Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game

crush writes "The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry."
I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won't be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?)

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Great fan of FlightGear myself

[smchris]

I say we build up the airports ala Second Life and party in the lounges! And, yes, you would have to actually fly to each airport and deplane in my vision.

The airports could become hubs into the cities. FlightGear has great potential to become a parallel earth so why not start populating it?

Re:There are Open Source games out there, but...

[krunchyfrog]

What?! No Nethack??

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Re:Apricot, eh?

[Shade of Pyrrhus]

Afterwards, they're going to take all of the projects and throw them in the Blender - Open Source Smoothies for everyone! So that's what OSS really stands for...

Re:Do we really need more FPS?

[ScrewMaster]

you probably need a level of team discipline and management that can only be established with regular paychecks to incentivize everyone involved.

Yeah well, and a few stock options wouldn't hurt either.

Re:Do we really need more FPS?

[mrchaotica]

it's 3:20AM here, I'm working on an open source game.

No you're not; you're posting on Slashdot!

Re:Do we really need more FPS?

[Anonymous Coward]

The type of game hasn't been decided yet. So where did you get the idea that it will be an FPS?

Free Playing System ?

Re:This project needs funding?

[Sensible Clod]

I don't know; it'd be easy to say that open source != free, but that'd be both glib, redundant and not answering the question I guess.ething or other?

I count myself fortunate to have a rather large vocabulary, but I still had to read that 3 times before I realized you weren't talking about GNU libs.