Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Tzafrir Rehan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Oron Peled > wrote: > > On Friday, 18 בSeptember 2009 16:50:38 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Since a typical game nowadays costs a lot of money to develop, > and requires > > the collaboration of many peopl

Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Friday, 18 בSeptember 2009 16:50:38 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Since a typical game nowadays costs a lot of money to develop, and > requires > > the collaboration of many people, it seems unlikely that we will see many > > open-source games tha

Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 18 בSeptember 2009 16:50:38 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Since a typical game nowadays costs a lot of money to develop, and requires > the collaboration of many people, it seems unlikely that we will see many > open-source games that are up-to-par with commercial offerings. Rubbish. I can st

[Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Someone emailed me in private and said that "you don't want to mention open source gaming. It's a sad joke." and other stuff like that. I'd like to mention some reasons for why I think this is largely the case. Reason: Proprietary Games are OK. --- If yo