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Are there any FOSS / open source e-sports games you're excited about? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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It occurred to me that I don't know any FOSS e-sport games off the top of my head and I don't know why. I looked it up and it doesn't seem like there are many tournaments around and I got to thinking about what would make a good FOSS e-sport and I don't know that I have a really clear idea of it. It's been on my mind a lot though so I wanted to see what you all think about it.

What FOSS e-sports do you like? What do you wish existed that doesn't? Do you think there should be FOSS e-sports? Do you think they'll never work, never be sustainable, or not be good? Does the concept of monetized tournaments go against the very ethos of free software?

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Chess. one of the biggest servers, lichess.org is open source. They have hosted and broadcasted tournaments before.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, for some reason I don't think of chess as an e-sport but of course it is. That's a good one.

[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Beyond All Reason is open source.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

woah, that is awesome ty. What a blast from the past. I played a ton of Total Annihilation and SupCom when they came out but I haven't thought about them in years.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not properly FOSS game but there a super geeky community that tries to improve the game, I talk about Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy game. Today if you need to play this game online you'll need openJK forks like TaystJK.

Here is a guide for playing the game.

For owning the game, I'm sure you'll find ways and oh I would not advise you to find base assets from true sailors website no.

If anyone here reading this would play jka I would be glad playing too ^^

[–] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if it exists, but there might be some in OpenRA.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think generally when something like a paid fighting game makes a large tournament, they build up the appeal by spending a lot of money (eg, large displays, big venue, etc). All in the hope of driving more money spent on the game itself, not just tickets to watch the show (which will often be largely online)

If no one is paid to spread appeal, it’s not going to be big. We hate ads and marketers, but in their absence we see what little happens just from the odd printed flyer.