesn't really count, its mechanics are purposefully unique to itself but it keeps the Darkplaces engine going, you can play lots of wayyyy old quake maps and it is fun as hell.

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