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Open-Source Cube FPS Game/Engine Updated

Posted by simoniker on from the bang-bang dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a new release of the open source multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter Cube available on the official site. According to the site, this update, which has freely downloadable 'Win32/MacOSX/Linux/LinuxPPC clients and Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD servers' includes 'lots of new great SP [single player] and DM [deathmatch] maps, new textures, mapmodels, a completely new soundtrack yet again, and a variety of code improvements such as better animation.' - the history document has more info on the changes."

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  1. platforms by dingd0ng · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How come this game that is open source, with what I have to think are fewer financial or programming resources than for-profit games, can manage to release a game for 4 platforms? For most games, you get a PC version, and maybe a Mac version or a Linux version significantly later. I know cross platform games exist, but I don't think I've ever heard of a release like this one.

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  2. Re:funny by silverfuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anybody see the need (well, want) for a real open source FPS engine? People could build their own maps for it to start out with, teams could build entire games based upon it...

    Well, just an idea anyway...

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