"Adults Only" OpenArena Now Playable On Raspberry Pi 65
hypnosec writes "The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released OpenArena – a multiplayer first person shooter game based on Quake III — for the Raspberry Pi. Available as a free download, the game has been rated 'Adults Only' because of the blood and guns. The open-source game is powered by the 'ioquake3' fork of the engine that Quake III runs on id's Tech 3 engine. Modifications have been made to the gameplay by removing the copyrighted material and adding new free content."
Just talking about Quake Lan Parties (Score:3)
WAs rememinicing about Quake Lan parties ~15 years ago. With Thin Net running aroung the house... And being between beat over and over by a 5 yr on a 486dx33!
Now in my rocker, I can look forward to I can look forward to the same on a Raspberry PI and connected to big screen.
More life changes, the more it stays the same.
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Re:Just talking about Quake Lan Parties (Score:5, Informative)
Dude, you are too young for a rocker! Get yourself a 486dx66 and a gaming chair and beat the crap out of your 20 year old!
There was no such thing as a 486dx66. However, there was something called a 486 DX2 66.
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Was working out of a guy's home mid '90s. We went to get a new computer, a Pentium Pro . He says, "You should probably get something to stress test it." So we got Duke Nukem and Quake.
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Troll. Quake can't run on a 486 33MHz system, even with 32MB of RAM and a GLQuake capable GPU.
I tried. The GPU alone won't work with anything less than a 66MHz 486.
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Furthermore, the mentioned 486 33MHz can also run it. [youtube.com]
Re:Just talking about Quake Lan Parties (Score:4, Interesting)
Quake ruled. The doof who invented it didn't know what he had, with his incomprehensible hatred of the two best features: rocket jumping, which fell out naturally from the well-defined physics, and the grappling hook, the single-most popular mod, included in many other popular mods like capture the flag.
All soul was lost with Quake II, where they got rid of hateful rocket jumping, then added a hack to put it back in by popular demand. And we won't even get into the silly mechanical grappling hook.
Then came Quake 3 with jump pads. Sigh.
No soul. Even the grenade launcher went from a cool, red-light thing bouncing all over the place to a semi-sticky glowing 2-bounce sweet potato "so people could place it more easily".
No soul. Go watch Quake Done Quicker on YouTube for some groovy soul apparently forever past in history :(
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I thought it was generally agreed (by whom I'm not sure, let's just say public opinion) that Quake 3 is the purest, most distilled deathmatch FPS to the point where it is the quintessential game to use when explaining what deathmatch is all about. Now I didn't play it much online as dialup was a shocking way to play a multiplayer FPS and even if I could, I probably would have sucked anyway. But it still was incredibly popular and even played without any mods it has a simplicity and charm that I think is rat
Re:Porn, always the first to embrace new technolog (Score:5, Funny)
Did you read anything except the headline? And I thought RTFA was a bad trend...
Re:Porn, always the first to embrace new technolog (Score:5, Funny)
I not only don't RTFA, I don't RTFS. I barely RTFH.
I'll be able to infer all that from the other posts.
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There's no porn in it, it's just regular Open Arena. The "adult" part is just due to gore.
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There's no porn in it, it's just regular Open Arena. The "adult" part is just due to gore.
Clearly you haven't found all the easter eggs yet!
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There's no sex in your violence?
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Re:Porn, always the first to embrace new technolog (Score:5, Insightful)
Well that's the problem with these newfangled ratings. Everyone knows ripping bodies to shreds while spewing blood all over the walls is OK, but $deity forbid you should show a nipple. Unless it's a male nipple; that's fine.
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Unless it's a male nipple; that's fine.
Unless the male nipples light up like runway lights [wikipedia.org]. That might not be fine.
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GPL your levels! (Score:5, Interesting)
Openarena is an excellent project that has matured over years, and has been my own benchmark of how Linux has improved. I have played it small window on a sis, on a early x800 with missing features, through various i815, i915, G45, HD4000 and through to full speed on my HD4000 go integrated graphics.
I am not sure why anyone here object to it being labelled *Adult content* its blood; with bikini chicks http://images.wikia.com/openarena/images/b/bb/AngelyssDark.png [wikia.com] [or overly muscular gargoyles if you prefer] and unshakably is so and that is great. For others there is "world of padman" http://worldofpadman.net/website/ [worldofpadman.net] which has some beautiful content...if not the sex and violence.
Seriously though GPL your levels.
Re:GPL your levels! (Score:5, Interesting)
OpenArena is fun and may be an excellent project to play, but the OpenArena people themselves are terrible to work with.
I used to maintain the FreeBSD port for OpenArena. Used to. Why used to? Cause they were the *worst* group of open-source software people I've ever dealt with. When another open-source OS asks you what it takes to get your app built and running, the correct answer is *not* "just download the Linux version and use that." Asking FreeBSD users to use the Linux binaries when there is source available is tantamount to telling Linux users to use the Windows version when there's source available.
I had done all the work necessary to update the OpenArena port to the latest version at the time, and then played "follow the patchlevels cause their dev practices suck" for several more versions. I edited their wiki, writing out directions for getting the game running from source on FreeBSD, which was pretty easy to do...Which they promptly deleted and said, "just use the Linux version."
When I was working on the port I asked them repeatedly what the build deps were and such...They didn't know. They generally just banged on it and installed stuff until OA built and ran. Never once did they actually document what it took to build the game. They were truly representative of the kids-table level of QA/RE that seems to be commonplace in the small-project OSS development community at large. How many times did they make a major release, followed quickly by several patches to fix minor oversights that resulted in major problems and could have been avoided with checklist of "what to check before we release?"
Here's a dirty little secret for ya: they talk about making source changes to the engine but none of them matter. The FreeBSD port---now maintained by someone else, thankfully---runs on the ioquake3 engine and just uses the OA pak files and the like.
In short, they may have some decent modelers/map-makers/artists working with them, but their software-dev guys are terrible to work with. I wouldn't use OA as a benchmark for anything.
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I gave up maintainership of the port on 25 Nov 2010. Hopefully things have improved, cause they were running that project into the ground. I don't interact with the current port maintainer, so I can't say if things have improved or not from a "FreeBSD port maintainer point of view."
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I founded the ioquake3 project with some friends in 2005.
The experience of working with the OpenArena project was similar to that described by HEMI_426. At this point they have cut off communication with us and I would be surprised, but happy, if that relationship ever improves.
So, now we are attempting to create our own freely distributable, creative commons licensed, game to distribute whenever anyone downloads ioquake3 that won't be "adults only" and won't have anything to do with OpenArena's direction.
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Because Adults Only is an ESRB rating applied to hardcore pornography in games; not games that contain mild nudity and violence.
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Jack Thompson wants an external agency which usually ends up with its own agenda (i.e. the government) to censor video games. The dev team is saying they want their work to be distributed to certain people.
If you can't understand the difference, you are as bad as Thompson is.
Why an ESRB rating? (Score:2)
If they're just planning on offering this online, why would they bother getting the ESRB to rate this?
It's *NOT* an ESRB rating. Bad summary. (Score:3)
From the fine article:
"Because there is blood and guns, we’ve marked the download with an adult content sticker."
It's not the ESRB's AO rating.
I'd chastise the editor for failing to edit but at slashdot that would be a pretty empty gesture.
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I believe, given the sample size of Slashdot articles, and the pattern of poorly written titles and summaries, it is pretty clear that somebody sneaked a "not" into the job definition of Editor.
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I'd chastise the person who labeled the download as such. If you make a video and you rate it as "NA-17", then expect to have people make the assumption that your NA-17 denotes the same kind of content the MPAA's NA-17 does.
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I would always turn *everything* all the way up, enjoy the eye candy for a few minutes, and then turn it all back down to max my frame rate and start playing for real.
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Breasts Galore (Score:3)
Re:Breasts Galore (Score:5, Funny)
Which is why we need faster computers. The lack of jiggle in computer game tits is no longer acceptable. Perhaps if we dedicated a couple of cores and a GPU pipe or 16 something could be done about this travesty.
Do we really need to spend as many computing resources on face rendering while tits languish, Rigid as a 80s stripper's fake monsters.
Believe it or not, many games don't even bother putting an articulated bone in the breast. That would be lame, but at least they would be trying. Also you could edit the motion files and make the tits bounce comically.
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testicle stalking me
Half-Life got that covered [wikia.com]...
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not "Adults Only" ESRB (Score:2)
"Because there is blood and guns, we’ve marked the download with an adult content sticker."
It isn't rated by the ESRB as AO. If it was rated by the ESRB it would be M.
Just needs boobies (Score:2)
Then it can be rated PG. Boobs never hurt anybody.
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Then it can be rated PG. Boobs never hurt anybody.
Ahh, Duke3D, there was a game. Too bad they never made a sequel.
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No, no, it's good that they never made a sequel. I'm from the alternate universe where they did. The angels weep for us.
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Boobs never hurt anybody.
This guy [local12.com] might disagree with you.
Adults only? (Score:1)
I thought that in America, blood and guns were just fine for consumption by children and that only sexual stuff was Adults Only... so I had images of Ranger running around firing dildos at enemies that looked like a vagina... which oddly, would fit into a misogynistic world view.
Why Raspberry Pi? (Score:1)
Well....... (Score:2)
Besides, the crappy drawn blood and ambiguously crappy gibs would be the least of anyone's concern. The female player design, maybe.... (prime example: the valkyrie-ish Angelyss has large bouncing breasts and wears a slingshot bikini design for armor as a satirical take on the 'ChainmailBikini' trope)
Also, the heavy texture switching in OA isn't
Open Arena is not AO ... (Score:2)
open arena = garbage (Score:1)
Open arena is pure crap and I always hated it. No one needs it no one wants a port of it. Openarena has become the five dollar crackwhore of open source gaming beating on the car window of every new system