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Apricot intends to take on this challenge by recruiting a team of six who will have six months to create a fully 3D game using Blender and Crystal Space.  One of the goals of this project, which I fully support is ” to improve open source tools to better fit to the professional gamedev industry.”

Actually creating a game using open source tools only will certainly go a long way towards doing this as the developers will be able to point out all of the good and bad bits in Blender and Crystal Space by the time they’re done.

They’ve also launched a DVD pre-sale event with the hopes of selling 1000 DVDs prior to February 1st.  What will be on the DVD?  “Expect on the DVD the complete game, all content in Creative Commons Attribute, video blog material, and clear examples and/or tutorials for how to extend the game, add levels, change characters, and so on. Early purchasers of the Apricot game will get their names credited on the game intro and final credit roll.”  The DVD costs 34 Euro, or about $50 US and goes to support not only this project but Blender or Crystal Space.  Pre-ordering will also get your name in the credits.

The game is based on project Peach, an open source movie created entirely in Blender.

Let’s hope the end up with an amazing game and take Linux gaming one gigantic step forward by not only making a game that’s in the public’s eye but by helping to improve development tools and giving game developers easier access to open source products.

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