Egoboo: The Cute Way to Dungeon Role Play (O'Reilly)

[Posted March 14, 2003 by ris]

Egoboo is an open source dungeon crawling game. This O'Reilly article examines the project, its history, and its future. "Aside from the OpenGL and SDL APIs, the rest of the codebase is original and was written in C by the Bishop brothers. They did borrow the Quake II model format for game characters, however, to avoid the work of writing their own modeling program from scratch. An extra, obvious benefit is that this decision makes customizing Egoboo much easier: the mod community is full of people who are familiar with creating Quake II models."