Infinity Engine

kosamae · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: Infinity Engine

Its not really progress, but I thought you all might be interested in this. I emailed Bioware's contact email to see if they'd give it to me.

Hi there,

The idea has been tossed around, but I'm not sure the engine is in a
state that we would want it released to the general public.

Thanks for the email!

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Dave McGruther
nwninfo@bioware.com

BioWare Corp.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Kostas [mailto:kosamae@ignmail.com]

Posted At: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:59 AM
Posted To: Contact
Conversation: Infinity Engine source
Subject: Infinity Engine source

I was wondering if Bioware had ever considered releasing the source of
the Infinity engine to the community, now that it's becoming more
dated,
and future releases from your company will very likely use full 3d
engines, as opposed to Infinity's sprite based engine. If you wouldn't
release it to the community in general, would you be willing to allow
parties interested in porting it to other operating systems to have
access to it, to create binaries for other OSes (i.e. Linux)?
Either way, thank you for your time, and thank you for providing Linux
users with a Neverwinter Nights port, it is much appreciated, as would
any kind of source release be.

-Steve
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Bowyakka · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:22 am Post subject:

nice plan and good to see that bioware actually responded with a resonable comment , however at the mo bioware are at the top of their tree and I can see them not wanting to "share" some of their secrets with rivals

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Uranus · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:27 pm Post subject:

He still didn't answer the question.... why wont he let someone port it?

Zeddicus · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 163

Isn't it obvious why it isn't released as open source?

Too many swears and slurs in the code!