PopCap Games Releases Open Source Framework

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 7, 2005 @07:23AM from the i-love-syndicate! dept.

2d is the new 3d writes "PopCap Games has Open Sourced the framework used to make their hit downloadable web games. From the press release: 'The PopCap Games Framework provides developers a quick and easy way to get their projects off the ground, allowing more time to be spent on game design instead of compatibility bugs and multimedia programming issues. For the first time, casual game developers will have access to a refined, reliable framework that has been tested in dozens of games played by millions of customers. ...The PopCap Games Framework is available now at developer.popcap.com. It currently supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP operating systems."

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Re:Cynical by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-07 12:27 · Score: -1, Troll

The cynic in me wants to find "the catch", so I looked up the license agreement and its the shortest, easiest to read most legitimate license agreement I've seen for something like this.

Perhaps the cynic in you, in fact everything in you, should just STFU.

Surprising how not everyone is a anal-retentive asexual moron like Torvland or Stullman, isn't it?

(Compare it to the "licence" of your favourite AOL-Netscape produced spyware toy-browser Firefox.)