Making Standalone Game's Thread

Can anybody inform me on how to make a standalone game? Thanks, cuz I have no idea where to start. Nothing in the tutorials.

Standalone game is kind of like a mod already, but on an open source engine.

Open source means they can fiddle around with the engine to improve it or make it to the specifications of the game.

This means you just release all of your game when its done and it needs no other game to run it on. So whatever you provide is what the public needs.

Anyone else wanna add to that?

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So is it decently easy to turn like say...a Half-Life 2 mod into Standalone?

Half life 2 isn't an open source engine, it is licenced by valve and should be for something like 10yrs or something. lol

Games that have turned into open source are to my knowledge, Quake 1, Quake 2, doom, doom2 and homeworld, i think.

Quake 3 was supposed to last year december, but it got delayed.

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Ah I see...2 things. 1) Which would you recommend? 2) People who can make models and maps for mods can also put the models etc. into Standalone games right?

Almost always, as long as the game uses a format their used too.

A Standalone game can also be a game engine you or someone else writes, doesnt have to be open source...

1) I personally recommend Quake 1
2) If you find the right people for the job yes

you don't seem to be very design wise, I wouldn't recommend you jump straight into a standalone game. If you haven't had any experience of games design at all, i'd have to say find a mod that could build your experience, It tooks me 2½ yrs of failing mods for me to realise what I needed to create a successful game.
My SForever game in my sig is standalone using quake 1.

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Standalone games can be huge, since you need to replace all content with your own, or else risk legal action. Quake is the most popular open source game engine.

someone should make a standalone game on the source engine. probably would be illegal though. that new vampire game did it though...

Wow...SF has great graphics...know where I can get Quake 1?

Those SF graphics are from the Quake 3 version, they're still working with the Quake engine to get the cel-shading.

Do a google search for Quake Source, and you should get something.

@DavidCult: You can't, even illegally. The HL2 exe has some stuff hardcoded into Steam, I've tried loading it without Steam running before.

goo, theres q1 pictures up on the sf site, so the graphic can STILL look good :/

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If you want to make a stand-alone game off a closed-source engine, you'll have to buy a license.

As for open-source engines like Quake1 and Quake2 - all the power to you.

And no, you can't get Quake1 for free, though you can use Open Quartz, and Seasons Forever is going to be standalone so you don't need either really anyway

I remember Quake1 was free from last night...there was a download link to the Quake1 Source. Is that it?

Also, if I am wrong, which would you guys recommend thats free?

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awchang331 wrote: I remember Quake1 was free from last night...there was a download link to the Quake1 Source. Is that it?

Quake1 source is free (GPL), but Quake1 itself, with all content, is not free and you must buy it.

get shareware version