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Does id Software no longer open source their game engines?

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First post, by UCyborg

Posted on 2025-04-15, 08:32

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If I'm not mistaken, last thing they open-sourced was DOOM 3 BFG Edition (at least the engine). I suspect RAGE is old enough now. But maybe it's not a thing anymore since John Carmack resigned.

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Reply 1 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2025-04-15, 09:45

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Keep in mind they are owned by Zenimax.

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Reply 2 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2025-04-15, 11:03

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also their new engines are very much not modular and tied to their infrastructure so it'd probably be as good as useless when GPL'd.

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Reply 3 of 3, by UCyborg

Posted on 2025-04-17, 07:41

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John Carmack talked about open sourcing id Tech 5 back in the day, but it never happened. They were also saying back in the day that DOOM 3 BFG Edition, using parts of id Tech 5, is not as moddable as original. So the thing about lack of modularity applies here too?

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