During his keynote speech this afternoon at QuakeCon 2011, id Software’s John Carmack revealed that the source code for Doom 3 would be released to the public later this year, sometime after the October release of Rage.
id Sets Quake 3 Source Code Free Post-Rage
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22 responses to “id Sets Quake 3 Source Code Free Post-Rage”
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Luke
Not really a fail as Quake 3 used the same engine but its normally referred to the Doom 3 engine.
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Chazz
Quake 3 used idTech 3, Doom 3 used idTech4.
“while id Tech 4 contains code from id Tech 3, much of it has been rewritten.”
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Luke
*facepalm, yep you are absolutely right, this is a fail.
I see a game of penalties is in order, what shall be my punishment?
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Chazz
The shame of making a mistake on the internet is punishment enough. Now run along you cheeky little scamp.
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SOX
I’ll give it to you before Rage comes out: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Quake-3-Source-Code/1124550740/1
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Luke
Hmm… that’s weird, I think they are still using the idtech4 engine with Prey 2 coming out next year, I thought Brink would have been the last idtech4 game.
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Richard
I’d assume it’s highly modified for Prey 2, but either way open-sourcing an engine doesn’t make a commercial game any less valuable.
Torchlight uses OGRE, and that’s open source/community developed.
Remember that the CoD series uses a modified idTech3 – Carmack makes incredible software and it’s no surprise that his work can be modified to suit more advanced purposes.-
Luke
You are not wrong there, as i said before that the idtech4 engine is still being used to make commercial video games.
But i suspect that the engine is now going to be open source, Prey 2 will be the last game to use that engine.
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Someone Else
It’s going to be interesting to see what the community can come up with using the engine. I wonder if we’ll see something along the lines of Urban Terror or True Combat: Elite, only updated for a more modern engine.
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The Insufferable Señor Steengo
I don’t even think they actually play the games. They just say they do, then go off and smoke a big fat doobie or whatever.
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Paul
Ah Quake 3, what an epic fast paced shooter it was. I can’t help but feel it’s far too inferior these days to care for.
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Cameron
What???? So the Quake 3 engine is free, or the Doom 3 engine? Bit of a difference there! Perhaps a few more details, like oh I don’t know, an article rather than a sentence would clear things up!
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Gordon Pedersen
Does Kotaku AU not get Kotaku US’s edits? Looks like they fixed the title in the US version, but we don’t get the update?
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picky
agree should have been an easy pickup, unless kotaku lovin on all the haters these days?
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