Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment 152
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An anonymous reader writes "REMIX THIS GAME is an experimental game design contest where participants can re-mix and re-cycle my free-software self-published PC game, XONG. XONG is available under permissive licenses allowing remixes and derivative works of the code, graphics, sound effects, and music—even for commercial use. The source code license is the GNU GPL Version 3, and the media is covered by the Creative Commons BY-SA license. No special software or programming experience are needed—XONG has been packaged up so that you can just download the game and edit the graphics/code/music/sounds in place, and re-start the game to see your changes. Plus, it is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, so you can remix it on whichever OS you use, using whatever programs you like."
Re:How is this different from the mod scene? (Score:5, Funny)
Is it on slashdot because it is news, or is it news because it's on slashdot?
This discussion is now about philosophy.
Re:"Permissive" license (Score:4, Funny)
Completely agree. I was turned off when I saw it was CC BY-SA and GPLv3'd. Hate both licenses. Hate.
Re:"Permissive" license (Score:1, Funny)
That's only because you hate freedom [gnu.org].
Re:Cool (Score:3, Funny)
Suggestions for XONG remixers (Score:5, Funny)
This game at first glance appears to be a take on an early roguetype; however in truth it's less adventureish, gear-based or as rich with chance taking. It's quirky though:
You control a vulnerable white square attempting to infiltrate a semi-randomly generated abstract color field environment infested with robots. You are armed with a paint-absorbent hockey puck that can pick up color and transfer it to other objects. If you lose your puck, you have to find another; these are scattered through the environment and look like the letter P. There are no hit points; any hit kills you, and completely ends your game. You cannot shoot enemies; instead you drop direction-changing arrows called "chevrons" to guide them to their doom in one of XONG's many black holes. But your puck will also follow the arrows, so be careful where you fire; otherwise you'll lose it down a black hole.
I can imagine any number of possibilities for this game so here are my suggestions...
You could attach a consistently looping 8-bit track, and perhaps add a purple 'M' character that changes said track between a selection of five inbetween your fight for survival. XONG: SONG Edition.
You could append a boss enemy with a brown capital 'K' - this will spawn periodically in the game to increase the challenge difficulty. However you can destroy him by luring him to the red 'M' which insta-deaths the K. XONG: KONG Edition.
You could attach an RPG element with a short text preamble which says you're a stoner who's attempting to work his way up the hockey league and must find a bong in under 200 move intervals to survive - upon 10,000 moves (progressive difficulty) and then you win hockey stardom...it could be called XONG: BONG Hockey Master Edition.
Re:How is this different from the mod scene? (Score:4, Funny)
Hitler also had a philosophy.
Check and mate.
Re:How is this different from the mod scene? (Score:5, Funny)
Check and mate.
Well, this match is over. God wins!
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
have you seen it running?
man, that game is operating in like 7-dimensions - yet without 'height', concurrently in multiple parallel-universes - with grandfather paradox feedback - before, after and even "word doesn't yet exist" the original causation event. my friend played a full game (no trainer) the other week, he finished 106 years ago with a top score of "japan"
Re:How is this different from the mod scene? (Score:4, Funny)
It is different because the mod scene generally works on games that are good and that people care about.
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, maybe he should make the code available to the whole world and invite people to change the graphics and sounds.
Come to think of it, I think I remember seeing a story not too long ago about something like that...
Best! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:"Permissive" license (Score:1, Funny)
No, because I hate being told that if I make a modification to the code, I have to not only contribute it back, but maintain the updates and the original code for x amount of years.
"freely ye have received, freely give"
why do you hate jesus?