Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition Released!

A while back, I wrote an Intern’s Corner post entitled My Open Source Life Outside of MAKE, in which I talked about my experience working on Alien Arena, the open source first-person shooter. Well, for those who might be interested, I’m proud to announce that version 7.60, codenamed “Reloaded Edition,” has recently been released. It’s a free, open source, and extremely fun video game that runs on Windows and Linux. Download it here.

Some of the new features for this release include:

Many new rendering features
Twelve new/rebuilt levels
Two new player characters, the Overlord and Warrior
Brand new “super” weapon, the Minderaser
Improved antilag code
“Simple” items rendering option
Improved and expanded movement
Improved Bot AI, particulary with CTF
New music, and music “shifts” in game situations
Variety of bug fixes and code cleansing

A full changelog can be found here: http://red.planetarena.org/aachangelogs/7.60.txt

2 Responses to Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition Released!

Tony on July 17th, 2012 at 6:05 pm said:

How do you prevent cheating in an open source competitive game? Wouldn’t players just change the source code to allow them to have an advantage over others?

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- Max Eliaser on July 17th, 2012 at 9:31 pm said:
  
  First of all, we’ve got a robust client-server model which prevents entire categories of cheats from being possible. Second of all, the other types of cheats (aimbots etc.) are impossible to prevent even with closed source. I know of just one verified instance of cheating in the last two years or so. I don’t think you can point to a single closed-source game with a track record that good.
  
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