Why don't we make a FPS game with a single player campaign?

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

How hard can it be to make a open-source single player game with a good and long campaign? I'm a C/C++ programmer myself and my brother is good at gimping textures. We could use one of the existing game engines, like IoQuake3 (It is old, but I don't think we need fancy graphics), free and open-source tools like Blender 3D and Gimp, Code::Blocks for projects, etc.
It would probably take several months, or even years, but it would be a first such game ever made. Also, it would be fun (at least to me :)).

[TheFadedBrit]

I'm up for it if you need a story writer or voice actor (too a certain extent for acting)

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

Thanks :) Welcome to the team!

[TheFadedBrit]

Glad to be of service

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

I should make an IRC channel about this. Also, can I add u to skype contacts?

[user1397]

I could've sworn there already was an open-source FPS game? Maybe I'm going mad? I can't remember the name...

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

I could've sworn there already was an open-source FPS game? Maybe I'm going mad? I can't remember the name...

There are already several Open-Source games that work under linux, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Red Eclipse... But none of them has a singleplayer campagin :)

[mastablasta]

Yes what the hell happened to SP mode in FPS?!?! they are so hard to find even proprietary ones. while opensource they only make multiplayer ones. and these rarely have bots. World of padman had SP planned but then it was scrapped.

[user1397]

There are already several Open-Source games that work under linux, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Red Eclipse... But none of them has a singleplayer campagin :)
Ahhhh that's what it was. Well then given that, why not just take one of those games and make a single player campaign for it instead of starting from scratch?

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

Lets see....
None of them have enemy models, they do have models of bots, but meeting same 5 enemies through the hole game... really? Next, textures. It takes less textures to make a MP game than an SP one. 50 times more. Same for models. Next, maps. I do not think i need to explain this one. Now, if we get only 5% of the game already done and for that our game becomes a mod, really. Look, don't get me wrong, mods are not bad, but "This was the first linux open-source free game ever made" vs "This was first open-source single player mod that works under linux" is really different.
After all, we will be using ID Tech 3, game engine made by ID (actually IoQuake3, its successor based on Quake 3 Arena's open source release) and used in OpenArena and most others. It was made for multiplayer, but as it was proven in RtCW(Return to Castle Wolfenstein) and most of the Star Wars games, it can be used for singleplayer.

[user1397]

Lets see....
None of them have enemy models, they do have models of bots, but meeting same 5 enemies through the hole game... really? Next, textures. It takes less textures to make a MP game than an SP one. 50 times more. Same for models. Next, maps. I do not think i need to explain this one. Now, if we get only 5% of the game already done and for that our game becomes a mod, really. Look, don't get me wrong, mods are not bad, but "This was the first linux open-source free game ever made" vs "This was first open-source single player mod that works under linux" is really different.
After all, we will be using ID Tech 3, game engine made by ID (actually IoQuake3, its successor based on Quake 3 Arena's open source release) and used in OpenArena and most others. It was made for multiplayer, but as it was proven in RtCW(Return to Castle Wolfenstein) and most of the Star Wars games, it can be used for singleplayer.
I gotcha. Well you have me convinced sir! :)

[Sableyes]

Yes what the hell happened to SP mode in FPS?!?! they are so hard to find even proprietary ones.

Plenty of single player closed source FPS's on Linux. My first thought was to reply 'Prey, Half Life, Portal'. A look on Steam and we also have Deadcore, Dead Island, 4089, Metro, Serious Sam 3, Postal 2, Duke Nukem, Chivalry and more. Pretty sure they all have single player.

As for open source, yes, I can only think of 2 possible games. Was Wolfenstein a solo player open source game in the end? Also I vaguely remember a game called something like Saubertron? That I am certain was a single player open source FPS.

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

Free Open-Source Single-Player FPS

[Sableyes]

Yes, I know, free open-source. I was replying to the person whos post I quoted. :)


they are so hard to find even proprietary ones.

[Sableyes]

A quick google and I think this is the game I was thinking of for Open Source.

http://sauerbraten.org/

Sauerbraten. First one used to be in the repos back in Hardy Heron. Had a single player mode which I am certain was not just death match. You chose maps and fought monster hordes I think. Could not say if there was a plot though :(

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

Nope, you choose maps and fight monsters on them, very few maps and around 5-8 monsters i think. Also, no campagin, no plot.

[mastablasta]

Plenty of single player closed source FPS's on Linux. My first thought was to reply 'Prey, Half Life, Portal'. A look on Steam and we also have Deadcore, Dead Island, 4089, Metro, Serious Sam 3, Postal 2, Duke Nukem, Chivalry and more. Pretty sure they all have single player.

As for open source, yes, I can only think of 2 possible games. Was Wolfenstein a solo player open source game in the end? Also I vaguely remember a game called something like Saubertron? That I am certain was a single player open source FPS.

see only a couple of them. most up there are old and mostly they make multiplayer only now.

Wofenstein is not open source. though a cool opensource mod was made for coop and they released the multiplayer part as opensource (Enemy Territory). in any case the game dates way back to the start of the millennium. half life 2 is over 10 years old. so while there are a few recent games there aren't many of them.

[Stefan_Vukanovic]

https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-SP