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August 05, 2004
Carmack: Quake 3 open source by end of this year
John Carmack posted on Slashdot that the Quake 3 engine source code will be available by the end of the year. This is in line with their current strategy of making older game engines available to the open source community. The creative assets are not usually released as such, just the engine.
"By the end of the year. There are still a lot of higher priority things, but it is coming soon.
Hopefully punkbuster will keep the source release from having any negative impact on the player community.
John Carmack"
This is a great tradition at id; which allows young game developers to learn from the experiences of the experts in the field. I wish more development houses would do the same.
Via boingboing.net
Posted by jb at August 5, 2004 10:36 AM
