D vs Java

[Lucas Goss]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> Do you know what Valve did with their games? (Half-Life/Half-Life2)
> 
> They released the source to the game engine (*not* the graphics engine, 
> only the game logic, which by the way, is huge), and allowed hobyists to 
> modify it and distribute their modifications (aka Mods). That's how 
> Counter-Strike was born.

Ah yes. I knew about the Half-Life mod stuff, but never actually used it 
myself. But I believe it is similar to Tribes, now the Torque engine 
made by GarageGames which I've used a little. It's basically an engine 
done in C/C++ with many of the functions available through a scripting 
language. The biggest problem with those engines though is that they are 
very geared towards FPS games/style. But yes, that could be another way 
to do it.