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It's awesome to see free software games being made, and it's pretty cool that someone decided to reimplement one of the best open world games made. Finally I mi
by cyphar 10y ago
It's awesome to see free software games being made, and it's pretty cool that someone decided to reimplement one of the best open world games made. Finally I might be able to play it on my GNU/Linux machine.
- mynameislegion 10y agoThis is only a free software game engine, not a free software game.
- cyphar 10y agoHowever, they plan to expand the free software editor to the point where you could create fully free game assets. So while it doesn't have that _yet_, it's on the pre-1.0 roadmap.
- a3_nm 10y agoYou can already play Morrowind in GNU/Linux using Wine. It works fine except for some minor glitches.
- cyphar 10y agoEmphasis on the words free software. Games are very under-represented in the free software world.
- Narishma 10y agoOnly the engine is free software. The game data is proprietary.
- cyphar 10y agoTrue. However, OpenMW has a game editor and the 1.0 roadmap states they want to make the creation of games using the engine doable without requiring any of the proprietary assets from the original game. I expect this will take a while, but you can already create maps without needing all of the "game creation" functionality -- and I have no doubt someone will make a clone of the original once the editor is up to snuff.