https://www.gamedate.org/

I know I can Google it, but uhhhhh I’m lazy and wanna help drive Lemmy engagement:

Wasn’t there a multiplayer Resident Evil game wherein you could get bit and become a zombie? But like… it was ahead of its time kinda because you needed 4(?)+ PlayStations on a LAN to play it?

I remember it looked fun, and iirc reviews said it was fun, but they gave it low reviews ‘cause of the hardware hurdle.

Anyways… did anyone ever mod that into a playable, non-LAN experience one can enjoy from their PCs? If so… I’d totally put up a game date on here for that.

I might go search for my own answer and edit it into this if my phone doesn’t die.

Edit: looks like there is a fan-made pc port of it, but getting it setup looks like a bit of a project. hmmmmm

This is cool, maybe I can find a crew for Quake 3 instagib freeze tag with grapple hook enabled.

As an aside...If I wanted to host an event like this specifically for fediverse, where should one post it?

Let's say I pre-pack a portable archive (so Linux users can easily just add the exe to Faugus/Lutris whatever too) for Halo Custom Edition with a bunch of maps and throw a dedi server up for a week as an example.

So not the .world instance which lied about allowing piracy after announcing they would IIRC.

Damn, this looks good! This is a huge coincidence: just a few days ago, I was hoping that something like this existed when another thread reminded me of Unreal 2's long-dead multiplayer mode.

Anyone gotten any good games out of this?

This is awesome. Love the UI.

A cool bonus with something like this is finding games you never knew about. I already found a few scrolling through the lobbies.

Only downside is with no sign up requirement you're gonna get a lot of racist basement troll comments, which I've already seen a few. But that's the trade off for not having a sign in requirement, which I prefer for something like this.

Aww man, I was hoping to find a session of FFXI. Haven't played that in ages.

This is neat!

Neat, let's see if somebody wants to play Jump Ultimate Stars 🤣

Pass. It's 4chan-/Xbox-Live-Generation Central. I do like the site design though. So thumbs up on that! It looks like the old Steam UI.]

Edit: I'm old I'll see myself to the glue-factory.