It is an open source multiplayer first-person shooter. It uses the id Tech 3 engine source code (which is released under the GNU General Public License v2), and fills in the blank with all new media to make a playable game.

  • It's not a 'scavenge the internet for stuff' compilation project, the only things scavenged are some maps, which are OKAY because their source was released under the GPL.
  • Everything is strictly open source so they can be improved forever (and ever). 
  • The additional "Missionpack" game types and weapons are merged into the base, so you get to lay the mines in overload maps. 
  • There's more game types than the base game, like Domination, Last Man Standing, and what not. ("What not" does not refer to a gametype of that name - Ed)
  • Uses ioq3 for various feature additions, but it is not ioq3 dependent; it's also intended to be vanilla compatible. (The only thing that won't work is ogg music) 
  • The art direction is different and not strictly 'gothic'. There's more of a eastern slant than the usual 'put skulls n' blood all over it's cool' you find in most games. 
  • It's not next-gen, and computer compatibility range is wide enough to run on that dusty Pentium II in your attic. 
  • There are bots, perfect for when you're stranded on an island. 
  • There's also people playing it on the internet.
  • It is Free Software, so there's no guilt in downloading it and redistributing it.

OpenArena is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 - data and engine. Anyone can contribute to it, if it complies with the GNU GPL.

WARNING: OpenArena contains Mature Content. I'm serious. If you don't like shooting the bloody guts and beating hearts out of voluptuous barely modest combatants then don't play it, or play without the mature pk3 file and use com_blood 0/cg_showGibs 0 (but be aware that pure servers may not agree with this).

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2 comments by noChance79 on Apr 18th, 2012

After a short delay of only several month finally the 0.8.8 release of OpenArena arrived at Desura.
Go give it a glance and maybe set up a dedicated server to celebrate this memorable event ;-)

The 0.8.8 release features a new character model called Neko and a bunch of either reworked or completely new maps for offline single player or online multiplayer games.

Next time a new version is released, it will doubtlessly arrive a little earlier over here.

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sRGB CC BY SA

sRGB CC BY SA

Mar 11, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This is a copy of sRGB map but under CC BY SA license.

Legocurse revision 1.2 CC BY SA

Legocurse revision 1.2 CC BY SA

Mar 11, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This map is a copy of legocurse but under CC BY SA license.

Legodeck revision 2 CC BY SA

Legodeck revision 2 CC BY SA

Mar 11, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This map is a copy of legodeck but under CC BY SA license.

Legocurse revision 1.2 gplv2

Legocurse revision 1.2 gplv2

Feb 16, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This map is based on dm-curse for UT. I made this years ago and now I'm releasing an updated version under GPLv2.

Legodeck revision 2 gplv2

Legodeck revision 2 gplv2

Feb 3, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This is the deck16 map from UT1, lego texture style. It has a different layout, with many changes to the original map. This map is an update to the original...

sRGB Color wheel

sRGB Color wheel

Jan 29, 2013 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

This map is the RGB color wheel, literally. 3 weapons and 3 levels.

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TKAzA
TKAzA Nov 9 2005, 10:02am says:

rofl
he did it to make ppl come here
boobies XD

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RatoN
RatoN Nov 9 2005, 7:45am says:

Know it's a joke right, cossack13? :P

+4 votes     reply to comment
cossack13
cossack13 Nov 7 2005, 4:10am says:

were is baywhatch source

+4 votes     reply to comment
leilei
leilei Nov 4 2005, 9:23am says:

also, the views went by 200 since i stuck that in my sig

apparently the valve brainwashed will go for anything on source

+3 votes     reply to comment
TheDebonairNomad
TheDebonairNomad Oct 31 2005, 10:05pm says:

the intro should be all the player models running in slow motion, and they are wearing little to nothing.

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deathmedic3rd
deathmedic3rd Oct 30 2005, 5:45pm says:

wheres baywatch source!!! :o

lol

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Pxtl
Pxtl Nov 3 2005, 12:56pm says:

I noticed you got as many comments for "Baywatch Source" as you did for "OpenArena" despite the Baywatch Source thing being recent and a complete gag.

Is this an odd statement about the patrons of this site?

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leilei
leilei Nov 15 2005, 7:16pm says:

OMG A TWO DOTTER MAKING A COMMENT IN MY MOD REFERENCING ANAL SEX YOU SHUOLD BE DEMOTED 15 YEAR ODL! TRY TALKING TO YOUR MOTHER ABOUT IT.

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Pxtl
Pxtl Sep 9 2005, 11:44am says:

Quake 3 is by far the best game for this sort of project - Q3 is the GPL game with the best first-class support for it's mods (they're in the menu, get their own keybindings, etc.) and there is tons upon tons of incredible free content out there in the form of maps, weapons, and playermodels. Most of the work was done years ago, and I find that authors aren't overprotective of 4 year old content.

Really, if you can get 3rd-party-content put together and don't fall into the trap of Not Invented Here, then Open Arena could easily populat the roster of models, maps, and weapons quickly. All that would remain would be sounds, music, texturemaps, and smaller engine features.

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General_Dingo
General_Dingo Oct 20 2010, 7:53am replied:

If you 'borrowed' any of my four year old work, I would sue you.

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I love finally see OpenArena on Desura!

It's a great game, maybe the best shooter Q3 based.

Great job devs :)

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