Open source MechCommander 2

Well, it's official... Microsoft has issued a "Shared Source Release" (*cough*open sourced*cough*) MechCommander 2. It can be used with the XNA march '06 build. It's about a gig in size. Might be worth a download for all of you out there who are looking into designing your own games...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d790cde-c3e5-46be-b3a5-729581269a9c&DisplayLang=en

EDIT: Language is C++

 

Yeah saw hat as well. Might be worth looking at. I Will download it and find out

It says under system requirments: "Microsoft MSBuild 2.0"
Can anyone tell what that is please?

 

does it look portable?

Also why is it using XNA? (they update the code?)

 

is MS trying to educate and lure new coders into the ways of XNA or something?

 

that's probably it.. wouldn't supprise if they even rewrote it in C# to promote it too
I remember in 2003 (or if it was 2004) when thay tried to promote C# at a lan and they showed that they ported Quake2 over to C# to prove it could be used for games. damn that thing was laggy

(yes I know it's fully possible to do games in C# so you don't have to explain it to me.. just thought it was a very funny thing when they wanted to show it of)

 

XNA is the future of the microsoft gaming platform... Windows and "Xbox"

As for C#... i've never liked it, it seems clunky to me and it has some severe issues with directX9.

 

They may just use it for the build system, I'll download it at work.

c# is the future of windows development, it finally brings programmers from each level together. Visual basic, java and c++ developers should be able to switch.

Speed can be a problem, but that problem can disappear in a few years. Microsoft are talking about making native code run in an emulated environment eventually. We can finally ditch x86.

smf

 

C# = MS´s way of monopolize the programming way, just to be at the Microsoft antiside.