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Linux Foundation and Partners Announce "Open 3D Foundation"

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 07 2021, @12:58AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Linux Foundation Launches Open 3D Foundation, Amazon Lumberyard Spun As Open 3D Engine

The Linux Foundation and their partners are today announcing their intent to form the Open 3D Foundation to help foster 3D game and simulation technologies. As a key part of this new Open 3D Foundation, Amazon's Lumberyard game engine that started off based on CryEngine is going to see an Apache 2.0 licensed copy made available as the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).

An "updated version" of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is going to form the basis of the new Open 3D Engine being maintained by the Open 3D Foundation. Amazon previously made Lumberyard available on GitHub while keeping to a proprietary license but this move is indeed seeing Open 3D Engine made available under an Apache 2.0 license and "unencumbered by commercial terms and will provide the support and infrastructure of an open source community through forums, code repositories, and developer events."

[...] Besides Amazon AWS being involved with the Linux Foundation's new Open 3D Foundation, other notable vendors involved include AccelByte, Adobe, Apocalpyse Studios, International Game Developers Association, Niantic, PopcornFX, Red Hat, and Wargaming, among others.

The Open 3D Foundation website will be opening up today at o3d.foundation.

It will be interesting to see how this Open 3D Foundation and Open 3D Engine evolve over the months ahead. In today's embargoed news release there was no real mention of this being about Linux gaming -- while being an initiative backed by the Linux Foundation -- but rather a move about fostering open-source 3D efforts across vendors.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday July 07 2021, @12:19PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 07 2021, @12:19PM (#1153663) Journal

    There simply is no market for linux games.

    Wanna bet?

    Games on Linux will come by a strong enough studio/publisher that launches titles on many platforms at once, Linux among them. In other words, granted, "games for Linux" is a losing propositions, but "games incidentally on Linux too" is not (as games incidentally on Stadia too [wikipedia.org] is also not a losing proposition, in spite of an insignificant market share today)

    There's this big IFF, tho': it will happen IFF Linux gets enough support for gaming, from optimized drivers to rendering/sound APIs that are stable and of good quality. For the rest of it, there are (and will be) gaming engines that the studios will use - Open 3D Engine may be among them. And maayybe, just maaaayyybe, this very movement made by Amazon/Linux foundation will make NVIDIA think twice about the support it throws in for Linux (yeah, CUDA's nice, but doesn't do rendering).

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 07 2021, @02:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 07 2021, @02:18PM (#1153694)
    Game publishers don't want the hassle of trying to make money on a platform encumbered by the GPL. End of story. Plus that most linux users are cheap, and those who are into gaming already have a Windows box, or can dual boot.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday July 07 2021, @02:27PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 07 2021, @02:27PM (#1153699) Journal

      Game publishers don't want the hassle of trying to make money on a platform encumbered by the GPL. End of story.

      Ummm.... you mean GPLed like the OS kernel that the Android runs on top of?
      Maybe you are right, I've seen no big studios/publishers pushing Android games. But what do I know, I never actually looked.
      Should I look up on Google Play for games from big studios or would you provide a citation for the assertion you made?

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