Showing posts with label Define. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Define. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Define: Open Source Video Games

Open Source Videos Games are video games that are shared freely over the internet, and which can freely be modified and expanded upon.

Open Source games are generally licensed under the GPL (though there are other licenses). Open source games are preferably refereed to as Free Software (Free Software video games just doesn't roll off the tongue very well).

Currently I've struck-through video games in the subtitle, cause I'm not really covering these right now, I've only just started after all! I'll get to this after my weekly Free RPG posts become easier to handle. And possibly after my CSS gets to a stable state.

Define:Free RPG

A Free RPG is a Role Playing Game system that's released for free over the internet (or -hypothetically- any other medium). Ideally these games'd also be released under a license that allows redistribution and modification (like Creative Commons Attribution, with or without non-commercial) but Free RPG generally is not limited to only modifiable ones.

This is "Open Gaming" on Wikipedia. There are a variety of Free RPGs released on 1KM1KT.

Define: Freedom Gaming Blog

A blog on Free RPGs and Open Source Video Games.

Because every four letter word was taken.


this post to be expanded on later.