Much to the surprise of everyone who considered themselves part of Alientrap, only Lee Vermeulen (Nexuiz’s original creator) was ‘Alientrap’ in this deal.
#Xonotic source code license
On March 3rd, 2010, game developer IllFonic announced that they had acquired a commercial, closed-source license for Nexuiz, its engine (darkplaces) and the rights to the game’s name from Alientrap. Team Xonotic v3, edited by a grue - re-edited by -z. Today a compatibilty pack has been released that will rebrand Nexuiz 252. Xonotic 1.0 is planned to be released in about 6 months. All significant decisions will be made by an elected body of six people. Team Xonotic will be run by a small team of volunteers with no one in total control. This brought together the game coders and players in a community revolt.
#Xonotic source code code
Beyond being a first person shooter based on Nexuiz (GPL), Team Xonotic aims to be a rethink and reorganization of how a community creates an open source video game and organizes the services around it.Ī distinct lack of leadership (the announced 253 hot fix is 5 months late), the underhand manner that AlienTrap used to sell the game code and the loss of the Nexuiz identity caused a huge uproar in the game community.
On March 3rd 2010 IllFonic announced their aquisition of, the rights to the games name and a commercial licence for the original Quake 1 game engine for a closed source console version of Nexuiz.įollowing their announcement a large portion of the community joined together to create Team Xonotic and an enduring legacy. The founders of the Xonotic project and community were once Nexuiz developers, contributors and believers. We formally announce the beginning of our new community project, Xonotic. Beyond being a first person shooter based on Nexuiz (GPL) 2.5.2svn, Xonotic aims to be a rethink and reorganization of how we share a GPL video game and organize the services around it. A large portion of the community was very upset by this surprise because Lee Vermeulen failed to complete his due diligence to contributors and more importantly the development team known as ‘Alientrap’, which in this deal only consisted of Lee Vermeulen and Forest Hale (Darkplaces Engine creator).Īn open-letter fell on deaf ears, Vermeulen didn’t apologize and trust has been lost.ĭevelopers and contributors joined together to create Xonotic.
#Xonotic source code software
On March 3rd 2010 IllFonic announced their aquisition of, rights to the name and a commercial license from Id Software for the original Quake 1 game engine, so build a closed source console version of Nexuiz. The founders of Xonotic were first Nexuiz developers, contributors and believers. We’d like to formally announce the beginnings of our new community project, Xonotic. (Here is where the announcement copy will start)
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