{"id":148,"date":"2005-11-17T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-11-21T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T23:32:57","slug":"free-games-that-used-to-be-commercial-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/free-games-that-used-to-be-commercial-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Games That Used To Be Commercial Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I read new trivia additions on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\">MobyGames<\/a>, I see more and more bits about commercial games being open sourced. I figured that there must be some site out there that documents such transitions and lo and behold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/\">http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wager there is some custom FMV code in there somewhere. We already know for a fact that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=7\">Descent II<\/a> source contains a 16-bit Interplay MVE decoder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=11\">Quake II<\/a> source contains a Quake II Cinematic (.cin) decoder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=90\">Quake III<\/a> source contains a RoQ decoder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A number of the games listed at Liberated Games are only free in that the binary executable and data are available, but no source code. <\/p>\n<p>A few more items I would like to investigate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=38\">Hexen II<\/a> is open source (GPL). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/hexen-ii\/screenshots\/gameShotId,12237\/\">This screenshot<\/a> makes it look like the game has some FMV. This game is based on the Quake engine. Per my understanding, Quake did not feature FMV. Quake II did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=87\">Stargunner<\/a> is free for download. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/stargunner\/screenshots\/gameShotId,69087\/\">This screenshot<\/a> looks like it might be FMV.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=37\">Hidden &#038; Dangerous<\/a> is free for download. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/hidden-dangerous\/screenshots\">These screenshots<\/a> may or may not represent FMV.<\/li>\n<li>Further, <a href=\"http:\/\/liberatedgames.com\/game.php?game_id=42\">The Ur-quan Masters (Star Control 2)<\/a> has released both source and data. Part of the data available for download is a  speech pack. Nothing too special; all of the speech is available in Ogg Vorbis format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldskool.org\/\">Trixter<\/a> sends this intelligence about the titles above:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Hexen II &#8212; can&#8217;t verify if that&#8217;s video, but there are Animation credits in the game so it is probably yes.  However, most times that stuff is a FLIC file.  (BTW, don&#8217;t get all bunched up over FLIC &#8212; there are two main variants that are easy to support; the rest of all that junk was introduced and supported by only that one company you found the info on.)<\/li>\n<li>Stargunner: same thing, most likely a 320&#215;200 VGA FLIC.<\/li>\n<li>H&#038;D: no video as far as I know. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I read new trivia additions on MobyGames, I see more and more bits about commercial games being open sourced. I figured that there must be some site out there that documents such transitions and lo and behold: http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/ I wager there is some custom FMV code in there somewhere. We already know for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As I read new trivia additions on MobyGames, I see more and more bits about commercial games being open sourced. I figured that there must be some site out there that documents such transitions and lo and behold: http:\/\/www.liberatedgames.com\/ I wager there is some custom FMV code in there somewhere. 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