Engines

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » September 6th, 2007, 2:06 am

What sort of mod-friendly (or designed specifically for mods) engines are you aware of? Apart from Roguelikes, which could have a category all their own. I'm just thinking to compile a list for anyone who might have an idea that won't quite work with the Wesnoth engine.

eyu100 · Post by **eyu100** » September 6th, 2007, 2:17 am

For one moment, I thought that you meant moderator-friendly

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Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » September 6th, 2007, 2:31 am

No, I mean more like Hero of Allacrost or ToME.

I'm just not as well versed in the Open Source market to know what's out there, and I suspect a lot of people are the same way.

Weeksy · Post by **Weeksy** » September 6th, 2007, 4:34 am

I'd check out Gusanos, it's a Liero clone that has some heavy moddability. You can look around the internet for some mods, I personally like the Doom weaponset, and some of the maps that come with that.

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » September 6th, 2007, 4:58 am

So it's an FPS engine?

Weeksy · Post by **Weeksy** » September 6th, 2007, 5:24 am

no... It's a game itself, and comes with the basic setup wich is a lot like Liero, the game it started as a clone of (Basically 2d quake with worms, quite fun), but it's got a nice system of layering objects, defining controls within some objects, and all sorts of cool possibilities using the LUA language as well as its own basic, WML-like place to do more simple object attributes.

Post by **Iris** » September 6th, 2007, 2:38 pm

Darn, I'm developing one for side-scroller platformer games. It is currently frozen, though, for I am switching from Allegro *back* to SDL. Doesn't make a playable game anyway (yet).

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » September 7th, 2007, 2:09 am

Some of the iD Software engines are GPLed and those games were reasonably mod-friendly. Of course the game content is closed-content, but there are some open-content projects using the engines, like OpenArena.