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Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 14:16 UTC (Wed) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
In reply to: Linux Game Company Opens Doors by tajyrink
Parent article: Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Another very interesting game engine is Delta3D; that even gets U.S. funding. (Which I think is a great idea; the U.S. government should do more of this kind of thing.)

I think ransoming software is a very good idea. But the hostage has to be worth the money :-).


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Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 16:52 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

Wow, looks like some pretty impressive stuff is being done with Delta3D.  Too bad some of it
doesn't appear readily available to civilians.  (Granted, most of it's designed as training
aids rather than pure games, although no doubt there are plenty of us that would get a kick of
out of playing with the training versions.)

FlightGear (which somebody else mentioned above) is another package which has also been
incorporated into a number of other projects (either as the flight dynamics or the
visualization portion).

Those are great examples of what can be accomplished building on good engines with open
source, where you're not necessarily limited to whatever interface (if any) a proprietary
engine might offer.

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