FreeGameDev

Yet Another game Engine goes open source... more info available on the official site: http://news.turbulenz.com/post/49430669 ... pen-source

Yeah, heard about that one.
Not so sure though, if advanced browser games are really met with much enthusiasm in the FOSS world, now that the technical side of things are pretty much solved and open-standards exist.

Julius {l Wrote}:Not so sure though, if advanced browser games are really met with much enthusiasm in the FOSS world, now that the technical side of things are pretty much solved and open-standards exist.

I can't ascertain enthusiasm, but there has long been a big market for open source web services. WordPress and reddit are perhaps the most successful open source websites. As for web development, open source has been extremely popular there since the inception of Perl and PHP.

As for open source web games now, I haven't seen any opposition per se, though some people are still annoyed that the installation procedure is often extremely complex and that self-hosting things is not the easiest. They still stick to this desktop mantra for whatever reason though self-installation of the finished product is entirely possible.