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The motivation of developers to keep own game content non-free while they open the source code may be the protection of the game as sellable commercial product. It could also be the prevention of a commercialization of a free product in future, e.g. when distributed under a non-commercial license like CC NC. By replacing the non-free content ...
The game was positively reviewed by PC Magazine, [4] won the 2017 SIIA CODiE award for Best Creativity Tool for Students, [5] and has been named a top pick for learning by Common Sense Education. [6] In January 2014, CodeCombat made their software open-source, and released a level editor so that users could create their own game content. [3]
Code for Life is a British-based not-for-profit platform that provides free educational resources which teach children how to code in the classroom, or at home.. Rapid Router is Code for Life's browser-based shopping delivery game developed for children aged 5–14 that uses the programming languages Blockly and, in later levels, Python to teach the basic concepts of programming.
Both languages are fully supported. Python is the most commonly used language by developers, but C++ is also common. The users of Panda3D include the developers of several large commercial games, a few open source projects, and a number of university courses that leverage Panda3D's short learning curve.
Pygame was originally written by Pete Shinners to replace PySDL after its development stalled. [2] [8] It has been a community project since 2000 [9] and is released under the free software GNU Lesser General Public License [5] (which "provides for Pygame to be distributed with open source and commercial software" [10]).
Students learn text-based coding on languages like Python, Blockly and CoffeeScript, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science and math. [5] The software was first released in 2014, and was originally developed by Jonathan Schor, Ido Schor and Yishai Pinchover, supported by the Center for Educational Technology in Israel .
In August 2014 the source code for the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 became available on GitHub under a non-open-source license. [223] The successor's engine, X-ray 1.6.02, became available too. [ 224 ] [ 225 ] As of October 2019 the xray-16 engine community fork, "OpenXRay", achieved compiling state and support for the two games Call of Pripyat ...
In July 2014 the game's source code and content got open sourced with a BSD license under the name "Hostile Takeover" on GitHub. [136] [137] As result the game was ported by the game's community to alternative platforms like the Pandora handheld. [138] Warzone 2100: 1999 2004/2008 RTS: GPL-2.0-or-later: GPL-2.0-or-later, CC: Pumpkin Studios ...