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Colonizing the Open Source World
FreeCol - Open source game Colonization
For those of you who don’t know about Open Source projects, they are quite brilliant. Open source, as defined by Diciontary.com means: software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers’ ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term “free software“.
For those not in the gaming world, believe me I am not either, Colonization was a spinoff of Sid Meier’s huge success, Civilization.
Yeah, so? So, Colonization has been made open source…. this is huge.FreeCol, www.freecol.org, was built to allow others to add to this classic game. The sky’s the limit. It was built using Java so it works cross-platform. Mac and PC users can enjoy. Eventually the game will be made for online, multiplayer.
Open source has gone from a way to describe a single piece of software to a complete way of life and mantra-like love affair. It’s a way of eliminating the monopolies that companies like Microsoft have over consumers by giving the people a way to make things better, stronger and faster on their own terms. It is the posterchild for the new market, the new consumer who wants it “my way on my terms on my time.”
The mentality should be taken into consideration by every company out there. If you try to control people, they will simply bypass you… because they can.
WARNING: If you start playing Colonization, you won’t stop. You will lose massive amounts of time in a warplike reality. It can be dangerous so make sure you have an alarm clock next to your computer.
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This entry was written by Joseph Szala, posted on February 4, 2009 at 10:15am, filed under Unsolicited Thoughts and tagged ,business ideas, business strategy, civilization, free colonization, free game, java based game, open source for business, open source game, opensource, sid meier, sid meirs colonization. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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Posted by Paul Benninghove at 10:53am on 02/04/09
HAHA I remember that game well. I eventually graduated to Civilizations 1 through 3. Love those titles. Colonization is super old now so when a product can’t make a buck anymore they open source it, similiar to what ID did with the Quake family of games I & II i believe. Although that may have just been the engine available for free.
Posted by Joseph Szala at 11:39am on 02/05/09
I am not a huge gamer by any means, but Colonization and Civilization are like crack man. Ughhhh. The open source game idea is so awesome though. Great model. You could even do plugins to add sponsored product placement for other games.
Good stuff.
Posted by Paul Benninghove at 2:26pm on 02/05/09
Yea i like the idea of for lack of a better term semi-open source gaming. Similiar to what Unreal Tourmanent does where they open up the engine to you so you can mod it and make some truly inspiring games. Still have to pay for the base UT game to get it though. At least this way the game developer can make some cash, it is rediculously expensive afterall to dev game assets.