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Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense game (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought this game was well known but I haven't seen almost any mentions of it recently. It's very weird for a FOSS enthusiast not to advertise one of the best open-source games of all time so here I am trying to make it spoken about again.

Disclaimer: this game may be addictive for some individuals. Player discretion is advised. If you notice any symptoms of addiction while and/or after playing the game, stop playing immediately and consult with your doctor. Untreated gaming addiction may result in severe consequences such as digestive disorders, social behavioral disorders, loss of job, and depression.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call the game 'extremely high difficulty', it even has some easier levels early on (at least when I played it a couple of years ago). I'm not a regular tower-defense or sim game player and I was able to complete Serpulo. It can be a challenging puzzle at times, but it's not a game I'd feel a need to warn people about difficulty-wise.

Disclaimer: this game may be addictive for some individuals.

Seconding (although I have a tendency to marathon the campaign of any game I think is excellent). No need for predatory tricks like loots, this is just a damn fun game.

It’s very weird for a FOSS enthusiast not to advertise one of the best open-source games of all time so here I am trying to make it spoken about again.

IIRC I found it in a 'top 100 FOSS games' list because it was one of the first which wasn't an open-sourced cloning of an existing game. No disrespect for clones and adaptations at all, but it's extra special to see original softwares so good that even people who don't care about FOSSness would use them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

it even has some easier levels early on

Yes but that's the thing. The difficulty increase is probably one of the highest in the game industry and all levels except for the first ones are quite hard. Also this is not just from my experience. I read an article about it somewhere in the past.

but it's extra special to see original softwares so good that even people who don't care about FOSSness would use them.

I looked into Mindustry after seeing it on a pretty big gaming YouTube channel (Real Civil Engineer) and there was quite a discussion about it so I would say it's a very successful indie title in general. That's also why it's a perfect advertiser of today's FOSS (alongside with YouTube downloaders lol).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wow this game is great! Who couldn't enjoy something like this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Who couldn't enjoy something like this?

FPS players?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I love a good FPS and I loved Mindustry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

Oops, fare point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

are there people that only play FPS?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 23 hours ago

Idk but FPS players' preferences usually should be quite far from games like Mindustry.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Unironically, I had to delete this game from my phone because I wasn't getting work done. This game slaps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I found out about it on Android first but had a hard time with the interface. I put it on my PC and am now fully addicted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Same, I played 8 hours in two work days (this is huge for me who usually plays 8 hours a month). This game is addictive as hell

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's great and all (it really is), but the target audience was just presented factorio 2.0 (and space age), so we're busy for a few months.

[+] [email protected] -57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (14 children)

Sorry didn't know that. I'm not interested in Factorio because imo it looks terrible.

EDIT: I'm gonna open an issue so Lemmy lets OPs edit and delete comments on their posts. The amount of argument on here is too bad for a standard centralized moderation model.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

The person you're replying to was just making a comment that alludes to the fact that people who like this genre get addicted to other games. It was a light-hearted comment and you're the one who got negative first. People asked you to elaborate on your negativity and you got defensive. Now you're doubling down on that defensiveness. I get it. I've been there. But come on, man. I think everyone's got the same interests in mind here.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna open an issue so Lemmy lets OPs edit and delete comments on their posts. The amount of argument on here is too bad for a standard centralized moderation model.

LMAO you’re waaay too thin skinned to be given that sort of power. There is just some polite discussion of Factorio’s graphics going on.

You should probably just leave Lemmy if you’re that hyper sensitive to any form of disagreement.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

Factorio does look like Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit. And given pollution is a major mechanic in the game it's on theme.

Mindustry meanwhile has the look of a game you'd find on one of those old 101 games on 1 CD! complilations you'd find back in the 90's, and yet it runs...well like every other game that's ever been packaged as a .deb.

I don't really hitch horses with a game whose main gameplay loop involves keeping an eye on things that are off screen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I don’t understand. You think Factorio is visually not pleasing but Mindustry is? Are you for real?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Seconding, Mindustry is much more visually pleasing to me than Factorio. From the screenshots I'm looking at, Factorio's graphics just don't have consistent composition, so elements in the same image look out of place. Shadows aren't even going in the same direction or logical lengths, and only sometimes they're pure black giving weirdly high contrast in certain objects and not others. Many environments are various shades of puke colors. The perspective looks weird to me, as if we could turn the map 90 degrees and then all the buildings would look like the leaning tower of Piza.

I would compare and contrast between the original Fallout, perhaps, or as Captain Aggravated here else said, "Factorio does look like Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit.".

Now, whether these are problems or style is a matter of opinion, and furthermore whether it should have an appealing style (as Cpt. Agg also said, pollution is a theme in the game) but some of those points are objectively straying from conventionally appealing elements.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I like how other people are being nice about it. Makes me have a little hope for humanity.

You’re objectively wrong though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Even as someone who doesn’t usually play the genre it’s a fantastic game

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Spicy take around these parts.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not interested in Factorio because imo it looks terrible.

What do you not like about it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He just told you: "it looks terrible." And he's not wrong; Factorio's art really does kinda suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Factorio's art really does kinda suck.

I will restate the original question: What do you not like about it?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/comment/13329257

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Man I love factorio's art, had no idea people thought it was bad. Maybe at release. But there's alot of attention to detail in the sprites, even the trees sway gently in the breeze. You don't see that often in other games of a similar style.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think it necessarily sucks. It's just old and I'm not a fan of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It looks like the "good enough" placeholder art that devs put in before they get around to hiring an actual artist. It's serviceable to understand what things are and what's happening, but there's no style to it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I personally disagree, I really love the dramatic sprite style they've gone with. Everything's so hyper industrial with lovely details when you zoom in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

It is my understanding that Factorio's art is 3D modeled and rigged, and then 2D animation frames are captured from that so the game doesn't have to actually render 10,000 inserters every tick.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

It’s also so wonderfully mechanical and smoothly animated. Might not hit for those that didn’t grow up with similar styles or something.