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Torque 3D To Be Released On Github Under The MIT License !

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http://linuxgamingnews.org – Torque3D will be released as free software under the MIT license ! Why do we care ? The first engine Torque supported GNU/Linux (and a few GNU/Linux games were released using this engine) but their second TGEA (Torque Game Engine Advanced) sadly didn’t. With Torque3D porting games to GNU/Linux was possible, but haven’t been actually done yet – and no official GNU/Linux support was given. Now that this engine will be free software, it could improve to support GNU/Linux and make games like The Age Of The Decadence and Dead State possible to port to GNU/Linux ! (although no official (Distributions)

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