An interesting concept called “Receiver” by Wolfire games:
A video showing the updates and guns that were added:
Made in only 7 days as a part of an FPS game programming challenge. Shoot drones, and turrets while manipulating your 1911, Glock, or revolver realistically using the mouse and a lot of keys. Nice touch that they made the Glock with an auto add-on. Available over at Wolfire Games at an introductory price of only $5.
The fact it’s an FPS without the P (person) is interesting until you realize that there’s basically just an “invisible” person. Decent looking game for $5 nevertheless. I like the fact that it’s open source too because if it catches on there are a lot of people that will do some really awesome stuff for it.
Thoughts?
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6 responses to “Open Source Video Game Where You Play As The Gun”
Permadeath, random levels, AND realistic guns?!
INSTABOUGHT!
Crap the antigunners were right! Guns do go around on thier own shooting people!
Looks like a great proof of concept. If this gets integrated into mainstream FPS games to allow realistic gun mechanics I might actually start playing multiplayer FPSs again. I doubt it will though. Sales would die whenever the normal CoD demographic players find the game unplayable because they have to actually know remotely how a firearm works to reload.
Oh well a man can dream. Clearing malfunctions in a firefight sure sounds like a fun challenge as long as I don’t have to do it in real life.
You could clear jams in Americas Army, but I don’t recall a gun ever jamming while in a multiplayer match. Been a while since I played though.
Permadeth is the feature du jour.
I bought it, simple but fun. I spent about 30 minutes learning the control in the same way I would with a real pistol. Now I smile as I quickly drop a magazine throw it away, jam a new one in the pistol, release the slide and open fire. It’s very realistic. You can ever super-load your pistols, or load the revolver with between 1 and 3 rounds (and spin the cylinder) for a bit of extra “luck” based challenge