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Earth Defense Force. Something where a single player or a bunch of them level city blocks with overpowered equipment in order to stop giant insects, aliens, robots and whatever the hell else from destroying the city
https://shp.itch.io/earth-invasion-99
Rather basic game-jam title though.
For something done in 7 days, that's awesome! I can't really test it now, but can you destroy the buildings?
The enemies can if I remember correctly.
Is it FOSS? I know the FTE QuakeWorld engine is, but I'm not sure if the QuakeC code made for this game (or the assets) would be, specially if they only provide a compiled
progs.datbytecode in the pak files (but I don't know if they do, I'll have to downloaded it later).Usually the games by Shpuld have the source-code on their github. I didn't check for this game specifically, but if you ask they will likely make it available as it falls under the GPL.
Yes, I was finally able to download it and the QuakeC source is within the same download. Niceπ
Never heard about it, but looks cool!
EDF4 and EDF5 go on sale every once in a while on Steam. Both games can feel extremely repetitive, so ymmv. 4 has the best story (it's 100% grade B-movie cheese) and the best soldier song, 5 has significant quality of life improvements and is overall better to play and fuck around, but tries to take its story more seriously (though it has one of the best lines to my knowledge, when the first frog aliens come along)