I've been playing around, on & off, with the offspring of Nexuiz - Xonotic - for some years now. I originally found it on the Windows site 'PortableApps.com', and soon discovered that the Wndows build would run, more or less issue-free, under the then-current WINE (this was when WINE was still in the 3-series).
It didn't take me long to discover the main Xonotic site, and found that it was available in Linux-native builds, too. These lent themselves beautifully to being re-packaged in Puppy-portable format, so that's what I did. They were also a LOT more stable.
Browsing through the stuff on SourceForge the other night, I discovered the original Linux builds of Nexuiz.....Xonotic's 'parent'. I thought I'd take a look at these, more out of curiosity than owt else.....to see how the thing had evolved over the intervening 20 years!
For game coding from 2005, the premise behind Nexuiz - that of single- or multi-player FPS 'arena' shooting, either by yourself against a selection of 'gamebots', or in a team playing against other teams - was a revelation. Xonotic has taken the original concept, continued it and added a ton of polish.....but it hasn't discarded one iota of the original's raw energy.
The available selection of demos in the original, recorded via the built-in screen-capture tool, are quite breath-taking. Lee Vermeulen and his company, Alientrap, produced a flagship game for relatively early Linux, one which has stood the test of time.
I'm no 'gamer'. I'll spend the odd half-hour sampling stuff like this if I'm really bored, but I generally have better things to be getting on with.
FPS "shoot-em-ups" appeal to me. Many of you have seen my desktops, and know how 'busy' I like them. My tastes in games are the same; I would far sooner have just 2 or 3 games like this than I would an entire Steam library of polished AAA+ titles, but.....that's just me.
A mate who used to spend hours & hours with Doom & Quake got me into this stuff back in the late 90s.....that, and things like the original 'Driver'. I've had a passing interest ever since.
If anyone's interested, you can find the Nexuiz files at SourceForge, here:-
sourceforge.net
Enjoy!
Mike.
It didn't take me long to discover the main Xonotic site, and found that it was available in Linux-native builds, too. These lent themselves beautifully to being re-packaged in Puppy-portable format, so that's what I did. They were also a LOT more stable.
Browsing through the stuff on SourceForge the other night, I discovered the original Linux builds of Nexuiz.....Xonotic's 'parent'. I thought I'd take a look at these, more out of curiosity than owt else.....to see how the thing had evolved over the intervening 20 years!
For game coding from 2005, the premise behind Nexuiz - that of single- or multi-player FPS 'arena' shooting, either by yourself against a selection of 'gamebots', or in a team playing against other teams - was a revelation. Xonotic has taken the original concept, continued it and added a ton of polish.....but it hasn't discarded one iota of the original's raw energy.
The available selection of demos in the original, recorded via the built-in screen-capture tool, are quite breath-taking. Lee Vermeulen and his company, Alientrap, produced a flagship game for relatively early Linux, one which has stood the test of time.
I'm no 'gamer'. I'll spend the odd half-hour sampling stuff like this if I'm really bored, but I generally have better things to be getting on with.
FPS "shoot-em-ups" appeal to me. Many of you have seen my desktops, and know how 'busy' I like them. My tastes in games are the same; I would far sooner have just 2 or 3 games like this than I would an entire Steam library of polished AAA+ titles, but.....that's just me.
A mate who used to spend hours & hours with Doom & Quake got me into this stuff back in the late 90s.....that, and things like the original 'Driver'. I've had a passing interest ever since.
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If anyone's interested, you can find the Nexuiz files at SourceForge, here:-
Nexuiz
Download Nexuiz for free. Nexuiz is a multiplayer first-person shooter. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2).
sourceforge.net
Enjoy!
Mike.
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