uDevGames Source Code Available 17
Geert Poels writes "Kiki the Nanobot was the deserved winner of the uDevGames Mac Game Programming Competition. Entrants had to submit their game along with its source code. Provided with open source licenses like MIT, GPL, ... and written using OpenGL, some games will prove a fairly easy port. The source code to the 41 entries have been prepared and are being made available for download. Last week, GameSpy made a round-up of '02 Mac gaming by publishing a 2-page editorial 2002: The Year of the Mac Gamer."
Black Shades (Score:5, Informative)
Good Stuff (Score:1)
Check it out, it's a nice break from all the arcade games out now..and getting the code is a nice bonus.
kiki (Score:2)
Further info and clarification (Score:3, Informative)
Games? On my Mac? (Score:1, Insightful)
Given that the Mac is now a platform that gamers have almost completely abandoned, it's not surprising that there isn't much excitement about this contest.
Nothing really new has happened in the world of gaming in the last three years anyway, except for maybe NWN. Now that Spring is here, I reccomend going outside instead.
Games On my Mac? YES (Score:1)
About 32,000 Mac users downloaded Antack!
Another 50,000 PC users have played it since.
The excitement about the contest has doubled in a single year. 20 games in 2001, 41 games in 2002.
To all critics of uDevGame, let's see you do something more than troll message boards.
Where's your source code?
Where's your product?
Let's see it.
open source games are kind of like socialism (Score:2, Insightful)
i've not been to impressed with many uDevGames. i think maffia is the only one, and that's just amusing. a lot of the rest (including that nanobot one) are okay at best. maybe i'm spoiled by consoles and commerical games, but the graphics on all of them are pretty lame. open source may be a great way to make everyday applications, but not really a good way to make a game, at least a commercial-quality game. the resources just aren't available. sur
Re:open source games are kind of like socialism (Score:2, Interesting)
Clearly you have totally missed the point. This was a 3-month make-a-game contest in order to get people to be creative and contribute to the community. Did you try Astro Squid? Or Raptor? If you are prejudiced against 2D action games, well, that's one thing, but the graphics quality of those is quite high.
Now, Mac and other game developer
Re:open source games are kind of like socialism (Score:1)
Open Source doesn't mean free... (Score:1)