Cat Mother Open-Sources Game Engine

Mr.Oreo writes "According to Flipcode, Finnish videogame development company Cat Mother Ltd. has now closed its offices, but in their last meeting the company board decided to publish all company source code as open source. A large part of the game assets are also available. Published material includes a fully playable prototype of a 3rd person action/adventure game, and a commercial quality in-house 3D-engine (C++/DirectX9). The source code is published under the BSD license, and the content is published under the GPL license. Just downloaded the engine and snooped through it - it looks pretty complete, and definitely worth having a look at if you're a 3D code monkey."

Comments

Re:OS games

[rlowe69]

I hope they release their in-house documentation too.

This is a game development company. What documentation? ;)

Check out their news timeline

[stoborrobots]

what's funny is that the news on their homepage suggests that their company timeline was:

1. Get seed funding from Venture Capitalists
2. Become a registered Xbox developer
3. go bust!

So now their trying the slashdot principle:

1. Release all code as open-source
2. ???
3. profit!!!