What is Reddit's opinion of FreedroidRPG?

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I'm fond of ARPGs, and like <em>Flare: Empyrean Campaign</em>, <em>FreeDroidRPG</em> and Dink Smallwood (often called FreeDink, and with Debian package name freedink) in the ARPG genre.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a very good point-and-click, as the open-source version is the CD-ROM version. Also in Linux repos for ScummVM are Flight of the Amazon Queen, Lure of the Temptress, and Drascula. Readers should note these were all originally commercial games, as was Dink Smallwood, and were later open sourced in their entirety. We've seen some games open-sourced recently, and that's great, but nothing open-sourced with assets in the last five years that comes to mind.

Past that, there's the recent and tightly-coded Endless Sky, a game inspired by Escape Velocity Nova.

> Games with "cute", recognisable characters

Isn't there a Tux game for almost every genre? :-P

There is even some Fallout clone :-P (it says Diablo but last time i checked it, it reminded me more of Fallout)

What hardware exactly? Because some of what I might suggest would require certain versions of OpenGL. A laptop from 2010-2011 might only have OpenGL 2.1, but a desktop would have 3.0.

glxinfo to get your OpenGL information.

I like many genres, but one more-casual, relaxing, pausable genre of my preference are ARPGs. <em>Flare: Empyrean Campaign</em> is a demo campaign for the Flare engine, with just enough story to be complete and self-contained, and can last 20 hours if you're on the completist side.

Also isometric, but far less Diablo-inspired, is the open-source <em>FreedroidRPG</em>. Good tutorial, decent storyline, an array of locations to explore without being so large that you won't finish, and good for some mindless grinding. Weaknesses include disappointing array of equipment, less-obvious requirements to advance the story sometimes, and particularly an unexpected, weirdly-scaled endgame.

> Happens in multiple browsers. Microsoft Explorer has a revocation error and Chrome has a privacy error. I can't even "continue anyway."

That suggests it's not a connection or Ethernet error, but a certificate or security error.

Can you connect to plain HTTP sites like http://www.freedroid.org/? (That's the first non-encrypted site I could find. I didn't realize how threatened they've gotten!)

What is the error message exactly? I would have asked about the date and time if you hadn't already checked.

• Third person actioners of various types. Japanese developers make a large percentage of these, and they haven't caught up with Linux as a target platform yet.
• ARPGs.

My current dream request title is NieR: Automata, which happens to fall into those categories. Avoiding spoilers for this game is getting harder, incidentally.

I think the public game engines have had less support for these genres than some other genres, which contributes to a shortage. Does anyone know of a third-person (3D) game that's been built on id Tech 3, id Tech 4, or any other open-source engine? I guess Sonic Robo Blast 2 qualifies, and ironically I happen to have been in that code recently, but I can't think of anything else. I can think of two open isometric ARPG engines, though: <em>FreedroidRPG</em> and <em>Flare</em>.

No problem. If you want to play it again without the hassle of emulation or finding the hardware, Freedroid is a pretty good clone (go to downloads and get Freedroid Classic). Enjoy (and don't forget to mark as solved). :)

• Endless Sky, in repos and also on Steam.
• Flare demo campaign &quot;Empyrean Campaign&quot; is around 15 hours of content.
• <em>FreedroidRPG</em>
• Free games on Steam, GOG, Humble, and Itch.io

Open-source: <em>Flare: Empyrian Campaign</em> (ARPG), Beneath a Steel Sky (point and click), Endless Sky (top-down space), <em>FreeDroidRPG</em> (ARPG).

On Steam, Stardew Valley, Factorio (probably with the T400), Terraria. I just checked the System Requirements for some other top titles and many of them need a discrete GPU.

Back in the day, when I had a Commodore 64, I fell in love with a game called Paradroid. There is a Windows remake that is remarkably faithful to the original called FreedroidClassic. Download links are at the bottom of the page.

Some free RPG I know ShadowFlare episode one, a diablo-like game, haven't play much

FreeDroidRPG, also a diablo like game, originally made for Linux which explain why you are a penguin, now also available on windows. A good game with multiple ending, I beat it once

But it wouldn't be perceived that way if it was the same game without the penguin and a slightly different name, correct?

That's why I'm against cutesy names and other callbacks to GNU, etc. SuperTuxKart and <em>FreedroidRPG</em> are relatively ambitious games in their own right, but end up coming off like a cheap clone of Windows Solitaire or some game bundled with OS/2, because they explicitly incorporate penguins.

• <em>Flare: Empyrean Campaign</em> which is is an almost slavishly Diablo-like demo campaign for the Flare open-source engine but easily good for a dozen hours of gameplay, if not a particularly deep plot.
• <em>FreedroidRPG</em>, another open-source ARPG, whose plot isn't too serious. Notable extensive tutorial, but I found the endgame to be disappointing. Has its own distinct flavor entirely different from Diablo. Either this engine or Flare can be used to build your own ARPGs.
• <em>Dink Smallwood</em>: a 1998 indie ARPG that was released to open-source many years ago. Not too serious at all. Made just after Diablo innovated the ARPG, but feels more like earlier games in atmosphere.

LOL :-D
When I read "extremely old" I was thinking pre-Zelda era, already scrolling through abandonia... There was a "bots" with ASCII graphics in those days...

Anyway, you might think of Freedroid?

Mixed DPI is harder than just HiDPI. However, people don't want to hear that it's simpler if they run one display.

Generally you want to set the game for the resolution you want, not the window manager or DE. For instance, the open-source <em>FreeDroidRPG</em> has resolution selection in its menu. Playing at UHD gives a much larger field of view than FHD.

> Not to mention most FOSS games seem to avoid the RPG genre.

It's hard to generalize. I guess that might be true, though. <em>FreedroidRPG</em> is an isometric ARPG that's technically pretty competent and complete-able, even if the game story is pretty odd and the balance questionable at the end. <em>Dink Smallwood</em> is a small, basic ARPG, but it was originally a commercial title in 1996.

Endless Sky (/r/Endless_Sky) is a space game with story, but I understand that only one of the story narratives is complete so far -- the game is still under development. <em>FreedroidRPG</em> has a story, but it's short and sparse by modern standards and I found it rather unbalanced. (Balance is one of the most difficult parts of game development, though.)

I bet these and many other open-source games would welcome contributors who want to expand the narratives or work on anything else in the games.

All of the ScummVM games are story-based point-and-click. I recommend Beneath a Steel Sky, but there are several more that are open-sourced and in Debian/Linux repos.

You should also inquire in /r/opensourcegames and /r/adventuregames.

Nox Imperii looks intriguing. FreedroidRPG has gameplay very similar to Diablo, a decent tutorial, and a short but complete campaign that doesn't take itself too seriously.

A yellow robot taking over other robots, sounds a lot like the game FreedroidRPG which itself is a remake of an old classic Paradroid.

I don't know about it being on PS2 though. Maybe it is a different remake of Paradroid.