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Open Sourced Christian games?// – William Sams

William Sams Junior Member Posts: 2 From: Fayetteville, NC Registered: 06-01-2003	Was sitting in church today thinking I've been spending too much time focusing my hobby on all things non-Christian. Then, it hit me: start making a Christian game. What I have been doing lately, though, is porting games over to the Dreamcast via SDL. I was wondering are there any open source Christian games at all? I can't find any on the net. Some of the retail Christian games look really, really good. Guess I'll be sticking my head in this community a little bit more ------------------ Storm! Studios
Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001	Don't know about open-source, but there were a bunch of people that had gotten together to build games as a team from here. It's called "Collective Works". Is that still alive anyone? Anyways, welcome aboard -Krylar ------------------
InsanePoet Member Posts: 638 From: Vermont, USA Registered: 03-12-2003	Wow, that's old.... the collective works :-p... what was once the 'collective works' is now Midnight Fire www.midnight-fire.org ------------------ "I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world!" -C. S. Lewis midnight-fire.org
AmazingJas Member Posts: 437 From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA Registered: 04-03-2003	Good on you William, and welcome. There are a couple of programming tools that make game creation fairly quick and easy, like: Blitz Basic/Blitz3d (2d/3d engine programmable in basic) Darkbasic (as above) Gamemaker (www.gamemaker.nl) (drag and drop 2d game creation, but also codeable, this one is free) Reality Factory (quake2 type open source engine, easy to use/map/mod) [This message has been edited by AmazingJas (edited June 02, 2003).]
Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001	quote: Wow, that's old.... the collective works :-p... what was once the 'collective works' is now Midnight Fire So, then, I'm assuming that you no longer need the messageboard area? -Krylar ------------------
William Sams Junior Member Posts: 2 From: Fayetteville, NC Registered: 06-01-2003	quote: Originally posted by AmazingJas: Good on you William, and welcome. There are a couple of programming tools that make game creation fairly quick and easy, like: Blitz Basic/Blitz3d (2d/3d engine programmable in basic) Darkbasic (as above) Gamemaker (www.gamemaker.nl) (drag and drop 2d game creation, but also codeable, this one is free) Reality Factory (quake2 type open source engine, easy to use/map/mod) ??? I'm not a newb. ------------------ Storm! Studios
Briant Member Posts: 742 From: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada Registered: 01-20-2001	quote: Originally posted by William Sams: I was wondering are there any open source Christian games at all? I can't find any on the net. Source code for Mack's "Eternal War" is available under the GPL, is that close enough to open source? You should contact him, he may be interested in having in ported to the Dreamcast. http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca/eternalwar/files.html ------------------
Mack Administrator Posts: 2779 From: Registered: 01-20-2001	Thanks for the plug BrianT, I find it a bit freaky that your avatar looks a tad like you. Course last time I saw you you didn't have the beard I think, so I'm not "100%" sure. Yeah you can check out the Eternal War source if you like, if you want to port it over to Dreamcast I think that's fine. Our aim is to try and release the source code for all our projects for people to mess with. Welcome to Christian Coders Network! Feel free to post your stuff, ask questions and have fun. I also can't seem to see your avatar picture, you might want to check the link on that. ------------------ It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing. http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca [This message has been edited by Mack (edited June 04, 2003).]
InsanePoet Member Posts: 638 From: Vermont, USA Registered: 03-12-2003	Krylar: Nope, havn't used it for a long time. William: Well, we are using Crystal Space, which is open source. Check out our site www.midnight-fire.org i need to update it some, but it's there. We could always use another coder. ------------------ "I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world!" -C. S. Lewis midnight-fire.org [This message has been edited by InsanePoet (edited June 04, 2003).]
Briant Member Posts: 742 From: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada Registered: 01-20-2001	quote: Originally posted by Mack: Thanks for the plug BrianT, I find it a bit freaky that your avatar looks a tad like you. Course last time I saw you you didn't have the beard I think, so I'm not "100%" sure. I used to have a goatee that sort of looked like that. I never thought about it, I just liked the "monk" motif. BTW, your avatar looks sort of like you too! Although last time I saw you, your head didn't glow in the dark. ------------------ [This message has been edited by BrianT (edited June 04, 2003).]
Mack Administrator Posts: 2779 From: Registered: 01-20-2001	quote: Originally posted by BrianT: I used to have a goatee that sort of looked like that. I never thought about it, I just liked the "monk" motif. BTW, your avatar looks sort of like you too! Although last time I saw you, your head didn't glow in the dark. Ha! Must be the veggies, my parents always told me when I was a kid that my eyes would glow in the dark if I ate my veggies, guess I did it a bit overboard? You probably remember me looking like this: Now I'm like this: ------------------ It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing. http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002	whoa... no way! what happened?!? haha, just kidding. though, I still can't see a resemblence... P.S. I kinda like your older avatar better, tho. ------------------ Fight(as in overkill) the Good Fight of Faith...
Mack Administrator Posts: 2779 From: Registered: 01-20-2001	I started to loose weight, alot of weight, then I started to get bald, so I shaved my head, oh yeah and I grew a goatee ------------------ It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing. http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002	That's cool! ------------------ Fight(as in overkill) the Good Fight of Faith...
videogameguy Junior Member Posts: 1 From: Registered: 06-05-2003	What is an SDL? How do you use this to port games to dreamcast?
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001	SDL cross-platform library for multimedia stuff. It's sorta like DirectX, except it can be used on many platforms. http://www.libsdl.org/index.php ------------------ There are only 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005	quote: Originally posted by William Sams: Was sitting in church today thinking I've been spending too much time focusing my hobby on all things non-Christian. Then, it hit me: start making a Christian game. What I have been doing lately, though, is porting games over to the Dreamcast via SDL. I was wondering are there any open source Christian games at all? I can't find any on the net. Some of the retail Christian games look really, really good. Guess I'll be sticking my head in this community a little bit more Funny he should mention that and we are doing a nice game with SDL 3 years later! ------------------ All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2 [This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited March 31, 2006).]
pigpen98 Member Posts: 41 From: Indiana Registered: 03-29-2006	who's doing a game with SDL? ------------------ "kinda makes ya wanna treat me with more respect, huh?"