ioquake3 news
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ioquake3 and OS X Mountain Lion
The latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion has been available for a little while and we have now confirmed that ioquake3’s latest SVN (revision 2306) compiles and runs smoothly on it. If you already have ioquake3 installed on your intel Mac running 10.6 or greater please try a test build: It should run fine under…
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Quake 3 Source Code Review by Fabian Sanglard
Fabian Sanglard: I was particularly impressed by : The virtual machines system and the associated toolchain that altogether account for 30% of the code released. Under this perspective idTech3 is a mini operating system providing system calls to three processes. The elegant network system based on snapshots and memory introspection. Check out his entire code review…
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Open Source Tools for Game Development
Ryan spoke again at Flourish, and here’s the video: Notes are here: http://icculus.org/flourish/
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CVE-2012-3345 symlink attack in ioquake3 >= r1773
Background ========== ioquake3 [IOQ] is a fork of the Quake III Arena (id Tech 3) game engine, and has become the de facto upstream for that engine since id Software ceased to develop it. It is also used (unmodified, modified or forked) in various open-source and proprietary games including OpenArena [OA], Reaction [REA], Smokin’…
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Calling all content creators!
Work has started on “baseio“, a project to create a small game to include with the ioquake3 engine download with Creative Commons licensed content. Work has already been started on textures, weapon models, and a player model, but there is still much to be done. Animations, mapping, and audio are most needed, but if there’s anything…
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Turtle Arena 0.6 Released!
Boasting better than HD graphics, the Turtle Arena team have released version 0.6 of their Turtle-Powered video game. Here’s what’s new: Four player splitscreen! The turtles now have tails, like in the original TMNT comics. Added cel-shading to many 3D models (code from ZEQ2-lite) Remade many images at higher resolution (most or all UI/HUD graphics…
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Reaction Beta 1
The first beta standalone release of Reaction, an ioquake3-based Action Quake 2-styled game is now available. Previously, Reaction required a full install of Quake 3: Arena to play. If you’ve never played Action Quake 2, you should know that it was in the style of your favorite realistic action movies. Guns akimbo, headshots, ridiculous trick…
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Doomed
If you’re interested in the Doom 3 source code release, check out iodoom3.
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Ryan “icculus” Gordon speaks on Open-Source gaming
including the Quake series:
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High-Resolution Creative Commons Texture Replacement Pack
Looking for a graphical update to Quake 3? Check out this new texture pack from Paul Marshall (aka Kpax). It replaces the original textures in Quake 3 with high-resolution versions, and it is licensed under the creative commons! Download now: xcsv_hires.zip (179MB) Unzip this file to your baseq3 directory, note that pure servers will need…