The Open Source Rebellion

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • AquilaPhasmas

    #1

    The Open Source Rebellion

    In the eyes of the corporate world, kids can never make a difference, especially two normal high school students from an average American town. My fellow gamers, the corporate world is wrong. We are the fonudation for our generation. We are a legion of gamers concieved at the peak of technological advancement. This is our generation, our time, and we need to take control of it.

    The average gamer spends $1,000/year on games, gaming equipment and gaming literature. More enthusiastic gamers might pay as much as $5,000+. Once, the gaming industry cared. They created games for the enjoyment of fans, they listened to their communities and improved upon their games as suggested. In no way am I casting slander remarks at these corporate gaming companies but they have lost sight of the true spirit of gaming.

    Many communities have grown sour due to poor creator involvement. We will not be like this. This is a gaming community for the gamers, by the gamers.

    How do we ever hope to accpomlish this?

    The OSR is a gamming community based solely on the contributions of its fans and patrons. Development specialists are encouraged to donate, not money, but game peices. Maps, models, skins, code, storyline you name it, we need it. Be part of this rebellion, its a once in a lifetime chance to make a difference. I am sure there are some who would easily dispute that with, "Its just the internet, how does this make a difference?"

    My friends, we live in a technologicaly centered time. Walk around your house and count how many high-tech devices you have. The computer that you are reading this on now is one. The internet is the new stage for rebellion. We are the NetGeneration.


    We are an open source gaming development community. We create games based on an under development engine called the "Rebellion" Engine (c) 2005. All games are open source, free and modable and are created from contributions from developers all around the world. Please note that we have a professional site and forums underway and hope to see you soon. Post a comment or two on the blog.
  • AquilaPhasmas

    #2
    Re: The Open Source Rebellion

    At least pretend to be interested...were all about open source and offer tips and tricks on how to mod games and give props to people like EA and Valve that let us mod.

    Comment

    • alkajazz

      #3
      Re: The Open Source Rebellion

      Im so interested

      Comment

      • AquilaPhasmas

        #4
        Re: The Open Source Rebellion

        Yay bad acting. But seriously nobody's interested? We're changing the world people. Developing top of the line games for free?

        Comment

        • Megaraptor

          #5
          Re: The Open Source Rebellion

          You'll need a way to make a living someday. I mean, open source is great in theory but all the free time of the world's best computer minds can't even make a decent internet browser (Firefox sux).

          Keep going though, i'm just saying that you'll need a way to gain some revenue if you want some really good stuff.

          Comment

          • Elxx
            Member
            • Apr 2005
            • 941

            #6
            Re: The Open Source Rebellion

            Originally posted by Megaraptor
            I mean, open source is great in theory but all the free time of the world's best computer minds can't even make a decent internet browser (Firefox sux).
            Could you base that statement on something? Open source is great, in fact the Firefox Foundation is making loads of money from just donations.

            Comment

            • imported_bigpappa
              Member
              • Oct 2006
              • 2159

              #7
              Re: The Open Source Rebellion

              is there a website?

              Comment

              • Scoobing

                #8
                Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                Hmmm. Well there's that blog link at least in the first post.

                Comment

                • AquilaPhasmas

                  #9
                  Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                  A professional PHP based website is in the process of creation but right onw we have the blog and some crappy free forums here.

                  Comment

                  • glasseye

                    #10
                    Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                    Originally posted by AquilaPhasmas
                    Yay bad acting. But seriously nobody's interested? We're changing the world people. Developing top of the line games for free?
                    im sure its very good and all that but ppl wont give a damn until you make a game worth playing and then they will have all been w/ you from the start.

                    Originally posted by Elxx
                    Originally posted by Megaraptor
                    I mean, open source is great in theory but all the free time of the world's best computer minds can't even make a decent internet browser (Firefox sux).
                    Could you base that statement on something? Open source is great, in fact the Firefox Foundation is making loads of money from just donations.
                    because everybody knows that internet explorer is teh roxorz. /sarcasm

                    Comment

                    • AquilaPhasmas

                      #11
                      Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                      Thx Scoobing. Both for not locking the thread and keepin it clean. We just posted some simple stuff on the fourms:



                      We REALLY need devs. Especially coders. We found an excellent game engine called the Torque engine and an Indie license is $100 so I'm getting my school to pay for a few licenses. After that the way we will pay for the SDKs is we will set up a kind of pot. Like people donate and out of that we pay for the licenses for people to help.

                      Comment

                      • DrunkenPirate
                        Ascended
                        • Mar 2005
                        • 4210

                        #12
                        Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                        Thread edited and moved to the Gaming discussion forum.

                        Comment

                        • AquilaPhasmas

                          #13
                          Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                          K thx.

                          Glasseye I understand that but like we need some people to kind of "prime the pump" so to speak. We also need some people to contribute different parts of the game or like suggestions for it. If you could just sign up and post something like, "SOunds like a good idea." Or anything really I mean if maybe some1 good with photoshop could make some cool icons for items or something.

                          W/e floats ur boat.

                          Comment

                          • GFree

                            #14
                            Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                            Firefox is excellent, but even though it is free it DOES have financial backing from the Mozilla foundation. I'm up for Open Source games, but I also like games like Half-Life and I doubt Valve could do what they do for free/donations alone.

                            Comment

                            • AquilaPhasmas

                              #15
                              Re: The Open Source Rebellion

                              Originally posted by GFree
                              Firefox is excellent, but even though it is free it DOES have financial backing from the Mozilla foundation. I'm up for Open Source games, but I also like games like Half-Life and I doubt Valve could do what they do for free/donations alone.
                              Please ex-nay on the turning the thread into Firefoz vs IE thread...ay. Yeah, we are making the final product available for download. You can buy an edition on 3d for $45.00 which has extra bonuses like extra starting cash, special edition items and ETC.

                              If people can just like join to help us out and stuff itd be totally appreciated.

                              Comment

                              Working...