Comment Re:Unreal Engine 4 (Score 1) 485
Laser Arena has not been forgotten by the Q1 modding community. Although their crimes are not exactly what you would call heinous (or even crimes, possibly), nobody was happy about what happened. It was bad news in the middle of the blissful orgy of the Q1 source release.
Another Quake-based game was commercially released more recently, although it was under the GPL license. Unfortunately there were issues this time too, mainly concerning non-original content (models used in previous free mods) and the, how do you say, stiffing of many of the people who put time and effort into the game.
If you look at everything though, many enjoyable projects (some of them pretty vast partial or total conversions) have been created using the source, although you could say the community and fanbase is a 'niche' one. If you're looking for the next big game, maybe it won't be on the old Quake engine. But modding is popular, and releasing the engine source is a great way to keep em' rolling.
Another Quake-based game was commercially released more recently, although it was under the GPL license. Unfortunately there were issues this time too, mainly concerning non-original content (models used in previous free mods) and the, how do you say, stiffing of many of the people who put time and effort into the game.
If you look at everything though, many enjoyable projects (some of them pretty vast partial or total conversions) have been created using the source, although you could say the community and fanbase is a 'niche' one. If you're looking for the next big game, maybe it won't be on the old Quake engine. But modding is popular, and releasing the engine source is a great way to keep em' rolling.
