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causesothere 8 hours ago [-]
For a second I thought this was that 90s era game about the space race where you play a tank pilot on the moon fighting the USSR in a first person rts.
I'm sure this game shares some DNA or history, but man, big nostalgia hit.
thx. You can actually also see their tiny (OCaml) code from the same website.
squarefoot 7 hours ago [-]
It's inspired by BattleZone which I loved/hated back in the day at the arcade for being too hard. I never imagined I would become much later a regular BZFlag league player. Come take a look, the community shrank over the years but we're still having fun.
VerifiedReports 5 hours ago [-]
Hm, not sure what that refers to. BattleZone was a vector-graphics arcade game from Atari.
Same here... probably playing at the same time as Heavy Gear, Mortyr and Ghost Recon
nullify88 8 hours ago [-]
Eagles nest 1.
tikhonj 9 hours ago [-]
Oh man, there's a real hit of nostalgia. I played BZFlag a whole bunch back in middle school and high school, and it was one of the first places where I got involved in the community at all (mostly hanging around some phpbb forums!)
Good times.
I don't remember too much of what I did, but I made a couple of maps one of which was hosted on a server for a week or something. It wasn't especially good, but it was a pretty amazing experience that somebody else thought something I made was good enough to try out, and that I could log into a "real" server and see it in action :P
Plaastix 9 hours ago [-]
Wow same! I'm so amazed to see this on HN. One of the few amazing open source multi platform games
reactordev 3 hours ago [-]
While we’re at it, MechWarrior/BattleTech could use some TLC in the form of the same treatment.
This and titles like it made my childhood
VerifiedReports 5 hours ago [-]
I hope this expands the community.
BZFlag suffers from inbreeding, where a couple of abusive admins can harass and ban players across all the (two) popular servers and choke off an already-small community. They abet cheaters and ban those who call them out, which is perplexing and sad.
doctoboggan 8 hours ago [-]
I played this game a lot, and it was somewhat responsible for me learning the linux server environment. I scrounged together a computer from my friend's dad's old parts bin, installed ubuntu on it, and then built a BZFlag map and shared it with my friends. I still remember the feeling of seeing someone I didn't know joining my game.
pjmlp 5 hours ago [-]
The server looks dead to me, oh well.
stackghost 8 hours ago [-]
I had so many sweaty sessions on the Hepcat pillbox server, back in the day. No jumping, no superflags, CTF. Super high skill ceiling. That was some of the best gaming.
triyambakam 6 hours ago [-]
Oh wow, I was on Hepcat too. That was a good one
great_tankard 8 hours ago [-]
gg
hn_submit 8 hours ago [-]
This is a slop port to TypeScript / JavaScript? The original code was written in C++.
The Apocalypse map is still golden!
indigodaddy 8 hours ago [-]
Looks like Tim Riker is driving it. He's been the main maintainer and name behind BZFlag ever since I can remember..
shiomiru 4 hours ago [-]
He holds copyright, but to my knowledge he hasn't been an active contributor for a very long time.
(At least I remember reading a discussion on BZFlag licensing a decade ago, when his inactivity was already noted. Looking at the commit log, he made 9 commits since 2011 and they mostly concern licensing.)
VerifiedReports 5 hours ago [-]
The maintainer himself is creating this.
readthenotes1 7 hours ago [-]
Everyone knows that unless a game is programmed with handcrafted machine code (assembly is a modern crutch for those who can't program of course) that it is simply not worth playing
hn_submit 53 minutes ago [-]
Having seen with my own eyes what you can do with assembly per KolibriOS I agree with you.
pjmlp 5 hours ago [-]
Yes definitely, hand translated into hexadecimal and then typed in via code monitors, or if getting fancy DATA blocks, preceded by a mini loader and jump to execution entry code. /s
I'm sure this game shares some DNA or history, but man, big nostalgia hit.
https://rebellion.com/games/battlezone-98-redux/
Good times.
I don't remember too much of what I did, but I made a couple of maps one of which was hosted on a server for a week or something. It wasn't especially good, but it was a pretty amazing experience that somebody else thought something I made was good enough to try out, and that I could log into a "real" server and see it in action :P
This and titles like it made my childhood
BZFlag suffers from inbreeding, where a couple of abusive admins can harass and ban players across all the (two) popular servers and choke off an already-small community. They abet cheaters and ban those who call them out, which is perplexing and sad.
The Apocalypse map is still golden!
(At least I remember reading a discussion on BZFlag licensing a decade ago, when his inactivity was already noted. Looking at the commit log, he made 9 commits since 2011 and they mostly concern licensing.)