Cat Mother Open-Sources Game Engine

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 22, 2003 @04:45PM from the no-comment-from-dog-father dept.

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."

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Re:i hope other companies follow this path by Oddly_Drac · 2003-09-22 20:11 · Score: 2, Insightful

"my Faith in EA is damaged"

Seriously, if you had faith in EA Games, you'd be quite late in renouncing them now. They're rapidly becoming the most generic gaming brand on the planet.

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Oddly Draconis
Too cynical to live, too stubborn to die.
Anyone else see the irony in this? by madaxe42 · 2003-09-22 21:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

They've gone bust, and gone opensource. Since this, their site and product has probably received more interest than it ever has. This is an excellent business move... Expect these guys to produce The Next Big Thing(tm).
Kudos by Quill_28 · 2003-09-22 23:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

For releasing under the BSD license and not GNU.