Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment

An anonymous reader writes "REMIX THIS GAME is an experimental game design contest where participants can re-mix and re-cycle my free-software self-published PC game, XONG. XONG is available under permissive licenses allowing remixes and derivative works of the code, graphics, sound effects, and music—even for commercial use. The source code license is the GNU GPL Version 3, and the media is covered by the Creative Commons BY-SA license. No special software or programming experience are needed—XONG has been packaged up so that you can just download the game and edit the graphics/code/music/sounds in place, and re-start the game to see your changes. Plus, it is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, so you can remix it on whichever OS you use, using whatever programs you like."

Comments

Re:How is this different from the mod scene?

[RobVB]

Is it on slashdot because it is news, or is it news because it's on slashdot?

This discussion is now about philosophy.

Re:How is this different from the mod scene?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hitler also had a philosophy.

Check and mate.

Well, this match is over. God wins!

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

have you seen it running?
man, that game is operating in like 7-dimensions - yet without 'height', concurrently in multiple parallel-universes - with grandfather paradox feedback - before, after and even "word doesn't yet exist" the original causation event. my friend played a full game (no trainer) the other week, he finished 106 years ago with a top score of "japan"

Re:Cool

[Miseph]

Yeah, maybe he should make the code available to the whole world and invite people to change the graphics and sounds.

Come to think of it, I think I remember seeing a story not too long ago about something like that...