Finity Flight: Fight Back: Buy the Game, Get the Source Code
Posted in Gaming by admin on November 5th, 2008 The first ever game to be sold with the source code included, Finity Flight: Fight Back, from Curved Infinity Games is to be released shortly.
The Finity Flight: Fight Back (FF:FB) game is released via the MirthKit platform, and is an expansion pack for Finity Flight, and is what the developers claim to be the “first direct hybridization of commercialism and open source philosophy”. What this means is that the game will be sold for a little under $12 and comes complete with the full source code.
The developers say that our “increasing volatile” world of theft countermeasure, FB:FB is a unique development in gaming. Mirthkit firmly believe that this game represents the future of gaming, where it will be viewed as a service, as opposed to being viewed as “information property”.
Mirthkit believe that FF:FB is proof of this new view, claiming that “because gaming is a media, the people will always want more and more”.
Because the game is open, the company feel that it has the benefit of increasing the amount of developer information that is publicly available, which in turn improves the techniques of the game developer community as a whole.
The game itself sounds ok – if a little tired, concept-wise. “Finity Flight: Fight Back takes place shortly after the events of the original Finity Flight. All alone, you’ve repelled the invaders of earth, but instead of simply waiting for them to come back in greater numbers, you are taking the fight to their home turf.”
The expansion pack takes place in space, and adds 15 new levels, four new end-level-bosses, four new types of bad guy to kill, and a load of new unlockable features. Not bad for $11.99.
Mirthkit is a multi-platform online game arcade which provides a complete game-making and publishing package that is free to anyone who wants it. This package allows developers to find new games, as well as modify and sell on anything you come up with.
For those who don’t know, Curved Infinity Games are a Virginia based company who are trying to improve the sustainability of independent game development. Go to their website for more info.
