| 3D First Person Shooter News Sites | |
| Bluesnews | Blues' News is a site you'll want to visit frequently if your into Quake or other 3D engine games. Also has a lanparty announcement page, hardware, and software reviews.. |
| Shacknews | Scary's Sugar Shack is now shacknews. Like Bluesnews focuses on 3DFPS's but also posts news on Napster and other stuff gamers are into. |
| Source Ports : Play classic that the authors have released the source for, updated by freelance coders. | |
| Quake Source | Disappeared after a planned server move. Anyone know if its returning? The Quakesource forums are (were?) a valuable resourse for those programming source ports of the Quake series. |
| Duke3D Source Ports | Since the Duke3D source portal closed down, I've linked to wikipedia's page on the subject. |
| The Quake Revitalization Project | The goal of this project as a whole is to modernize Quake's visual effects as much as possible without changing the mood, theme, or atmosphere of any setting. Houses the Quake remodeling and retexturing projects. Modernizes Q1's look using hires textures and models. |
| Server Query Software : Tools to find online game servers. | |
| Xfire | Has Instant Messaging capabilities, but supports in game messages as well as status indication showing when and what contacts are playing. Voice chat and joining friends games are supported. Has a lan server detection and a decent game server browser built in. |
| Server Watch | This program will set a icon in the system tray and continuously monitor a server and give audio info when buddies are on, etc. Good for people who have a 'home server' that they play on. |
| AGSM | AGSM lets you monitor and easily launch games at LANs as well as net servers. No buddy lists or alarms like Serverwatch, but if you monitor over five servers definitely worth using, especially at Mega-Lanparties. |
| Game Mods | |
| HL2 : Runes | Half-Life:Runes is a simple modification for Half-life 2:Deathmatch®. It is an adaption of the classic Quake mod known as Rune Quake(Originally known as Artifact) This Mod adds special powerups called Runes. |
| Rune Quake | Rune Quake is a QuakeC modification for Quake (One) and Quakeworld The simplest description of how the game works is that you pick up a rune, these are the pinkish-purple things at the end of each episode, and you gain a special ability. Derived from the Artifact Quake by Singe and Griphis, probably the best gaming mod I've ever played. |
| 515 Mod | 515 is a mod that adds several new gametypes : Last Man Standing, Double and Normal Domination, CTF, One Flag CTF, Destroy the Crystal, and Harvester. Also adds new weapons as well. |
| Fortress Forever | Fortress Forever is a Team Fortress mod for Half-life 2's Source Engine. Our independent team is creating this mod entirely from scratch. |
| Zombie Master | Zombie Master is a multiplayer Half-Life 2 modification, centred around a zombie-apocalypse, which throws all but one player in the shoes of human survivors. Pitched against a relentless tide of rotting flesh, they must scavenge for weaponry and equipment just to stay alive. But that one player, chosen randomly at the beginning of the round, is not bound by mortal restraints. To speak his name is to invite the wrath of hell - but most call him the 'Zombie Master'. He is nigh omnipotent. His invisible hand controls the legions of undead like puppets on strings; slowly closing the net on the humans while they run to and fro like rats in a maze. |
| Telephony / Home Networking | |
| MODEM-to-MODEM TCP/IP | Info on how to connect over local phone lines without the need for the internet for quake two or any TCP/IP game. Great if you don't have broadband and want to play someone head to head locally. |
| Home PC Networking | Welcome to homePCnetwork.com. THE site for information on home PC networks. This site is designed for "regular people" by regular people. |
| Freeware Gaming Projects/ Content | |
| Alien Arena | Standalone Q2 derivative opensource deathmatch game. |
| Darkplaces | Dark Places is a Quake modification I have built over the course of 6 years on and off experimenting, it got somewhat of an overhaul when the Quake engine source code was released, and I began developing a custom OpenGL-only engine for it and other mods, which supports Windows WGL and Linux GLX, and has greatly improved graphics and image quality. |
| Nexuiz | Nexuiz uses such technology as curved surfaces with its detailed maps, bumpmapping, realtime shadows, 64 player support, and an advanced model format. The Nexuiz game contains over 1000 TGA textures, 20 very detailed maps, and over 40 characters to choose from. |
| Nosferatu | A Darkplaces based standalone project with vamps versus humans. Has some advanced engine features like skeletal models. |
| Open Arena | OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. |
| Open Quartz | We are developing GPL-compatible content - including models, maps, sounds and textures - which are required for a fully GPL game using the GPL Quake source (Quake 1). |
| Openfrag | OpenFrag is an medieval first person shooter set in a dark medieval theme. For the time being it will be a multiplayer-only game. |
| Theprodukkt | .theprodukkt's first product: chapter I of our experimental first person shooter. all the code, textures, geometry, sound, monsters and, well, lots of bugs - all crammed into 96 kilobytes. |
| Transfusion | Transfusion plunges you into a world originally created in 1997's Blood by Monolith Productions, in this port to the Quake One engine. |
| Tremulous | Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. |
| True Combat | TrueCombat:Elite - A team-based realism modification, based on the free and popular Enemy Territory. |
| True Paint | A fast-paced first person shooter with different styles of paintballing and customizable weapons and various arenas from backyards to buildings, save your custom marker and try it out against your friends online. |
| Warsow | Warsow is a First-person shooter designed for online play. Many games, as detailed below, have inspired Warsow, yet it is its own unique game. Similarities to Quake 3 CPMA and Unreal Tournament series are probably the most evident. The team has sought to create a fun, fast, action-packed game which may be seen as a critique of the many realistic, slow, warfare-orientated First-person-shooters that saturate todays FPS market. |
Last Modified: April 28th, 2008