Open source games are so refreshing. They focus on gameplay much more than anything else
it also blows my mind how easy they are to distribute in linux.
Somebody should make a campaign where you play as the Soviets and destroy NATO. :)
I loved CnC Generals (of course I played as China), hope this will ported to debian-like systems.
Not sure about Debian, but it’s the
openrapackage on Arch LinuxEdit: They have instructions for all the different distros at https://openra.net/download/
I prefer MX Linux to Arch, but anyway, thanks Comrade!
I was obsessed with Red Alert 2 and went out and bought CnC Generals the day it came out, came home excited to play and my cheap ass family computer couldn’t run it and I never got to play it.
Sorry to hear that, I can recommend Generals wholeheartedly. But you probably need Windows 7 to run it, unfortunately.
@ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net You can install GenPatcher on Windows to give Generals a more modern experience similar to the spirit of OpenRA, but it seems people are having difficulty running Generals with GenPatcher through wine/proton on Linux. You would probably need to virtualize Windows and run the game that way. If you want to run Generals alone, Lutris should have some scripts.
I’m not sure if any of these links will work for you:
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru_202103
- https://archive.org/details/EA_Command_And_Conquer_Generals_Deluxe_Edition_w_Zero_Hour_Expansion_Windows_200
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru
- https://archive.org/details/CommandConquerGeneralsUSA
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru_202109
- https://archive.org/details/generalscd-2-pc
- https://archive.org/details/c-cgenzhcd-2-pc
- https://archive.org/details/Nova_CandCGeneralsUSA
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-zero-hour-2003-ea-games-2-cd-set
To look for more, you can go here.
Great resources, thank you Comrade!
I like to play as GLA, they have such a great postal service. Also the GLA has the best faction soundtrack
That’s right, they are nice to play, but do not have the best TANKS, as China :)
I don’t think you have to wait - there are AppImages, Flatpaks, and even Deb’s for Ubuntu available. Surely one of those will work on your Debian system?
Oh I will try when I get some spare time to enjoy the game, thank you.
apt install openra
On my MX Linux, package not found; maybe the command works on Ubuntu or it needs some repositories to enable first.
You can go the snap route too, if you’re into that:
https://snapcraft.io/install/openra/debian
Enable snapd
On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install core
Install OpenRA
To install OpenRA, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install openra
Thank you Comrade!
I fucking love the FOSS community.
I think learning from these guys what it actually means to own something was likely the gateway that got me interested in the same values that opened me up to communism.
Yea right? It is such a collectivistic effort but for some reason the community is full of libertarians and such lol.
foss makes me hopeful for the future of computing, i literally just put a single command on the terminal and i can already play it.
What other games? I only see RA
The OpenRA Games (aka Mods)
Games built using the OpenRA engine are known as “mods”. The OpenRA development team maintain the three official mods that can be downloaded from this website, but many more are developed and maintained by the OpenRA community.
Tiberian Dawn
An alliance of nations fights to protect Europe and northern Africa from a mysterious terrorist organization and the valuable but toxic alien mineral, Tiberium, that is slowly spreading over the world.
The Tiberian Dawn mod focuses on fast and fluid play, taking heavy influences from modern RTS games with features like multiple-queue production.
Red Alert
In a world where Hitler was assassinated and the Third Reich never existed, the Soviet Union seeks power over all of Europe. Allied against this Evil Empire, the free world faces a Cold War turned red hot.
The Red Alert mod focuses on strategy, providing a range of units and tactics to conquer the land, sea, and air.
Dune 2000
Three great houses fight for the precious spice melange. He who controls the spice controls the universe! Establish a foothold on the desert planet Arrakis, where your biggest threat is the environment.
The Dune 2000 mod currently focuses on providing an experience that is authentic to the original game.
Tiberian Sun
The next major goal for OpenRA is to support the second generation of Command & Conquer games, starting with Tiberian Sun.
The game engine features to support Tiberian Sun are still in development. The mod is not included with the OpenRA installer, but the source code is available in our GitHub repository. Please note that we do not provide support for incomplete development builds.
Building Custom Mods
Find community mods on ModDB
OpenRA is designed as a general purpose RTS game engine with strong modding support. The OpenRA Mod SDK provides tools to develop and release your own projects. Each new OpenRA release brings many improvements and fixes created for, and by, the modding community. A collection of community-built mods and games can be found on OpenRA’s ModDB page.
In a world where Hitler was assassinated and the Third Reich never existed, the Soviet Union seeks power over all of Europe. Allied against this Evil Empire, the free world faces a Cold War turned red hot.
😐
I mean, that’s the game for you. It’s over the top anti-soviet chauvinism in such a theatrical way that it loops back around to being hilarious
Red Alert 2 introduced the soviet union to my child brain who barely knew English. Coming from a Muslim country, I already knew the allies were bad so 10 year old me assumed the soviet union are the good guys in the red alert universe. It’s not all bad haha. Looking back at the red alert cut scenes, they really did Stalin dirty
Being open source, we can write our own mods, correct? (not that I have the skills…)
yep
So a mod could be written with an anti-colonial, anti-imperial atmosphere
The world is your oyster. You can make all sorts of mods with any story and atmosphere.
It sounds like you may be interested in potentially making a mod (or you are just interested in someone else making one, in which case the following resources should be helpful to such a person). You will probably need to learn C#, PowerShell, shell, etc. and work with this SDK:
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRAModSDK
You can look at community mods here to find examples to learn from and see what is possible:
https://www.moddb.com/games/openra/mods
You can click on one of the mods and potentially find their own git repository, such as this one: OpenE2140
This mod used Lua as well: Generals Alpha
To prove my point that you can make a mod with your own story and atmosphere, this mod is a (literal) bug swarm strategy game: OpenSA
For the mod itself, you will be mostly programming in C# and sometimes another language if you decide to use one (it seems with this particular engine, modders tend to either use just C# or C# and Lua). Shell, make, and other languages are typically used for the packaging and installation/generation/compilation/etc. scripts/tools of the mod.
I’d like to see more, but the only ones that I know of are red eclipse (kind of like halo), 0AD (kind of like age of empires), and minetest (Minecraft but really made so that each server can have any number of ridiculous difference in gameplay because of mods).
Oh, OK. So this is more like the “potential “for more games to be created on a sort of platform. I was just expecting to see a list. Thanks for clarifying. 
No, there is a list: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2278718
This is just an open source engine for the classic Command & Conquer games. You need to supply discs/isos to be able to play the games fully–similar to open source ports like GZDoom/PrBoom for Doom/Quake/etc. and OpenMW for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Thanks!
Here’s a start:
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games
- https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
- https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
- https://github.com/leereilly/games
- Updated Version: https://github.com/Yaksinikos/games
I mentioned some games on Lemmygrad a few months ago:
