Was id software the first company to open source their video games?
>>11061349Definitely not.Even earlier there were BASIC games distributed on magazines by printing the entire source code and the players type it back on their computers.
>>11061369How about real games?
>>11061349Maelstrom predates it by a few years.
>>11061373Your question was answered and your thread is retarded. You can fuck off now, zoomzoom.
>>11061369I prefer ASSEMBLER games
>>11062543That's some real fucking shit, man.
it was a real genius stroke to do it, though.the amount of gamer publicity and usage kept id in their mind and deprived other companies of revenue.
>>11061349While there were many games that went open source long before Id did it, but Doom and Quake are much more important as they established industry practices we still see today.
>another thread where a retarded doomquakefag thinks his sacred cow developer invented everything
>>11062156Maelstrom got a Linux port in 1995, but it wasn't GPL'd until 1999. If the 1995 Linux port were under a different open source license, then it would predate id open sourcing its games.
>>11061373They're real games, what, do BASIC code games suddenly not exist now?
Well technically you have all those DIY games that laid out the code for you to write down and mess with into a BASIC interpreter from european computer hobbyist magazines, but id open sourcing Doom was one of the bigger mainstream instances.
Doesn't Hack/Nethack count, or does it have to have an actual company or formal developer behind it?
Apogee had alot of freeware and shareware games back then too
>>11066191Thanks for the correction.
>>11066143>they established industry practices we still see todayi fucking wish, Rajeet
>>11066242But did they release source code?
>>11066150Now try pointing out that John Carmack hasn't produced anything of value in nearly 30 years.
>>11067480Rage was in 2011
11061373What a fucking retard.
>>11061349Doom was released under the GPL in 1999. I can't find an earlier example of a previously commercial game being open sourced.>>11061369That's source available, not open source.
>>11067503Did anyone really give a shit about Rage?
>>11067838nope
>>11067838it was a cultural landmark, anon. it was featured in an episode of breaking bad
>>11067838I cared
>>11067838me. It even got a sequel
>>11061349>Was id software the first company to open source their video games?>>11061373>How about real games?moron>>11067725>That's source available, not open source.literally open source. same levels of license faggotry too.>>11067838no.zoom zoom, zoomy zoomzooms.
>>11061349read the book Masters of DOOM. Not to downplay how talented some of the guys at ID were but most of what you find innovative was already there available to only the most diehard of nerds. It's just impressive they employed it on a mass scale in amazing packaging.
