OMG, which stands for Oh my gosh, I am going to church in a few minutes, but just discovered this while reading Softpedia or whatever.
Sadly, LucasArts shut down, bummer.
Oh well, Disney knows what they are doing from a business point of view. License product to third party producers cuts down your risk.
Makes sense, now who are these third party producers?
- Those folks would be you, and I would recommend that you use VC++ with Team Foundation Server to produce the next Jedi magic! While paying Disney a license fee. That’s the way it works. Except for the Jedi Academy, they are GNU GPL, so not clear on the licensing on that.
- How does Activision fit into all of this?
- Can I use the graphics however I want?
- Since I work at Microsoft I will have to figure this out.
- What about you? It’s your problem, but make sure to read the comic book on fair use at:
- https://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
- Understand the licensing restrictions under the covering Open Source licenses with this download
- Once you have done all of that go crazy!
Here are the links to check:
(The following links are non-functional when checked on 4/10/2013 and 4/11/2013)
Also, in case you remember MechCommander you can get the source code, ready for use in an older version of Visual Studio, VS 2005 (still available to MSDN and MSDNAA/Premium Students):
If you want to become an awesome programmer in any category of programming, then you should get experience modifying these open source games! People who program games are some of the best programmers in the world.