It's a game designed to be Free Software. 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 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. 
  • 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).

This game has Adult Content. Rated by TIGRS™

Mild Language
Intense Fantasy Violence
Blood and Gore
Suggestive Themes

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OpenArena Progress Report #2

2009-09-12


The color of the pen is rrrrrrr.....ROYAL BLUE


For a while i've been playing with colors for the classic menu system to break the hardcoded tradition of red/orange graphics that has been for all versions. The background is animated and I have no new buttons yet.  In the screenshot, there's also VoIP support picked up from ioq3 as well.



Spacekrieg

ArmageddonMan on the forums has been mapping for a bit and i've only just recently committed his map pack to the SVN. The map at the top is called Space Contact. Over below that is a joint production between Bozceq and ArmageddonMan for a map called Blitzkrieg 2.


Revenge of the cats

Neko is no longer an Angelyss skin anymore. She is now getting her own player model, hopefully looking great once she gets her joints all figured out. The skin is incomplete to the point there's still no clothing so all I can show here is just a wire view.  The double-skirt )one is asymmetrical, the other is just symmetrical, in UV mapping) allows many improvisations to the creative opportunities for skinning.  Also (for you pervs) she has the biggest chest in the game which makes her the final new 'mature' model. SHE'S ALSO FROM JAPAN, SO KAWAII =<^_^>=

 

Coming Up Next Week: what the font!!?

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AM/NK's OpenArena Mappack (b4)

AM/NK's OpenArena Mappack (b4)

Mar 23, 2009 Multiplayer Map 2 comments

My mappack for OpenArena. ATM 11 maps, 6 CTF and 5 DM.

OpenArena 0.8.1 ZIP archive

OpenArena 0.8.1 ZIP archive

Oct 31, 2008 Full Version 13 comments

This is the Windows/Linux/Mac version of OpenArena 0.8.1 archived in the ZIP format.

Comments  (30 - 40 of 202)
BENTraplin
BENTraplin Nov 29 2008, 7:21pm says:

is it dead?

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Herr_Alien
Herr_Alien Nov 18 2008, 4:04pm says:

Interesting idea, the TIGRIS rating system ...

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Kee715
Kee715 Nov 10 2008, 4:00pm says:

This is pretty cool.

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mxmagic
mxmagic Nov 3 2008, 12:35pm says:

the other version rocked...i hope ill have enough time to try dis one

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Tron619
Tron619 Nov 2 2008, 5:27pm says: Online

whats does it mean when i try to play onlien it says invalid game folder

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leilei
leilei Oct 31 2008, 6:24pm says:

OEPNARENA IS BACK
but moddb ate my news :(

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razorb
razorb Sep 12 2008, 7:19pm says:

nevermind! i figured it out heh ... in the cfg file ;o just couldnt find it before!

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razorb
razorb Sep 12 2008, 4:42pm says:

is there a list of console commands anywhere? cg_drawgun doesnt work n such.. :O

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csMKJP
csMKJP Sep 11 2008, 11:39pm says:

Nice

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cochipahue
cochipahue Sep 6 2008, 3:02pm says:

this game is awesome!

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