Blender Releases New Free Open Source 3D Game

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:59 pm

The Blender Institute has just released a new project. After releasing under the Creative Common two awesome Pixar quality short subjects Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny (get it here in 720p or here in 1080p or just watch it here ), the Institute is now releasing Yo Frankie! , a fully free and open source 3D game under the Creative Common license, everything from the artwork to the code is freely re-usable and modifiable even commercially.

By running the game directly from Blender, you can even modify it and see what happens directly from the software, a nice way to learn how to do your own game.

To run the game, just download Blender for your OS and open the file "levels/start_menu.blend" from Blender, this file and all the needed ones are available from this isoHunt release . You can also support the project by buying the DVD of the game here .

That's not all, a Non Profit Organization called Freezing Moon is now using Blender to develop a free and open source MMORPG by a couple of years, so stay tuned...

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:15 pm

This is great!!! My son (who is the only one of us that knows what he's doing) will LOVE this!! I can't wait to dive into this!!

Thanks Patcito, Master of the Coders, ya know,( all you '80's kids) kinda like Heman Master of the Universe. Lame joke Very Happy

+1 for you Mr. Coder!

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:23 pm

Master of the Universe where cool Smile

I've posted some tips related to playing Yo Frankie from the source files, on my new personal website/blog ( www.DreadKnight666.com )

Quote:

Tip 1: When playing from source, hover mouse over the 3d view-port and press shift + space in order to maximize it!

Tip 2: You can make your own binary as well! Go to File and click Save game as run time…

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:10 pm

HOLY SH** Dread Knight!!!! Good job on your 101 rep points!!! Not bad.

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:17 pm

hunniboo wrote:

HOLY SH** Dread Knight!!!! Good job on your 101 rep points!!! Not bad.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:34 pm

Interesting. I knew about peach but admitedly I haven't checked blender.org in a while.

Elefant dream and big buck bunny are both professional and entertaning. I would recommend them to anyone.

To anyone who wishes to start developing in 3D, blender is a free open source program and any one can use it. It's not a very demanding program and will run on most machines.

Cheers!

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:10 am

Really this is super awesome. I love that there are people out there who are not afraid to share.

Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:03 am

Hey! Great news!

Know what is grear for us game designers, too? BF has released a new edition of the Blender Gamekit, a book that teaches you how to make games using the newest version of Blender.

It could be great if you guys could manage to upload a torrent of it!

Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:22 am

Graet job dear unbelievable I am very curious.

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:23 pm

That's awesome! The more we get of this the better. Stick it to the corps who think money is the only way.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:30 pm

my 4 year old loved big buck bunny, could'nt download elephant dream though. is there another link? Bow

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:49 pm

bush2088 wrote:

my 4 year old loved big buck bunny, could'nt download elephant dream though. is there another link? Bow

Here it is http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/23350609/elephants+dream?tab=summary but it's not as fun as Big Buck Bunny. Here is a version on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p27cLysfqYc

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:25 pm

thanks patcito

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:08 pm

Hmm. Maybe I will try this one. I've been holding off on games for some time. Time for a fresh start.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:16 pm

I recently created my first animation using Blender. I almost couldn't believe a software like this would come free...and then I read this post!!

Anyway for those people who are new to Blender, these video tutorials are a great place to start:

http://www.blender.org/education-help/video-tutorials/

After you're done with the 'getting started' part, you can now try your first animation!! It's described in detail so you won't get lost:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Your_First_Animation_in_30_plus_30_Minutes_Part_I

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartI/Your_First_Animation_in_30_plus_30_Minutes_Part_II