Open Source Side-Scrolling Games

nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output.

OpenLierox is an extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community. Dozens of levels and mods are available to provide endless gaming pleasure.

Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat, for Windows and Linux. It is currently playable, has 18 playable characters. There is network game, team mode, etc. You can even add your own character.

FreedroidRPG is an original isometric 3D role playing game taking place in the future, on Earth. It features action and dialogs. FreedroidClassic is a 2D arcade game similar to Paradroid. =========================================== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! FreedroidRPG is migrating !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Latest versions of Git repositories are on https://codeberg.org/freedroid/ - Binary files are hosted on http://ftp.osuosl.og/pub/freedroid ===========================================

IMPORTANT: this project has been replaced by YSoccer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ysoccer/ Yoda Soccer is a new soccer game which intends to give a continuation to the funny and easy playable series of Sensible World of Soccer (aka SWOS). Yoda soccer is written in BlitzMax. The source code is available under the GNU General Public License.

This game, I hope it will be soon, a good Clone of the game AtomicBomberMan. It supports multiplayer over the Internet. It's a funny smal game which can be very funny with other human players.

MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.

"Blinkensisters - Hunt for The Lost Pixels" is a Jump'n'Run game for nearly all recent operating systems. It's fun to play and you can make your own levels with a simple text editor. Also, you can download add-ons from within the game engine.

JVGS is an open source platform game that is not like the others. It is build on simple line structures loaded from svg files, giving the whole game a "sketched" and minimalistic look. Levels can be made with simple xml and lua files.

Project moved to Github: https://github.com/inequation/ac130 AC-130 is an arcade shooter game with old-school gameplay delivered in a modern style. You are a TV operator (gunner) aboard an AC-130 gunship, tasked with providing fire support to friendly troops on the ground. Inspired by the famous CoD 4 mission.

Blood Frontier was a single-player and multi-player first-person shooter game, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2 (Sauerbraten). The project has been discontinued. Details at http://www.bloodfrontier.com.

Mustafa 3d is a game based on older top-down scrolling arcade games. It focuses on fast and fun gameplay with bright graphics.

Young Sigmund has a few problems. To help him resolve his mental instability you must enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning brain cells. A port of Andy Southgate's 1994 Acorn Archimedes platform shooter.

PunkPong is an open source "Pong" alike game totally written in DHTML (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) that uses keyboard or mouse. This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows and others.

A complete rewrite of Heart of The Alien for modern computers and consoles.

Trip on the Funny Boat is side scrolling arcade shooter game on a steamboat equipped with a cannon and the ability to jump. The player will need to take advantage of waves to defeat the enemies and dodge hazards.

Otto the Snowman must face gruesome enemies, impossible jumps and explosions to accomplish his goal (which is still to be defined).

CloneKeen is an open-source clone of ID's classic DOS game Commander Keen. CloneKeen runs under many platforms including Linux & win32. There are some improvements over the original such as 2-player support. Original game data files are required.

MOAGG is a 2D gravity game, combining the idea and fun of several existing games, such as Space Taxi (C64) and Gravity Force (Amiga).

Rick Dangerous was one of my favorite games for the spectrum (and Amiga), it already has a very good clone (xrick), but it lacks the ability to easily create new maps and enhance the graphics since they are built in the code itself. RickyD uses xml extensively to configure all aspects of the game, from objects to tiles and sound, maps are also written in xml, so they can be easily edited. Creating completely new maps is very easy, just create a new tileset and use a tool like tiled to put everything together. RickyD uses the brand new SDL 2.0 and the matching libraries SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer and SDL2_ttf.

JGame is a small multiplatform 2D game engine. It runs on the Java JRE 1.3+ platform, the J2ME (MIDP2.0/CLDC1.1) mobile platform, and the Android (2.1+) platform. It provides a very high-level framework for "classic" type arcade games.

In this Breakout-style game, guide the bouncing ball left and right, clearing away blocks to reach the next level. Diamonds is a tribute to the original game, created by Oliver Dreer and released by Varcon Systems in 1992.

Invasores is a simple Shoot them up game. It's fun and it has been written in Python. You can modify the graphics and the levels to enhance the game and to enjoy. It is being developed with Python and Pygame. Newer versions are now at GitHub. https://github.com/lskbr/invasores

Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game for 1-6 players. The players have to fly around vacuuming up food and hostiles, avoiding enemies and poisonous food. Vacuumed food and enemies can be spat out, using them to blow up other enemies.

Peng-pong is a project to create a nice pong game in SDL with innovative rules and methods of interaction and play. Some, but not all of these innovations include multiple-ball games, multiple paddles, multiple players, and a new way of scoring one's game