Game news

A while back there was an uproar when Dave Perry of Shiny Entertainment said he would patent the 3D algorithms used in his next game Messiah. Well... he got slammed by the games developing community, as he richly deserved. Many pointed out that not only were his techniques NOT novel, but also that his claim that "Patents are more universal and more respected than copyrights" did not hold water: only a few countries (US and Japan) allow the patenting of software. Anyway, the July print edition of Game Developer's Mag now reports that Dave Perry will not after all seek a patent.

On a more open note, 47-tek is releasing the source code to its game TEAM 47 GoMAN. It is Direct-X based, but there are tons of people trying to port Direct-X, for instance to GGI. From the features description, there seems to be some nifty code in there.