Jamtris wins MobileRated's Game Developer Contest
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| While many professional game companies participated in the contest,
| the winning entry was an open-source game, proving yet again the power
| of the open source movement. Open source software enables developerst
| o share source code and ideas, and collaboration enables rapid
| development cycles.
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http://www.prlog.org/10018098-jamtris-wins-mobilerated-game-developer-contest.html
Rleated:
Mods of 2006 - Player's Choice
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| 80,000 votes. 4,000 mods. Over the course of 2 months, gamers from
| across the globe came together to decide which mods rank as the
| epitome of what our hard working community can do.
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| [...]
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| 5th Place. CodeRED - Alien Arena
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| 4th Place. Nexuiz
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| 3rd Place. OpenArena
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| 2nd Place. Warsow
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| 1st Place. Tremulous
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http://features.moddb.com/287/mods-of-2006-players-choice/?fpage=3
http://tinyurl.com/2sqh34
Open Source cleans up!
Google Summer of Code supports open game developement
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| Some of the supported projects are related to linux and gaming.
| These projects include:
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| Thousand Parsec a framework for space strategy games, BZFlag, a 3D
| battle tank game, ScummVM, a software to run old adventure games
| and last but not least the two 3d Engines Crystalspace and OGRE
| offer a variaty of themes to work on for the three month period
| of the stipends.
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http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1984
Wikipedia Founder Launches "Open-Source Game Magazine"
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| Gamingwikia Wikia, the new project of Wikipedia founder Jimmy
| Wales, announced today the debut of gaming.wikia, described by
| the company as an "open-source magazine" about video games to
| which any user can add content.
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http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/03/wikipedia_found.html
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