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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    Communities like the one that gathers around http://www.ogre3d.org/ seems to work when it comes to amateur development. There is an atmosphere of energy and enthusiasm that really gets you. But still it seems that only the teams which where founded outside the community remained alive inside it...
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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    I'll be silent on this one. The scene is full of people making promises they never have the time to deliver on. IF I'll ever get around to producing games, my engine will be FOSS and I'll help anybody wanting to use it. But that's a big IF. All developers know how easy it is to get distracted...
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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    The prospect of selling less than 20 copies is obviously not awesomely encouraging. However this machine also represents something else: A strong, linux based game-platform from where a developer can reach other platforms in time. I'm just a single person having to deal with graphics, code...
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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    Good harvest of opinions, thank you all. Now I'll put my head on the stove for a couple of days and try to evaluate pro and con. Seen from my point of I get a platform where the SDK is free and very close to something I already know well, but I don't get a very large audience at all. Right now...
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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    I appreciate all your answers which already now has given me a very good clue about the scene. I'm honestly tempted to take the plunge. My apologies if I gave the impression that I am a money seeking bastard! Usually I'm thought of equally much as an anti-capitalistic as a pro-open-source...
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    Commercial Development A Good Or Bad Idea On This Platform?

    Hi all. I'm working to become a game developer (actually using mostly open source tools, but that is besides the point). After having been looking around this platform and this forum for a while, it is still hard for me to figure out what kind of environment this is. Would it be considered bad...
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