OpenBlox - looking for team members

[DangerOnTheRanger]

I've been meaning to make a topic about my primary FOSS (I'm active in 2) game for a while, so here we go...

Overview

What is OpenBlox? In a nutshell, OpenBlox lets you build games with Lego bricks, physics, and Lua. Soon, you'll be able to play your games with your friends across the Internet. OpenBlox came about as a FOSS alternative to the proprietary game ROBLOX, of which I used to be a pretty active player.

OpenBlox's code is licensed under the GPLv3+ (which will probably change to the AGPLv3+ as soon as OpenBlox gains networking ability), while the art assets are licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. The bundled Lua scripts are under the Apache License 2.0.

Features

• Drag-and-drop scene editor, BloxWorks
• Bullet integration (formerly used ODE)
• Special effects: Shadows, audio, and particles (in Mercurial)
• Lua scripting
• "Write once, run anywhere" functionality - if you write your OpenBlox game on (for example) Linux, it will run on Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX without modification

Contributing

Currently, OpenBlox needs the following sorts/types of contributors:

• 3D artists
• 2D/texture artists
• Python programmers

If you want to contribute, feel free to send me an email at openblocks@users.sourceforge.net or post in this thread

Links

• OpenBlox's homepage: http://openblox.sourceforge.net.
• Download OpenBlox here: http://openblox.sourceforge.net/content/download-openblox.
• OpenBlox's wiki: http://openblox.tuxfamily.org.
• OpenBlox's issue tracker: http://tracker.openblox.tuxfamily.org.
• Complete screenshot gallery: https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=286783
• It's already been featured online in a few places too: http://openblox.sourceforge.net/content/openblox-featured-2-websites.

Screenshots

Making an OpenBlox game in BloxWorks:



First-person gameplay:


Lua tech demo:

[shirish]

Hi DangerOnTheRanger,
just saw the site and the github stuff for 3d stick kid. https://github.com/DangerOnTheRanger/Stick-Fight-3D but seems to be bare. Wish there was some more info. about what stick3d wants to accomplish or maybe a screenshot or two so people can know more.

Looking forward to some more info.

[DangerOnTheRanger]

Hi DangerOnTheRanger,
just saw the site and the github stuff for 3d stick kid. https://github.com/DangerOnTheRanger/Stick-Fight-3D but seems to be bare. Wish there was some more info. about what stick3d wants to accomplish or maybe a screenshot or two so people can know more.

Looking forward to some more info.

Hi shirish,

Stick Fight 3D is mostly stalled at the moment, as all the team members have other projects to work on - Stick Fight 3D was never anything more than a side project for everyone involved, so development will probably be stalled until early next year at the earliest. As for screenshots, there's nothing to show at the moment, unfortunately

Basically, what Stick Fight 3D is is the 3D (and FOSS) equivalent to M.U.G.E.N - quite an ambitious project, but possible nonetheless

[DangerOnTheRanger]

Just wanted to let everyone know that while contributors are always welcome (like I stated in the original post), there's an explicit opening for a Python developer that will be a part of the core team now.