Nexuiz.com makeover? Nexuiz going to consoles?

[Ilaith]

Anyway, I think that they made a mistake and put the site online for a short period of time. This is how that screenshot was possible (maybe).

The site is up as we speak. http://nexuiz.com

[Aleator]

Yes, you're wright. It must have been cached... that's why I didn't see the change. But look at that, the button does exactly what I said...

[Ilaith]

Yes, you're wright. It must have been cached... that's why I didn't see the change. But look at that, the button does exactly what I said...

It does. And it still doesn't make it acceptable. Currently that site seems to be more like a placeholder. Imagine when there's more content. Who scrolls down to the bottom and finds the button? Noone.

[morfar]

I never knew that they also took the name Nexuiz. But that is fine and good. Because the "normal" Nexuiz gets more publicity.
But I wish they had a big banner that said something like "Click here for the original free Nexuiz version".

This is awesome. And of course I'd like all of you to try it out. I know a bunch of Nexuiz users that own a ps3.

[Ilaith]

But that is fine and good. Because the "normal" Nexuiz gets more publicity.

I'm sorry, but that sounds like wishful thinking. If anything "normal" Nezuiz gets less publicity and completely forgotten. The name Nexuiz will probably be associated with the console game instead, draining and killing this wonderful community.

But I wish they had a big banner that said something like "Click here for the original free Nexuiz version".

Sounds reasonable. If it's at the top of the site and takes up at least 50% of the header.

This is awesome. And of course I'd like all of you to try it out. I know a bunch of Nexuiz users that own a ps3.

I own a PS3. I will never play this "new" Nexuiz on it. Too heretic for me.

[Dave]

permission was obtained from the contributors of the content used (engine, qc, map sources - all art/sound assets are being redone from scratch).

It doesn't look like id offers commercial licenses to id tech 1 anymore, but this should be considered for console nexuiz since Darkplaces is not a clean-room implementation of Quake 1.

[Mirio]

Why not Nexiuz duh?
Major epoch fail - i hope

[tundramagi]

Well atleast the people's who's GPL content was licensed have gotten or will get some money for their contributions to opensource.
Other than the name conflict (2 games, one name), this isn't a bad thing.
It's good that those who made the game code, engine, and content and contributed it to opensource will (I assume) aquire some income for it.

GPL nexuiz will have to change it's name, however, as a practicality measure. It's an easy fix: go choose the word for "strength" or "power" in some other language.

Like german. Or russian. Or american (the american word for "strenght" is Nuke, so you could still use the N symbol powerup)

Hopefully the commercial developers will pay the game and engine code developers to add more features and let those features be GPL.
I hope this is a windfall for the nexuiz developers as ... well if one can make some income from the OSS stuff, then one doesn't have to devote one's ENTIRE life to a regular job that bars one from really doing much with OSS (sucks up all one's time).

If the name is changed just inform phorex, nvidia, and slashdot. There you go, then they'll use the new name for their benchmarks.

[Ilaith]

Well atleast the people's who's GPL content was licensed have gotten or will get some money for their contributions to opensource.
Other than the name conflict (2 games, one name), this isn't a bad thing.
It's good that those who made the game code, engine, and content and contributed it to opensource will (I assume) aquire some income for it.

Quite some assumptions. Lets hope you are correct.

GPL nexuiz will have to change it's name, however, as a practicality measure. It's an easy fix: go choose the word for "strength" or "power" in some other language.
Like german. Or russian. Or american (the american word for "strenght" is Nuke, so you could still use the N symbol powerup)

And this is where it gets difficult. Why should the opensource community have to stand down. If anyone should change any names here, it's "new" Nexuiz.

Hopefully the commercial developers will pay the game and engine code developers to add more features and let those features be GPL.

Doesn't sound quite realistic to me.

[paperclips]

Hey ppl, what gives!?
This is bloody awesome!

Nexuiz, the nexuiz we all love dearly, will get loads of attention!
People will see that there is a PC version and thats its GPL.

"- Dude what's the GPL?
-- Well, its a thing were people can contribute, enhance the game and freely copy/hand it out. Players make/IS the game.
- ORLY?
-- YARLY.
- So.. liek there is these two games with the same name and one you pay for and the other you get free and you can do stuff with it?
-- Yeah, its free as in you can change it to what you want, great for curriculum vitae as an dev/artist and YES free as of charge"

And so forth. Its the TALKING that matters, I mean the whole of south america and india and other FLOSS friendly bigass places and the rest of the world have a large bunch of artists and developers for nexuiz, they don't know it yet. They don't know how great of a feat it would be to have future employers look at their work, point and say, "See those guts in midair? Thats my code/graphics" That is where we as a community come in, as in being nice to newcomers, have a open friendly non elitist attitude, spawn ideas within the community, but most of all, help each other out and keep on having a good time!

Although there are two things that I might wonder about:
A: Why nexuiz and not nexuiz with something added to it. I should add that I like it the way it is now.
B: I hope they got some moneys for it thats been directed toward developers and other artists. I think that is a bigger hurdle to get people interested (STILL sadly enough), than that there is a console (good god) game out there with the same name as real nexuiz.