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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I actually have noticed something. Being in college in the CS dep, the people who want to make games and are big gamers tend to use windows and know very little about how their system works. They are usually very inventive and with the training they get I have no doubt they will be excellent game designers, but they are just not playing in the same arena as most of the OSS people. Likewise, most of the OSS people I meet are not big gamers and have pretty much 0 interest in devoting their time to creating a really great game.
To me, this whole argument about the OpenSource model being good or bad for games is useless and has nothing to do with why there arn't many great OpenSource games. Its just simply that most Open Source programmers don't want to make them.