20 points indigodaddy 2 hours ago 11 comments

tikhonj 1 hour ago | parent

Oh man, there's a real hit of nostalgia. I played BZFlag a whole bunch back in middle school and high school, and it was one of the first places where I got involved in the community at all (mostly hanging around some phpbb forums!)

Good times.

I don't remember too much of what I did, but I made a couple of maps one of which was hosted on a server for a week or something. It wasn't especially good, but it was a pretty amazing experience that somebody else thought something I made was good enough to try out, and that I could log into a "real" server and see it in action :P

Plaastix 1 hour ago | parent

Wow same! I'm so amazed to see this on HN. One of the few amazing open source multi platform games

causesothere 1 hour ago | parent

For a second I thought this was that 90s era game about the space race where you play a tank pilot on the moon fighting the USSR in a first person rts.

I'm sure this game shares some DNA or history, but man, big nostalgia hit.

mactyler 55 minutes ago | parent

man, same, that game defined my childhood

nullify88 31 minutes ago | parent

Eagles nest 1.

pelagicAustral 12 minutes ago | parent

Same here... probably playing at the same time as Heavy Gear, Mortyr and Ghost Recon

doctoboggan 1 hour ago | parent

I played this game a lot, and it was somewhat responsible for me learning the linux server environment. I scrounged together a computer from my friend's dad's old parts bin, installed ubuntu on it, and then built a BZFlag map and shared it with my friends. I still remember the feeling of seeing someone I didn't know joining my game.

great_tankard 56 minutes ago | parent

gg

stackghost 44 minutes ago | parent

I had so many sweaty sessions on the Hepcat pillbox server, back in the day. No jumping, no superflags, CTF. Super high skill ceiling. That was some of the best gaming.

hn_submit 40 minutes ago | parent

This is a slop port to TypeScript / JavaScript? The original code was written in C++.

The Apocalypse map is still golden!

indigodaddy 28 minutes ago | parent

Looks like Tim Riker is driving it. He's been the main maintainer and name behind BZFlag ever since I can remember..