The Open Wastes

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• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

The Open Wastes is an entirely open source game, made in Godot, and inspired by the Fallout franchise. It relies heavily on procedural generation to create a 3D post-apocalyptic world, which is explored by the player from a first-person perspective.

Source on GitHub.

Controls
ASWD + mouse. Esc to quit, once in the game world.

This is a very early demo!

• There is currently only one enemy type, and only one instance of this enemy spawns, for testing purposes.
• The world map is very limited, due to the effect on performance with increasing scale.
• The diversity of buildings in the game world is limited.

Known issues

• The shotgun monk character can float off the ground! If you can think of a solution, please let me know.
• The game has been developed on a Linux desktop and not yet tested on Windows or Mac machines.

Roadmap

• Creation of a community surrounding the project, interested in developing and modding several different branches.
• Independence from proprietary software: free and open-source forever.
• Procedurally-generated buildings with far greater diversity of layout, allowing for placement of interactive objects (loot chests etc.)
• Friendly NPCs / traders with a dialogue system supported by large-language models.
• World / player background / story.
• Loot and inventory system.

Discord server.


Dev blog
Dev blog 0 - from tiny acorns
Dev blog 1 - two out of three ain't bad
Dev blog 2 - building on stronger foundations
Dev blog 3 - a Fallout-inspired story

 

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[The_Courier]

Looks interesting. Sure I can't use a Xbox Pad? I'm not good playing with ASWD and mouse/trackpad

 

[Stevie_D]

Looks interesting. Sure I can't use a Xbox Pad? I'm not good playing with ASWD and mouse/trackpad

Fair point! I'll make a note to add keybinding switching to the options menu, in the next update.

 

[Stevie_D]

Latest dev blog up.

Shout out to NMA at the end!