Linked by Adam Geitgey on Tue 31st Aug 2004 20:12 UTC
Despite the impressive list of achievements of open source software, it can be argued that there have not been any world-class games created under the open source banner. Sure, several old games like Doom and Quake have been gifted to the open source community, but there are no comparable original creations in this area. One should not expect this situation to change anytime soon, because the open source development model does not make sense for game development.
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The author of the article and everybody else seems only talking about shooting games and similar ones. I agree that for those games the OSS may not be the best model, but there are other games. For example, consider flight simulators. There are a lot of them and they are very good. Just to list some:
www.flightgear.org
www.web-discovery.net
www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html