Unvanquished Open-Source Game Sees Its First Alpha Release In Nearly Three Years

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unvanquished Open-Source Game Sees Its First Alpha Release In Nearly Three Years

Unvanquished had been easily one of the most promising open-source games several years back with decent in-game visuals/art, a continually improving "Daemon" engine that was a distant mod of ioquake3 while leveraging ETXReaL components and more, and all-around a well-organized, advancing open-source game project. Their monthly alpha releases stopped almost three years ago while today that's changed just ahead of Christmas...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unvanquished-Alpha-51-Released

[Dr. Righteous]

Unfortunately UNVANQUISHED is shaping up to be a continuous work in progress. When development takes this long it risks becoming dated before it it is ever released.

[computerquip]

You realize you can play it now right?

[Dr. Righteous]

You realize you can play it now right?

Indeed yes but an alpha version. An incomplete game.
I don't want to be critical but there are many pitfalls on the way to a complete game. The longer it take, the larger the pits grow.
Personally I very much admire developers and programmers like this. I don't have what it takes personally. Life always interferes and dashes my efforts on weighty projects. Such a singular focus I cannot seem to afford.

[computerquip]

Indeed yes but an alpha version. An incomplete game.
I don't want to be critical but there are many pitfalls on the way to a complete game. The longer it take, the larger the pits grow.
Personally I very much admire developers and programmers like this. I don't have what it takes personally. Life always interferes and dashes my efforts on weighty projects. Such a singular focus I cannot seem to afford.

It's not an incomplete game. I played Tremulous for years. The assets are in alpha, the gameplay itself is fine.

[willmore]

It's not an incomplete game. I played Tremulous for years. The assets are in alpha, the gameplay itself is fine.

Trumulous's gameplay was fine, but Unvanquished changed a lot of that in the name of 'balance' and 'pacing' which resulted in a less than playable game. Unless that's been fixed--but the devs seemed to be convinced to go their own path.