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That's what I admire about John Carmack. He wants people to hack his games and do stuff with them. He pushes to release old engines as GPL (soon the Doom 3 engi
by nkassis 15y ago
That's what I admire about John Carmack. He wants people to hack his games and do stuff with them. He pushes to release old engines as GPL (soon the Doom 3 engine will be released, offering some real game code to study for people wanting to get into game development)
- grey 15y agoNotch has a similar attitude, as expressed at http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp, specifically "once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source."
- 0x0x0x 15y agoThe difference of course is that id has a track record.
- atomicdog 15y agoThe difference is id's sources aren't shitty Java applets that noone wants to look through ;) I kid, I kid...
- piaskal 15y agoId games have lot's of artwork, levels, etc. that is not released under GPL. In minecraft it's users that create the content. Id can release their engines under GPL without harming their sales.
- beagle3 15y agoThis comment would be meaningful when Minecraft has been out in the market for 3+ years.