Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year

An anonymous reader writes "John Carmack just confirmed during his QuakeCon 2011 keynote that the source code to Doom 3 will be released this year. The source drop will follow the release of their Rage game in October. Carmack has also challenged other game developers to release their old source code."

Comments

Re:Still waiting on Commander Keen Source

[pak9rabid]

I'm impressed you even got that far with them.

Re:Old hardware

[TheRaven64]

It works faster on a modern operating system, because of optimisations in the libc. For those who haven't taken a look at it yet, the main render routine looks like this:

memset(frame_buffer, 0, frame_buffer_size);

Re:Still waiting on Commander Keen Source

[whoop]

Commander Keen is still all the Rage, and releasing it for free would cause a Quake to their business strategy. Oh, and CK is on sale on Steam today for $3.74 (and included in some multi-game packs). Releasing it now would just Doom their bottom line...