This is a post aming to show you some open source games, you can start hacking on today. I think open source games, among other things, have a huge advantage in that they probably will outlive their commercial counterparts. As the availability of many AAA games are more-or-less tied to cloud gaming platforms, it is becoming increasingly important that we have these alternatives.
Below you'll find some of my favorites. Maybe you already know them? If you're working on your own game and/or looking for contributions, feel free to add it in the comments.
Elite/Privateer Clones
Oolite: http://www.oolite.org/
Pioneer: https://pioneerspacesim.net/
Endless Sky
https://endless-sky.github.io/
The Battle for Westnoth
Chocolate Doom
https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Chocolate_Doom
Civilization
FreeCol
Transport Tycoon
https://www.openttd.org/development.html
Xonotic
https://www.xonotic.org/
(Gitlab link at the bottom of the page)
SuperTuxKart
https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page
Fellow dev.to user Thamara Andrade has made a great article on how to contribute to Open Source, you can find it here:
https://dev.to/thamara/contributing-to-open-source-a-brief-how-to-i36
Wikipedia is a great source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games
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