Microsoft releases Mech Commander 2 as shared source

[Agnus]

See for yourself how MS does their RTS :)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

The License under wich this is released is "Shared-Source Limited Permission License" wich allows alteration and distribution of the code but not the use of sound / grafics

Edit:
Microsoft XNA required to build:
http://www.microsoft.com/xna/

[FizWizz]

Don't call MC2 an RTS...
I love it and all, but it is closer to WCIII style of "RTS."

[Agnus]

Ok, my apologies

But still it might be an interesting read

[SeanHeron]

Wow! I was thinking: thats unbelievable, Microsoft giving away rodocts as open source !
Than I saw that it was more or less as a "trial game" for people interested in XNA (which I´m sure will cost lots...) :/ . On the other hand they are still giving it away at the moment (the community technology preview).
So yeah, definatly interesting.

[Zoombie]

Mechcommander one was by far the better game. It was HARD, but the entire "your commanding mech pilots" thing was cool. I also liked the poorly acted movies.