Ace of Spades (OpenSpades)

Game: Ace of Spades → (Windows, 2011)

OpenSpades: an open-source client compatible with Ace of Spades 0.75, Ben Aksoy’s free online first-person shooter, with fully destructible voxel terrain and community-made game modes such as Capture the Flag. It connects to vanilla servers and to pyspades and pysnip ones, and it also supports the 0.76 protocol. It was created by yvt and is maintained by the community. It uses OpenGL, with effects such as volumetric fog, and has a software renderer; audio goes through OpenAL or the YSR engine. It includes a server browser, supports weapon mods, and is translated into more than a dozen languages. The latest release is 0.1.3 (January 4, 2019), with builds for Windows and macOS; on Linux it’s installed with Snap or Flatpak. The latest code changes are from May 2023. The downloads include the pak000-Nonfree.pak package, which according to yvt contains the player and map object models extracted from the original client and one sound from 0.75. When building it, that package is downloaded from the author’s openspades-paks repository on GitHub; this can be turned off, but then, according to yvt, it isn’t really playable.

You needNo copy needed: Ace of Spades 0.75 was a free game and OpenSpades comes with everything needed to play. It’s played online, so you need an internet connection. Plus Windows Vista or later, macOS, or Linux; at minimum a 1 GHz dual-core CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and a graphics card with 512 MB (Intel HD Graphics 3000, GeForce 9 series, or Radeon HD 7350).

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Console

Microsoft Windows

Original studio

Ben Aksoy

Author

yvt

Stars

1.2k

Last activity

2024-06-06 · 2 years ago

Latest version

v0.1.3 · 2019-01-04

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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