4 ms·
Wow, a couple of years ago it would have seemed unthinkable that a company like EA would release some of their code as open source. Only very few major game com
by pmjordan 16y ago
Wow, a couple of years ago it would have seemed unthinkable that a company like EA would release some of their code as open source. Only very few major game companies released code back then (I can think of only id and Insomniac).
- teamonkey 16y agoThey opened up EASTL a while back too. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227... https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL
- maximilianburke 16y agoThat's not all of EASTL, unfortunately. Much of it is still behind closed doors.
- mikebabineau 16y agoSome of us our trying to turn that around. My studio, EA2D, has a lot of people from the startup space, so sharing is only natural. We have a small but quickly growing list of open source projects (many more in the pipeline): https://github.com/EA2D https://github.com/EA2D We also have an engineering blog: http://eng.ea2d.com/ http://eng.ea2d.com/ And we're hiring (drop me a line, mikeb@ea2d.com): http://ea2d.com/jobs/ http://ea2d.com/jobs/
- vitovito 16y agoIt took ages for us to get the approvals for it, but the Star Wars: The Old Republic web team can now push our patches and custom modules for Drupal back to that community, too.
- cgbystrom 16y agoOpen source at EA: http://gpl.ea.com/ http://gpl.ea.com/
- wwarneck 16y agoJacob Vorreuter has several projects open sourced at github that we used at Rupture (Electronic Arts.) https://github.com/jacobvorreuter https://github.com/jacobvorreuter (emongo, erlmc, dynamic_compile, etc.) Jake was a long time member of the Erlang team, and a lot of side projects were influenced by pain points from our day to day work.