Ryzom is still made by a company, and companies require money to work. If the code comes with a purchase that's perfectly fine, because you'll get both the game and a way to modify it.<br> <br> Games that have been heavily modded in the past (Half-Life 2, for example) were built with ways to get to the code, intentionally or not. This will be one of the first times that a game has built-in access to the code.<br> <br> However, this whole experiment hinges on whether or not the game is any good. If it's not, interest could die out quickly despite the setting of a radical precedent.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Luke Benstead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kazade@gmail.com">kazade@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">> Who is volunteering to rewrite their game engine from scratch to get it<br> > running with OpenGL, OpenAL, GStreamer, etc? Who is volunteering to add<br> > features to Blender to support the features of their proprietary media<br> > formats?<br> <br> </div>Well, no-one yet since it was only just released, but at least now the<br> opportunity exists.<br> <br> Luke.<br> <br> P.S. Anyway, anyone taking that on would be better placed using an<br> existing engine like Ogre and Irrlicht and porting the game logic to<br> it, rather than rewriting their engine from scratch.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Ubuntu-news-team mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>