A philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details.
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How can I get involved with open source game projects?
I have a limited experience in game development and would like to get involved with open source game project. Where should I look and how should I begin?
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Where can I find good (well organized) examples of game code?
Where can I find good (well organized) examples of game code? I'm hoping that I can pick up some organizational tips. Most examples in books are too short and leave out lots of detail for the sake of ...
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Interesting/Innovative Open Source tools for indie games [closed]
Just out of curiosity, I want to know opensource tools or projects that can add some interesting features to indie games, preferably those that could only be found on big-budget games.
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Most Needed Open Source Project
A few questions on the site have mentioned the need for more open source projects. I agree and wonder what frameworks should be developed.
I'll start the list.
A geometry kernel, including
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Where can I find fonts which I can distribute with an open source game?
I want to be able to release my game as open source, and I need to be able to distribute font files with my game. Where can I find fonts which I can use in this way, and what font licenses should I be ...
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Is there any way to earn money with an open source game?
I know FreeToPlay games are financed by advertisements and/or selling additional content, but what about an Open Source single player game to which several people have contributed? And how can a fair ...
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Pretty open source game/rendering engine?
It might be outside the domain of open source (as there isn't much in the way of open source games that would want/need to implement all these) but is there an existing open source game or rendering ...
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What is the best designed open source game engine to take example?
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find good (well organized) examples of game code?
I have coded several C++ games and now I'm building my own game engine and editor.
I have some doubts ...
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How to protect a developed game?
I have developed some small games which are my own creation and each is having different gameplay. Now i want to showcase it using the internet. But I'am a bit worried about
the concept getting ...
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Does using an licensed game engine prevent you from open sourcing a defunct work?
I'm curious as my previous company is asking us (people who developed the game) on what to do to the game since it's no longer financially viable.
My suggestion was to open source it so people can ...
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MUD source code
I haven't been able to find a lot of the old, open source mud source codes. I find the way they did things very applicable to text-based/browser based games, and I'd love to be able to skim through ...
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Power, achievement and affiliation games for psychology research project
For a psychology research project we're looking for short (ca. 5 minute) single-player games to observe people's basic motivation. We would like to ask people to list games that provide the closest ...
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How can non-indie devs stop reinventing the wheel?
It seems like the status quo in the games industry is to write most software in-house, maybe excluding the engine if you use one of the dozen or so big ones. Before working here I was mostly an ...
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Very simple open source games in various languages?
Are there any very simple open source games available just to demonstrate the basics of the programming techniques? Preferably something which fits in to a couple hundred lines of actual code. ...
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What's a good Open Source game to learn from?
I want to download the source code of an Open Source game, so I can get familiar with game architecture. Does any one know of a game with source code that's legible, and easily understandable?
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