Open Source Gaming

    • Brief history of my work, including the games I have published.
    • Id Software’s release of the Quake engine sources under the GPL, and it’s influence on open source gaming.
    • How using open source gaming engines can bring interest and new developers into the fold, further advancing the technologies.
    • The challenges of keeping up with commercial games, closing the technology gap.
    • Using open source tools to create game content, and supporting those formats in a gaming engine.
    • The rewards of sharing technology and how it can lead to better open source gaming engines.
    • With an open source engine to begin with, the first step was creating a game to run on it.
    • Improving the game renderer — taking 1997 technology into modern times, and the process involved.
    • Addressing the engine as a whole, it’s not just graphics that you have to evolve to create a viable modern game engine.
    • The importance of documenting your code so that others can use it in their engines, and how this can lead to improvements in your own game engine.
    • The challenge of pushing new boundaries, and how camaraderie in the open source gaming community can help your achieve your goals.
    • The gaming industry, including open source, is judgmental, listen to the critics.
    • Turn your hobby into a profit, ways an open source game can make money.
    • The technology gap is closing between open source and closed source commercial game engines, the open source credo is working.

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