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by mdtrooper 217 days ago
I love this kind of free software (or open source) project.

It is a hard work for several years.

I think that the goal or finish of this work is the engine and a new (similar to old close game) set free assets (sprites, 3D models, maps, music...). And I know few projects in this point, OpenTTD and FreeDoom.

Are there more projects in this point?

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I've been enjoying and contributing patches to Beyond All Reason, which traces its inspiration back to the Total Annihilation real time strategy game.

It's truly incredible what a community can achieve over the course of ~20 years of open-source contributions.

BAR is a surprisingly good game
OpenRA (Command & Conquer), CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), ET: Legacy (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) and FreeCiv (Civilization) are the examples I have spent the most time playing. I know there are others targeting games like Age of Empires and Heroes of Might and Magic but I haven't played them and I'm not sure if they are as mature.
VCMI (the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 one) is amazing!
There's a whole lot! Here's a list I found: https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
Widelands is based on/inspired by Settlers II.