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Jan 14 / Ozymandias

SimCity Sourcecode Released Under GNU GPL

Thought it was quite forward-thinking of EA to release source under the GPL for SimCity, one of Will Wright’s classic games. I’m especially curious to see what new revisions (art assets, sound, gameplay mods, etc.) people might come up with. Check it out!

"The key thing here is to peek inside the mind of the original Maxis programmers when they built it. Remember, this was back in the day when games had to fit inside of 640k so some "creative" programming techniques were employed. SimCity has been long a model used for urban planning and while it’s just a game, there are a lot of business rules, ecosystem modeling, social dependencies, and other cool stuff going on in this codebase. It may not be pretty code but it’s content sure is interesting to see."

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  • DevsterC

    Funny enough, I only ever played the original SimCity, none of the sequels. Played it on the SNES and PC.

    PS – come on, Ozy; all the HD DVD vs. BluRay stuff going on, and you post about SimCity?

  • http://hotlard.wordpress.com Butwheaty

    @DevsterC

    Ozy won’t comment on the HD DVD vs Blu-ray because he’s ashamed that Blu-ray is stomping HD DVD and almost all of the major studios fully-support Blu-ray now.  He’s ashamed to admit that Microsoft doesn’t see the light and continues to support a near-dead format.

    Or, he knows of a dual-format optical drive that Microsoft is working on and he can’t say anything about it.  ;)

  • Ozymandias

    Or I just won’t comment because any responses might be picked up as "official Microsoft" responses (which they aren’t). Pretty much as simple as that, I fear…

  • http://live.xbox.com/member/DevsterC DevsterC

    Boo-urns. :-P

  • JohnCz

    Ozy, please communicate to the Media Extender & HD DVD teams that they should work with Toshiba to provide a firmware upgrade.  Namely to add Media Extender functionality to the HD-A3 HD DVD player. It may be too late to change the game in HD DVD favor.  But even if it doesn’t save HD DVD itself, there are some other areas Microsoft/Toshiba can gain from this.