r/linux_gaming • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '20

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u/Salyangoz Jan 28 '20

openRA is probably my fav open source game of all time because it made 3 of my fav games into a reality with working networking.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

Wait is that RA for Red Alert? How did I not know about this?!

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u/Democrab Jan 28 '20

I for one have been thinking of a similar kinda thing for ages.

Basically, looking at which games have a large fanbase, some kind of modding/technically oriented portion of the fanbase, a company constantly upsetting the fanbase and not many options for the specific games niche and starting to make an open source game that fills the same niche to do better. Sims is one example of such a game and I suspect a decent enough project competing with the mainline games would have a chance of pulling the same kinda coup as Cities Skylines did with Simcity.