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Archive for September 29th, 2005

Manifesto Games

Posted by GBGames on September 29th, 2005

I remember when I first read The Scratchware Manifesto detailing the problems with the game industry’s economic and development models. I thought that it was a nice read but probably written by someone who might not actually know about the game industry.
Then Greg Costikyan reveals that he was the author of the piece, shocking […]

More Collective Knowledge: Wikibooks

Posted by GBGames on September 29th, 2005

I found this news item on ZDNet: As the Wikibooks website says, it is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.
Wikipedia already has a huge amount of up-to-date content, and so I wasn’t sure what the difference would be. After all, they both use MediaWiki as the server software, so […]

An Open Source Alternative to Google Earth

Posted by GBGames on September 29th, 2005

NewsForge reports on NASA’s World Wind project. While the images in Google Earth of higher quality, the functionality is mostly the same.
Apparently World Wind is still Windows only. It was written in C#, which wouldn’t be much of a problem, but it also uses DirectX, which is. But […]