Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game
Posted on Jan 02, 2008 under Main |crush writes “The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry.”
I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won’t be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?) [+] games, linux, programming, apricot, blender (tagging beta)
[+] Games: Free Software FPS Games Compared 191 comments An anonymous reader writes “Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction.” Firehose:Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Gam by crush (19364)