Feature: Finding Success Through Open Source Game Development

(from Gamasutra...)

In a new Gamasutra feature, contributor Michael Thomsen looks at the sometimes surprising direction game development can take once its opened up to a group of excited enthusiasts and modders. Thomsen goes all the way back to the early '90s, looking at the surprisingly robust development of open-source, top-down action game Crossfire, with volunteer modders taking the simple title in many unique directions over the last two decades. "There are really only so many spells, ...



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