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I was bored one night and popped in one of my favorite 3D shooters, Blood II, and after playing a bit, figured I'd check the site for patches and whatnot....
To my surprise, the company Monolith has placed the full source code of the game.
I'm talking both Client and Company versions of the code....
Those interested, check it out Here
(Maybe more gaming companies will place their codes on the web...?)
Wow
'Thats one small step for man, And one giant leap for open-source'
Whats that mean? isn't it kinda like a 'who cares'? thing?
Eer....
Open Source means that anyone who understands the code can modify it to the way the programmer see's fit..
Take for example the Original Doom...
If I had the source code, I'd fix it up so that we can play team games with CTF options...
(Something ZDoom never had.... but they do have jump :))
Those who have played Dakatana know that the AI of your partners are really dumb and have to go back in the level to find them stuck behind a barrel or something...
With the source code, you modify it to your liking, making the AI better...
It's also useful to fix small clitches that major companies seems to always overlook, even with their patches....
The Linux community is founded around the Open-Source idea....
This was brought to my attention by Twisted.
Although the company advertises their availability of open source, they do not however have a working link to the data...
I wrote an e-mail inquiring about this and will let others know...
Those who want to know first hand, here's the addy: [email protected]
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....kind of like M$ releasing the source code to Windows 3.1 (or maybe even earlier)........it appears to be a gift but it's just a way to put off any other requests that might actually be useful with something that has no point now.......
Source code is good! Any code you can get your hands on you can potentially learn from. So it's never 'useless'.
well this isnt the first game to do that...the quake source was released a long time ago...
I did not know that...
Thanks for the .info
I love open source.. haleiluhia!(or however you spell it).. im glad they made it open source to all of us so we can make mods and stuff or whatever
yeah the doom code is around somewhere hehe and also rtcw code is around as well i saw it on some web page somewhere so im sure you can find it
but i think they relese the source so that modders find their life 100X easiser
RiOTEr
http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/files/files.shtml
i found it after a bit of searching
Thats neat. Never thought many big companies would show a source.
It has it's drawbacks. Apparently it allows people to create cheats and stuff more easily. But the benefits are great. Releasingthe game open source can really keep a game community alive! aka as quake :)
Something that might interest some of you: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/index.html -- Eric S. Raymond has a few essays on open source there, including one called "The Case of the Quake Cheats".
Yeah I download the Castle Wolfenstein source code, well, started downloading it. Then I realised that I just wasn't arsed...
jethro: gotta be a Big source code...
The Lith company already got back to me...
They said the sites are under maintenance and gave me an ftp link
ftp://ftp.lith.com/pub/blood2/
It is true that the open-source makes it easier on others to make mods and so, but it also gives the lesser public a chance to understand (I guess...)
as sombody said before, the problem is that anybody and their mother can easily make cheats for it now...but its still damn cool of them to do that...lets people see the inner workings and maybe get started learning how to make their own games :-D
isn't giving away the source, the same as giving away the game? that can't be Profitable....
Noia: companys tend to only release source long after they are going to be getting any sales revinues.
Not necessarily. It depends on a few things like whether the game is still selling and what you need to compile the source. Also, what lisence they release it under is pretty important.
Cheers,
cgkanchi
All the games mentioned in this tread have long run their course on the market....
It is nice to see how the game was working (for those who can understand) and learn from it.
Anybody interested in making a game would be more than extatic about looking at another's code, to compare, "borrow", and correct....