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Is Open Source An Advantage For Game Developers?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 1, 2004 @01:01AM from the if-they-want-to-be-in-debian-it-is dept.

chas7926 writes "OSNews.com is running an article that claims that the open source development model is not a very effective way to develop high quality games. Even the exceptions are not much of a threat to major label products. Does open source development only make sense for products like web servers and operating systems?"

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Different Exceptions by Snowgen · 2004-09-01 01:08 · Score: 5, Informative

Frozen Bubble? nah...

My Exceptions would be BZFlag, Battle for Wesnoth, and FreeCiv.
Re:Costs by tc · 2004-09-01 01:13 · Score: 5, Informative

There are no "DirectX royalties". It's just like any other Windows API.

The only downside to using DirectX (which comes with a very mature SDK, samples, docs, and helper libraries these days) would be if you cared about porting to non-Microsoft platforms. This is, of course, a real consideration for some, but certainly not for all.