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This is just amazing. And what is more suprising is that Doom 1 and 2 are still thriving after >20 years. If you download zandronum you will learn that there are still people playing it online. of course those are some mods, but still very much resembling the original atmosphere and graphics of doom 1 and 2.

Edit: of course this probably would be different if the doom source code wasn't released at some point of time...

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> still very much resembling the original atmosphere and graphics of doom 1 and 2.

If you haven't already, you should check out Brutal Doom[0]. It improves upon the graphics and gameplay a lot -- but still manages to keep much of the original atmosphere

[0]: http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom

don't forget the soundtrack.

Ah, I never could get that to work with zandronum :/

Of course I know it. The soudtrack is simply amazing. What I dodn't know until now is that there is quite a lot of doom covers on youtube!

Yet for some reason extremely few games have followed id's example. Besides Duke 3d, what other games ever saw source release?

The only one off the top of my head is Serious Sam: https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...

NOLF: https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever

That's really cool. Kotaku ran an article <a year ago about the licensing issues around No One Lives Forever and how it would probably never make it to Steam; I'm surprised they never mentioned that the source code has been available for 4 years, buildable by anyone.

I guess part of the problem is that most producers don't want to open-source a game until it's stopped making significant money, and most games are largely forgotten by that time, so there's less incentive to bother in the first place, and (perhaps more importantly) no press when it does happen. (That Wikipedia article is surprisingly long, but I haven't heard of most of the entries.)

id software followed up with lots. quake and enemy territory were amazing.

we played hours and hours every week of enemy territory in the office in 2007-2009

... on Linux (and the occasional Windows and Mac in the same server) no less!

Marathon: http://infinitysource.bungie.org/

SoftDorothy: https://github.com/softdorothy

I wish there were more.

Edit:

Abuse: http://abuse.zoy.org/

It was so rare back in the day that I vividly remember games that did actually go open source.

Oh, Abuse. I loved this game. It was also my first encounter with Lisp, many years before I learned how it's called and what it is.

FreeSpace 2 -- http://scp.indiegames.us/. It got seriously remastered thanks to that.

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