Open Source City Building Games

-
Goal: Find a FOSS city building game to play with as a first project to help me learn to code.

The below table is from Wikipedia.

Name Sourcecode Programming language
3d.city [1] JavaScript
Citybound [2] Rust
Citygame [3] GDScript
Derbados [4] Kotlin
JS-City [5] JavaScript
Konstruisto [6] C++
KotCity [7] Kotlin
Lincity [8]
LinCity-NG [9] C++
Micropolis [10] TCL/Tk
micropolisJS [11] JavaScript
OpenCity [12]
OpenSC2K [13] JavaScript
Simple-City [14] Mathematica, C++
Simulopolis [15] C++
SubCity [16] Perl, C++
µCity [17] Assembly, C

Lincity and Lincity-NG link to the same Wikipedia page. OpenCity also has a Wikipedia page. I will need to do a little more digging to find overviews of others on the list.

Given my social nature, I probably want to find a FOSS project to play with that has an active development community where I can hang out. That may not actually work out for me, but I should at least investigate that angle.

I also found a list on a different site: Libre Game Wiki

I've actually played and liked FreeCiv. It's a civilization building game, not a city building game. For my purposes, that might be a good option as a first project.

Popular posts from this blog

My Ask HN

-
Linky The very first reply says it's HTML, CSS and XML. XML is a markup language but not the one used on Reddit which is Markdown. I already know some HTML and CSS and occasionally use the markup language on Reddit. So I might be able to code this, hire an artist to add drawings, add a shopping cart and be in business from the website end of things. I worked at BigCo when they were implementing some technology of some sort, I forget what. It looked to me like the scene in Men in Black 2 where the mail sorting machine turns out to be a cart with an alien with multiple arms flinging mail rapidly. To the customer, it's "tech." The actual back end is getting PEOPLE to do the work within the deadline as a priority for some damn reason. Cool if I can figure this out but then I need the 'back end': an actual knitting machine and business processes for taking the online orders, inputting them into the machine and making the clothes and mailing them off. I still need a
Read more

Baby Steps

-
Ask HN: Tips for finding FOSS in need of documentation help? Pinned post on r/github: Have or know of a project on Github looking for contributors? Feel free to drop them down to add to the wiki page! I actually found the following via Reddit : 4 Easy Ways to Contribute to an Open Source Project It suggests contributing documentation as an easy place to start. It says not one word about where to find documentation (other than their project). I need to make myself a little schedule. I already have kind of a schedule. There's a thing I do on Sundays. There's a thing I do on Mondays. I try to do stuff on Reddit at least two days out of the week, nominally "Tuesdays and Fridays" but not always and maybe I need to figure out a better way to say that. I need to add in there somewhere "Find some way to figure out how to do one Pull Request per week" and maybe pick a day of the week to do that or something. I'm generally more organized, but in a w
Read more