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No need to reinvent the wheel
By Sparky | April 9, 2006
I just saw a nifty article online about a guy who (on a bet) decided to develop a computer game in a week. Mind you - it’s no Halo 2 or anything, but nonetheless it looks to be a fun little game.
The big point here is that we really have gotten to the point in technology where the general public can take advantage of the work and knowledge base of those that came before them. The developer (Jay Barnson) had development budget, and used only open source tools. In a mere 40 man hours (two weeks of part time work) he was able to make a game that 10 years ago would have passed for commercial grade.
I’m glad to see open source getting wider and wider approval and acceptance. As technology moves forward hopefully more and more types of applications will be developed by passionate “new comers to the technical age”
Topics: Open source, Web gems |
April 27th, 2006 at 8:09 am
It is about the TreeXlog