Fri 29 Dec 2006
After work today a co-worker and I played a few rounds of OpenArena, a new playable game derived from Quake3 that is fully distributable under the GPL. The company that produced the original game Quake3, ID software, released the game engine but not the rights to the graphics. So the fine folks at OpenArena combined the donated Quake3 engine with their own graphics… and the combination makes for a very enjoyable game!
They have a game client for both Linux and Windows, and seems like maybe something for OSX too.
December 30th, 2006 at 12:27am
Oh man, that’s going to so kill my wrists.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:45am
Looks and plays reasonalby well…only thing is that it’s a bit, well…it’d be nice to see the open source movement put out original games, not clones. It’d be nice if they’d take this engine and build an entirely new game.
Still, if you ever want you’re ass handed to you, give me a buzz. ;-)
December 31st, 2006 at 10:25am
Seems like more of a job for open content people. Programmers usually don’t make the best graphic designers.