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XreaL will be a non-commercial multiplayer only first person shooter based on a heavily modified Quake 3 Arena engine (id Tech 3). The aim is to push the rendering technology until it can be compared with current commercial titles and then to produce a playable Total Conversion.
Will development tools be included so we can build our own games?
It already contains all tools required for making a game from scratch.
I am considering doing my Msc in Computer Media, specifically game development. I have a background in physics and mathematics, but not programming. Would you consider the Xreal engine to be an ideal base for a two-year project on game development? I want to work with open source software and become a part of the community.
You only need to care about the game logic code which is not bigger than the old Q3A SDK. However it was never something for novice programmers. The only good thing is that you don’t have learn C++. You only need C which is way easier.
> The only good thing is that you don’t have learn C++
No. Object oriented languages are easier, the aim is to delegate the work to objects, so the work (and responsabilities) is divided and the final mental scene is cleaner and easier for the programmer .
I agree that OOP is easier but C++ is not. C++ can do almost everything but nothing really clean compared to newer languages like Java or C#. If you get a group of C++ programmers then it is very likely that they don’t understand all code of their team mates. You don’t have those problems with newer languages.
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[quote]If you get a group of C++ programmers then it is very likely that they don’t understand all code of their team mates[/quote]
As a C++ Programmer, I have to deny that
Anyway, great project. Very impressive.
Umm hey guys I have tried to check out the source from svn i gen an error about a directory not being under svn’s control.
The source doesnt compile with make and the readme says to run scons I find no scons anywhere in the XreaL directories