GGJ License, EGP Feb 2012, STK Overworld, FG Interview

GGJ 2012 Theme

Global Game Jam 2012 is over and you can find all the by-nc-sa-licensed games here. We talked to the organizers about allowing free (as in freedom etc.) licenses and got some positive replies, but in the end it was too short a notice.

We ask you now to write a short message to GGJ, asking for the inclusion of further licenses, for example a GPL+CC-BY-SA combination for GGJ 2013. Also feel free to discuss this in the comments.

If you participated in GGJ, we would like to encourage you to release your games under free licenses in addition to the required nc license.

EGP February 2012

Speaking of jams, the 7day-jam-during-one-month by Experimental Gameplay Project is "Infinite Worlds" for this month.

STK Overworld

As recently announced, one of the new features in SuperTuxKart 0.8 will be an overworld-connected challenge system.

Durk Talsma: AI programmer

Flight Gear's blog released a new interview. You can find the other interviews so far linked in this post.

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Ludum Dare, Game Jams and Licenses

Olofson's LD22 game

Free, open source licenses are underrepresented at game jams and contests.

This weekend's Ludum Dare ends in a few hours and it already counts 754 entries. The following authors mentioned open source licenses in the context of the compo/jam:

• roschdal plans on "releasing the game as open source on Github"
• Riley Adams's project is already there (GPL3)
• Agon's code is as well ("LICENSE: TODO")
• mcc released LD code as open source before, maybe it'll happen again?
• Olofson's (of Kobo Deluxe fame) failed submission is available (under LGPL)
• Furyhunter submitted a jME game (Not sure but seems to be GPL)
• kragniz's GPL game requires pyglet and pymunk
• lorancou made a HTML/Canvas game called lonekitty (GPL)

lonekitty

Here are some non-submission projects discovered on Ludum Dare:

• dwrensha released a SDL framework (GPL)
• KhaoTom mentioned the Spacescape skybox generator

A *lot* of other submissions use GitHub but have no license info. :(

I found above projects using this advanced Google search. Hopefully, there will be more results in a few hours, which would mean another blog post.

kragniz' in-progress

Here's a quick list of ideas how free licenses could get more attention in such events.

• Organizers could recommend free code and asset licenses
• Developers could offer porting non-cross-platform submissions in exchange for release under free licenses
• Participating developers, who already use free licenses, could advertise these in blog posts and announcements (more)

The Global Game Jam for example requires use of the CC-BY-NC-SA license, which unfortunately is non-free though.

Let us know of any freely licensed game jam/competition entries which we didn't cover!

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