open source Open Source the PZ engine for future game devs?

[HeadClot]

Hey everyone,

 

I am not sure if this has been said before but what are the possibilities of open sourcing the Project Zomboid game engine for future game devs?

 

I recently saw lemmy101 over on the Unreal Engine forums and found out that he is evaluating the Unreal engine 4 for "future options". Which is why I am curious about this.

 

If you guys do leave your current engine behind - Please open source it if possible.

 

Thank you,

HeadClot

 

If you want to hear my thoughts on the engine and why PZ can benefit from Unreal Click the spoiler below. Which I encourage if you are flipping out right now.

 

 

First off let me get this out - I do NOT know what the Indie Stone are planning on doing. This could be for a far off future project of theirs. This could be a near future plan of Porting Project Zomboid to Unreal 4 aka Project Zomboid 3D.

 

What I do know is that if they do make a game on unreal engine 4 then. They would have -

• Access to a Triple A development toolset for 19 dollars a month.
• Extremely Large world support via the Unreal World Composition toolset. (Try a game world Triple the size of the current game world or even bigger.)
• Not have to worry about the game engine and its development in house.
• Access to a visual shader editor and visual logic editor.
• Access to the best support in the games industry.

 

[EnigmaGrey]

Virtually none, I imagine; they've talked about licensing it out in some manner to those who want to use it (assuming it could be decoupled from the game) in the past.

[lemmy101]

I think if I was a betting man I'd say most people on the team would be looking for a zombie break post-zomboid , whenever that comes about. Still too early to say one way or the other though what we'd do after.

Unreal definitely on our radar though after the C# binding stuff came about.

re: open source we can't possibly say or promise where it goes in future. It'd be nice to do but there are a whole bunch of reasons it could never come to pass so can't say what would happen way down the line.