I'm glad this info was posted on LWN. [LWN.net]

I'm glad this info was posted on LWN.

Posted Aug 6, 2005 19:08 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: I'm glad this info was posted on LWN. by dwheeler
Parent article: Nexuiz: Open source deathmatch (NewsForge)

I guess uniqueness qualifies for LWN's attention. I had no idea that Doom 3 had not already been networked, years ago.

Readers over 40 might be equipped to understand this: http://cantrip.org/gamers-desiderata.html

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I'm glad this info was posted on LWN.

Posted Aug 7, 2005 15:49 UTC (Sun) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]

Doom3 isn't open source... Yet... Given Carmack's history, though, there's
a high probability it WILL be one day... Already, Doom1/2 is, Quake1/2 is,
Wolfenstein3D is... And, Carmack has said he really wants to open source
Quake3 sometime RSN... So, this particular game in question is most
definitely NOT unique in being an open source first-person shooter that runs
on Linux... Linux has had FPS games running on it for as long as they've
existed, really... And, the inventor of the genre (id Software) has both
ported all of their commercial games to Linux, as well as eventually open
sourced them, after a few years... So, the talk about Linux not having many
FPS games available is highly strange, since that's really the ONE genre
that Linux has had an overabundance of, if anything...

I'm glad this info was posted on LWN.

Posted Aug 8, 2005 9:19 UTC (Mon) by pontus (guest, #3701) [Link]

'inventor of the genre' is a bit too much credit to id. Technically, Atari's Battle Zone from 1980 is a first-person shooter.

I'm glad this info was posted on LWN.

Posted Aug 8, 2005 10:23 UTC (Mon) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]

I don't really think it's too much credit... Sure there may have been
previous games with a first-person perspective, and pretty much ALL games
tend to boil down to shooters of some sort... But, honestly, nothing
I'm aware of pre-Wolf3D is at all comparable to it and all of the games that
came after it... Ie: you're in the role of a lone gunman, running around
a map on foot, trying to survive, and seeing everything from the perspective
of the character... That's the modern first-person shooter genre, and I'm
really not aware of any pre-id games that fall into that category... Even
if there are, then id are at least the popularizers of the genre, if not
its inventors... Either way, they are the spiritual fathers of the genre...