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Id Software and Activision Wolfenstein Source

Posted by timothy on from the surely-great-education-games-will-result dept.

An enthusiastic Anonymous Coward writes: "Id Software and Activision released the sources of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Single-player and multiplayer included. Unbelievable! Another great surprise from Id Software!" Update: 04/14 15:19 GMT by T : Note: don't get your hopes up -- these are the sources for the game code, not the engine.

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  1. for game mods by romey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    it looks like it's for game mods. not the full blown source.

  2. More uninformed / ambiguous news posting on /. by Aardappel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Unbelievable! Another great surprise from Id Software!"

    How so? this is _public_ source code, the one you make _mods_ with. It has been standard practice since quake (1) to release this freely and soon after the game has come out. No suprise whatsoever.

    Which is very different from id software releasing the _engine_ code to a game (as it has done for doom/quake/quake2), which would have been truely suprising in the case of rtcw :)

  3. I find it strange... by tangent3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...that they are releasing the full source codes for RTCW before the full source codes for Quake 3 Arena has been released, although Q3A has been released far earlier. I think these are just the source codes for Mods (RTCW Fortress / RTCW CounterStrike anyone?). Q3A has the Mod source codes released some time ago too.

  4. oops, already /.'ed by krs-one · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You can find a mirror at this location.

    -Vic

  5. Just for Mods by murat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The code is just for mods. It has been already done for Quake 3: Arena, etc.

    This is not like the release of the Quake 2 sources.

  6. Re:Advances. by Bob+The+Cowboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, goody. This means the market will soon be flooded with significantly more advanced and realistic deer-slaying simulators.

    Ma! Ma! Looky here! I railed me 'nother one uh them deers!

  7. Re:Low Quality by Schnapple · · Score: 0, Redundant
    enthusiastic anonymous coward
    Oooh, I know - let's all submit bullshit stupid stories as AC's and see what pointless drek we can get Slashdot to post!
    --

    Schnapple

  8. Re:true, however... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I agree. I think it's awesome that they have opened up _all_ the source for their older games, so enthusiasts can port them to other platforms and/or make modifications and additions.

    It's a common sense idea that I wish more companies would follow. Old products do not make the company any significant money (if at all), and releasing them gives the community a big bonus. Of course, most folks will still want the latest and greatest when it does come out. I suppose some companies might consider such an action impacting sales of their current products.

    I'm glad that id is willing to take that risk,

    I don't like id games, nor do I play them, but I like the idea of a company that doesn't bury obsolote code for no good reason.

    Now, if Microsoft would only release the source to Windows 3.1....

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