Spring Engine Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy

  Seems the support would be a realistic feature, though, because it's based on https://springrts.com/ that does support MacOS X. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers

  Springrts: Designed for 3D rts games. May be worth looking into if that's what you're making. The site is kind of lack luster so I didn't do too much digging around. Source: 7 months ago

• OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

  ...or Total Annihilation Spring, nowadays known as Spring RTS: https://springrts.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• What is your favorite open source Linux game? Mine is Wideland (Best way to describe is the way Settlers 3 should have been)

  My current favorite is Beyond All Reason. Before BAR, my favorite was Zero-K. Both BAR and zk use the same game engine, SpringRTS. BAR and zk are very similar to one another, and they're successors for Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. Source: about 1 year ago

• Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

  Obligatory mention of another open source RTS engine (lineage tracing back to the original Total Annihilation): https://springrts.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• What older video game holds a special place in your heart?

  Total Annihilation for sure, the spiritual successor Supreme Commander is great but a bit too different for me. There's an open source recreation that's a bit rough to learn at first, but it's my favorite game of all time called Spring RTS. https://springrts.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking for a RTS game like Zero-K

  Pretty much any game on the Spring Engine (which Zero-K is on) will work on Linux. Source: over 1 year ago

• Total Annihilation (Currently marked unsupported) works great on the deck! Just had to manually set the resolution.

  That said, SpringRTS is a thing if you've not seen it before. Source: over 1 year ago

• Miscellaneous Questions Regarding 3D from a Prospective User (maximum nodes, 3D vs Unity, etc)

  That said, having that many units will be very challenging in pretty much any general purpose engine and you may want to consider an engine built specifically for RTS games. A quick search found the spring RTS engine: https://springrts.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• For the love of God just help me port SpringRTS to Android already, it has taken far too long, what the hell is the holdup?

  r/springrts: Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the Https://springrts.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• What video game do you consider a masterpiece?

  Total Annihilation RTS. Really impressive for the hardware at the time, moddable, and super fun. The community has made SpringRTS and Beyond all Reason and last I heard Cavdog was essentially sold ~4 times and the original source code was lost. I still find the intro impressive considering it was released in 1997. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?

  Total Annihilation-like: [Beyond All Reason](https://www.beyondallreason.info/). There are also a few others (or supreme commander-likes) run on the [springrts engine](https://springrts.com/) including zero-k. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Total annihilation - I can’t be the only on who enjoyed this in the late 90s / early 00s?

  You may find this interesting: https://springrts.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• who wants to play some TA???

  Also, if you want to play online: https://springrts.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

• What makes supreme commander forged alliance better than any rts?

  Zero-K is a Spring engine game. Spring was originally a project to convert the original Total Annihilation to a more modern true 3D game, and developed into an engine for TA-like games. Zero-K is descended from TA-derived games on Spring - Absolute Annihilation, Balanced Annihilation, Complete Annihilation. Source: about 2 years ago

• Which older video game do you still have fun playing now?

  The mentioned remake/successor games are all running on the Spring engine. Source: over 2 years ago

• Working on flamethrowers for our game :) Do you feel the heat? | Beyond All Reason (Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander-inspired free open source RTS)

  A customized fork of SpringRTS engine (open-source) Https://springrts.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• AMD: We Stand Ready To Make Arm Chips

  We got TA Spring for a long time now. Especially the balance annihilation "mod" gets very close to the original. Source: over 2 years ago

• Should I even get into game development?

  You can get started with https://springrts.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Beyond All Reason: Open-Source RTS Reimagining Cavedog's Total Annihilation

  It looks like it's a clever double-bacronym, since BAR is also "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" which is what this project started as. Balanced Annihilation being the most influential and TA-like of the several games built on top of the Spring ( https://springrts.com/ ) engine... Which was originally made for TAlikes though there are several other projects on the engine now. Zero-K is also a popular Balanced... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• RTS games similar to childhood fave Total Annihilation that run on macs?

  There is https://springrts.com/ which stated as an open source clone of TA and transformed into an engine with different content mods. I'm sure there will be something for you to enjoy. Source: over 2 years ago