Open-Source Cube FPS Game/Engine Updated

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."

Comments

Re:This isn't a real 3D engine.

[Drakker]

That is completly beyond the point. Cube's goal is to be FUN. Not to compete in the commercial games market.

It is real 3d, but to keep things simple, the rooms are limited to what you call 2.5D. That's why it playable even on old computers. If you want room over room, you can always make md2 models and insert them in your level, it works marvels and still looks good, if you are good with ligthning of course.

The working of the engine is actualy very clever, try editing for it, it's done in the game itself and it's very fast. I have contributed a couple of levels for this release and after having edited for Cube, I'd hardly go back to a "real 3d engine" because Cube is so much more FUN to edit for.

So, next time, before posting something like this, maybe you'd want to consider the actual goal of the project.