Ryzom coming to Linux and FreeBSD?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:40:13AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Got a note from the Free Software Foundation that a massively
> multi-player game Ryzom is being released as free software .. sort of.
> Ryzom is a game where you explore an alien landscape, doing various
> quests (ie: retrieve the treasure at ...). All the software required
> to run a Ryzom server and clients is being released. 13 GB of artwork
> is being released under a creative commons license. What isn't being
> released is the music and sound effects (the company behind Ryzom
> doesn't have the rights to release those). What also isn't being
> released is terrain description files, "special" object files and
> quest definition files.
> 
> In other words what we are looking at is a tool kit for building games
> like Ryzom, with a few critical, but replaceable, pieces missing...
> Details to be seen here:
> 
> http://dev.ryzom.com/news/13 and at
> http://www.fsf.org/news/free-ryzom-1
> 
> My questions are, how long before the Ryzom client is ported to Linux
> and/or FreeBSD? Also, how long before you can do a usable totally free
> Ryzom server?

Well it says in the source that the NeL framework is developed and
tested on windows and linux.  It has OpenGL and OpenAL support in addition
to DirectX.

So it may be pretty close already.

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