Serious Sam 1 goes Open-Source

[Kinsie]

Announcement

Hey guys, today we have a surprise for you. We’re releasing the source code for Serious Engine v1.10! It’s the very same engine that we used for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.

This month we’ll be celebrating Serious Sam’s 15th anniversary and we’re all feeling very nostalgic. Croteam’s Vyacheslav Nikitenko, who worked on the source code and prepared Serious Engine v.1.10 for this release, had this to say:

“Historically, this version of Serious Engine is very important for Croteam and for me personally. I created several mods for Serious Sam back in the day, before even starting the work on the source code, and it was a great tool for learning.

And it’s even better today! Obviously, Serious Engine v1.10 won’t produce top-notch graphics, but the source code is very well commented, easy to modify, and there are lots of user generated mods out there. This version has everything you need to build your own game – or just experiment."

GitHub

Mostly GPLv2, some audio libraries and model import/export tools are not present for licensing/copyright reasons. Try not to eat it all at once, now!

[PooshhMao]

I'm pretty psyched about this, personally. Looking forward to GzSam.

[Marrub]

As I expected, the code for this engine is completely insane, although it seems to be insane in a nice way.
There's a lot of assembly in this code. A lot. Which I think is to be expected for an engine made in 1999 or so.
The way it uses C++ is so un-idiomatic they may as well have been using C. It seems they think C++ is supposed to be a memory manager.

[leileilol]

Sadly, the "bumpmap" feature they had in 1999-2001 is missing in this source.

Also I wouldn't count on "improving" source ports - Sam HD exists for that role already, and there's that stupid "Revolution" thing...

if anything we'd likely see Sam ported to crazy inferior systems like Playstation shittable, Sega Shitcast, Raspberry Pi-eceofshit, MS-DumbOldShit, Universal Windows Shitform, etc... and of course the gratuitous grossly overmarketed "standard" SDL port.

[Oberron]

URRGH...

[Gez]

if anything we'd likely see Sam ported to crazy inferior systems like Playstation shittable, Sega Shitcast, Raspberry Pi-eceofshit, MS-DumbOldShit, Universal Windows Shitform, etc... and of course the gratuitous grossly overmarketed "standard" SDL port.

Stands for Shit Diarrhea Leak I suppose.

[Oberron]

Or even 'Sock Dumb Leg' to my mind.

[Nash]

Oh hey it's that game with those cool len's flare's

[Oberron]

Oh hey it's that game with those cool len's flare's

First true 3D game that had it was Scud Race, but the first tech demo was the 32X demo from 1995 (a segment).

[Big C]

Sadly, the "bumpmap" feature they had in 1999-2001 is missing in this source.

Also I wouldn't count on "improving" source ports - Sam HD exists for that role already, and there's that stupid "Revolution" thing...

if anything we'd likely see Sam ported to crazy inferior systems like Playstation shittable, Sega Shitcast, Raspberry Pi-eceofshit, MS-DumbOldShit, Universal Windows Shitform, etc... and of course the gratuitous grossly overmarketed "standard" SDL port.

Why the Hell so sarcastic about Dreamcast and the Raspberry Pi? :S The latter in particular was never really *meant* to run games.

[leileilol]

DC's power is often overstated because of the early demise. It was already hitting those limits from US launch and the DC's real muscle is in the CPU.

Pi, because even Q3 is too slow for the Pi, GLES will certainly hate the procedural texture animation system and use of macro/detail/specular layers.... not like that'll stop anybody from trying!

[Big C]

Oh okay, fair enough.

[Marisa the Magician]

As long as I can drop the unfinished Linux betas for an actually active port, then it's fine for me.

[cambertian]

Pi, because even Q3 is too slow for the Pi, GLES will certainly hate the procedural texture animation system and use of macro/detail/specular layers.... not like that'll stop anybody from trying!

Well, they're coming out with new single-board computers all the time, even if they're not the Pi specifically. They're bound to catch up.
I'm mostly interested because you can make pocket-sized PCs with them. I'll admit, smartphones might have slightly more practicality, power, spread and such in today's world, but nothing can beat a keyboard. Not even one made out of clicky little buttons.

Anyway: I wasn't aware that Serious Sam WASN'T open-source until now. I'll have to look into this further...

[leileilol]

As long as I can drop the unfinished Linux betas for an actually active port, then it's fine for me.

Icculus is working on diffing the repository for doing this already.

Also all the sources have GPL headers now

(also i'm currently hounding them to fix their bumpmapping problem that has been going on since 1.05, so the engine source release can be more complete - which is possible since icculus has 1.04 which has the said effect)