Engoo

[leileilol]

EDIT: I'll make this short: Development has halted because . No SDL for you!

[LordHavoc]

Engoo is awesome.

[qbism]

We need a new site for OS devs to post all their great stuff. Then trollmods crap on it. Oops, it's already been done.

[Baker]

I thought the pic looked strangely familiar, but I wasn't sure why. +1 on near exact duplication even to scrag attack.

I wouldn't put much stock in what some random people in a free open source games forum say. Especially if they aren't developers or modders (or maybe they are? I dunno).

"Gamers" or people that like "free stuff" are as common as nickels and only slightly less common than people who have a pulse.

/One opinion, probably wrong.

[scar3crow]

I'm sad to hear this, and see that thread as well, Engoo is one of my favorite projects and I've loved watching it grow.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

That screenshot is amazing, reminds me of unreal.

I really wouldn't put too much stock on what those guys say over there, they seem to strike me as being more "ooo-look-at-the-pretty-gfx-gamers" rather than developers.

I especially find it rather ironic that they totally failed to realize that engoo is actually good for much more than "just playing quake". (god, just thinking about it makes me facepalm)

[leileilol]

[mankrip]

[qbism]

[Julius]

[mankrip]

[qbism]

[Baker]

[Julius]

Heh, I know people would pick on that half sentence when I wrote it... I almost removed it again but then left it in as a sort of bait

And the reaction actually proves my point...
I am not arguing that it doesn't make sense to to make a modernized software renderer (diversity is good as someone mentioned in this thread, even though in this case it is really focused on fringe uses like the Dreamcast homebrew scene etc.). And in any case, if the developer finds it interesting (or yes "fun") to work on such a software, who am I to question that?

What I am opposed to is the kind of circle jerk (yes another bait term ) many people around here and other places are indulged in. Self importance and demanding recognition (or otherwise stopping development) for projects that are (in the grander scheme of FOSS game development) at best "pet-projects" of those respective developers, will not get you much friends around the broader (e.g. more inclusive) internet communities like freegamedev.net.

The same goes for over the top copyleft/libre software advocates. No, we are not "hypocritical" FOSS evangelists, but rather those that look over the rim of our bathtub and realized that FOSS games/software can only have the intended impact if we reach a broader audience, and that those "extremists" are alienating that broader audience at an alarming rate.

[mankrip]