Not clear how you submit new listings to this site. I'd like to get my little RTS https://github.com/simonw/battledrones on there - I released it yesterday (Apache 2.0 license) and it's already attracted a fork that translates it to French and redoes the graphics to be 1900s Belle Époque steampunk: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/panache/
As a kid, I would have been all over this. The signal to noise ratio is pretty bad, but that was also true for shareware collections (how about another implementation of Mahjongg) and it didn't stop me. Granted, kids these days probably have other ways to spend their time.
I don't think it's a proper filter, looks like just a tag that needs to be manually applied to the game somewhere. I can tell it's not showing some FLOSS games with correctly filled out license metadata.
1. Rather than showing fake screenshot (e.g. sdl-sopwith) because GitHub repo doesn't have it, you should show nothing.
2. Some game showed tailored screenshot that doesn't look like that game at all, exactly like Google play store. Showing representative screenshot is the most valuable thing you can do, you shouldn't even allow them to choose screenshot, it should be moderator choosing screenshot, not author of game, otherwise it will end up just like Google play store where images are basically useless.
3. Some projects are "engine only" and should be flagged as such.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 176 ms ] threadI don’t see the point of any of this.
OpenTTD is an open source game, you can download it and play it as is right now, everything is included.
OpenMW is an open source engine but not an open source game per se, you need to purchase Morrowind on Steam or GOG to actually play the game itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...
...and replace gpl3 with: gpl2, lgpl3, lgpl2, mit, bsd2, bsd3, apache2, artistic, epl, mpl, unlicense, zlib.
Itch has this filter: https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source
As a bonus here are some random non abandoned lists I found with quick search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...
https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games
I don't think it's a proper filter, looks like just a tag that needs to be manually applied to the game somewhere. I can tell it's not showing some FLOSS games with correctly filled out license metadata.
2. Some game showed tailored screenshot that doesn't look like that game at all, exactly like Google play store. Showing representative screenshot is the most valuable thing you can do, you shouldn't even allow them to choose screenshot, it should be moderator choosing screenshot, not author of game, otherwise it will end up just like Google play store where images are basically useless.
3. Some projects are "engine only" and should be flagged as such.