Howdy y'all

So I've slowly started playing other games and like with most things, get more enjoyment out of them playing with friends.

Proposal:

Every two weeks or so we rotate to playing a new secondary game with our MG-MGr buddies. This just means that when all the PT servers are empty, or you are not in the mood for tremulous, or whatever reason your first alternate choice should be the secondary game assigned at that time. Playing with you guys is fun, and I want to do it more, and in other games.

Game requirements: Free, Cross platform (linux/win (nobody cares about macs)).
The ability to run our own server easily and being open source is a plus.

We've been playing warsow a lot lately (or at least the few of us in IRC have) so I'll put that on the list, but not to begin with.

Suggested game(s):
 
Digital Paint
http://digitalpaint.planetquake.gamespy.com/news.php
A quake2 based standalone game. Basically paintball, can be lots of fun with a lot of strategy around CTF. TONS of maps. I suggest this one to be our first game.

Warsow
http://www.warsow.net/?page=home
Another q2 based stand alone game. Fast paced FPS with a focus on movement. Server is running on the lolcat and we play all the time.

Armagetron Advanced
http://www.armagetronad.net/
3d Tron cycle game. Server is running on lolcat, we used to play this back in the day and it was lots of fun. (goooooooo double binds).

BZflag
http://www.bzflag.org/
3D tank battle game. I know some of you have played this before.. I never 'got' it.

Glob2
http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
RTS where you dont have to do everything manually, playing over net can be lots of fun, does not require a server.

Freeciv
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Open source civilization. I fail so hard at this game it's not even funny.

Crossfire
http://crossfire.real-time.com/
cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Looks interesting

World of Padman
http://padworld.myexp.de/index.php?news
Q3 based game. If the funky artwork, excellent maps, and 3D breasts don't get you - my punchy will.


There are tons more, and if this picks up I'm sure y'all know more than me as I'm the newbie gamer of the lot. So what do you guys think? An easy way for }MG{ to branch-out to other games and we all know "variety is the spice of life"

Khalsa

Sounds fun. I'll want Plutocracy when we finish it.

Good idea. Ive been busy with school lately but highlight me on irc when you are getting a game together.

Why stop there maybe you should extend into other consoles.

Many of us (me) don't have any consoles. We do all have computers.


Khalsa

This sounds like fun. =D

If you guys don't mind, I'll tag along when my schedule permits.

I'm sure we won't mind

I've played all of those games at one point or another, and think it'd be a lot of fun to get back into them on an on-and-off basis with the rest of you guys.

Add spring to the list and maybe gloom and nexuiz. Great idea Khalsa.

My only complaint is that FreeCiv is so damn hard to learn and each game takes so damn long. I'm not sure we'd even figure all of it out in the two week limit

As much as I enjoy playing FreeCiv, games can take hours/days at a time depending on the settings. And it's not like you can just jump into a game with other people at any time, so I'm not really sure it'd be a good choice for this type of thing.

I used to play Crossfire with some friends, and that was something that I really liked. It's a really neat mix of Gauntlet, Nethack, and the MMORPG genre in general.

I'll join in where I can I guess

Screw them, let's start up a Spaceward Ho! game :>

Stupid Mac users and their updated Spaceward Ho! clients.