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Descent 3 has been made open source (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license. This release was put up on GitHub by Kevin Bentley, one of the original developers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Haha, love the last paragraph. It's hard for software engineers to release code publicly knowing their work is going to be scrutinized by other engineers, without adding a disclaimer or caveat of some kind.

"We had very little time and were crunching for months"

"I know this is a bit hacky but I was 7 years old"

"I wrote this code in hospital while I was recovering from anesthesia"

It reminds me of a musician playing their song publicly for the first time.