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At the QuakeCon 2007, John Carmack, the lead graphics engine developer at id, said to LinuxGames: "I mean, I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will ...
- 07-21-2009 #1Linux Enthusiast
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Doom 3 engine will be open sourced, maybe in 2009!!!
At the QuakeCon 2007, John Carmack, the lead graphics engine developer at id, said to LinuxGames: "I mean, I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source." And like its predecessors, John Carmack has said that id Tech 4 will be released as open source.
I can't find the original statement of John Carmack, I found this on Wikipedia and a few other sites.
This is the best gaming news we 've heard in years. Imagine all the nice but graphically outdated Linux FPS being ported to Doom 3 engine!!!!!
They will totally rock; just compare the 2 images, the difference is chaotic!!!
Alien Arena 2009 vs Doom3
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They did release many other major engine sources as copylefted Free Software, so we can be reasonably confident that Doom3 will face the same fate.
I am puzzled about how you got the number 2009 though. Or was that a big "maybe"?Debian GNU/Linux -- You know you want it.
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The date is not definite, I guess it will be a bit after Doom 4 with the new idTech5 engine is released. 2009 is speculated in the wikipedia article.
I can't wait for the idTech4 versions of every Linux FPS!!
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