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causesothere 2h ago

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.

aryx 39m ago

For the nostalgic, here is the 90's era playable also in the browser: https://aryx.github.io/ocaml-elm-playground/games/#first-per...

5- 16m ago

it has been somewhat recently re-released:

https://rebellion.com/games/battlezone-98-redux/

squarefoot 44m ago

It's inspired by BattleZone which I loved/hated back in the day at the arcade for being too hard. I never imagined I would become much later a regular BZFlag league player. Come take a look, the community shrank over the years but we're still having fun.

mactyler 2h ago

man, same, that game defined my childhood

pelagicAustral 1h ago

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

nullify88 1h ago

Eagles nest 1.

tikhonj 3h ago

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 2h ago

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

doctoboggan 2h ago

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.

stackghost 2h ago

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.

triyambakam 9m ago

Oh wow, I was on Hepcat too. That was a good one

great_tankard 2h ago

gg

hn_submit 2h ago

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

The Apocalypse map is still golden!

indigodaddy 1h ago

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

readthenotes1 1h ago

Everyone knows that unless a game is programmed with handcrafted machine code (assembly is a modern crutch for those who can't program of course) that it is simply not worth playing

Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser (github.com)