Doom 3 source code to become public

Posted on Friday, August 05 2011 @ 18:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

id Software's John Carmack revealed the source code of Doom 3 will become open source sometime this year, after the launch of Rage.

Carmack said once RAGE is released, id will focus on giving the DOOM 3 source code to the public. It will be released sometime this year. Carmack said this is also a challenge to other developers to release old source code. It helps the development community and id.

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