[quake3] Greetings

[Ludwig Nussel]

Tiago Resende wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:09:18PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > thing wrote:
> > > There are a few members of our team still around, and at this time we
> > > are working towards the idea of making a stand alone game based upon our
> > > last mod and ioquake.
> > 
> > I wonder why people are so excited about making a "standalone" game
> > by compiling some snapshot of ioquake3 and renaming the binary.
> > What's wrong with having a mod for ioquake3?
>  
> I always understood that the main reason was that a mod needs a copy of
> quake3 (including pak0) which costs money and is also hard to find
> nowadays for new players.
> 
> So, yeah, a standalone game doesn't need non-GPL artwork (and maybe
> other stuff I'm not aware of).

ioquake3 doesn't need baseq3, it's just the default.

cu
Ludwig

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