Ideas For The Xonotic Announcement FAQ
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What prompted the split from Nexuiz?
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Lee Vermeulen, the Nexuiz project founder, decided to license the Nexuiz code, including the DarkPlaces engine, to a new game development company named IllFonic so that they could develop a closed-source version for the PS3. As part of this deal, IllFonic acquired the rights to use the name Nexuiz along with the domain nexuiz.com, and are under no obligation to contribute code back to the open-source Nexuiz project. UPDATE: Lately, there had been promises about parts of the game code, and some recent engine changes have surfaced to be changes actually done in contract for IllFonic.
-When this was announced, the response from the Nexuiz community was overwhelming negative, even from the development team and main contributors. Vermeulen had not actively participated in the project for several years and all development has been done by the community. Most members have expressed a sense of betrayal and cited the project as an example of Mushroom Management [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom\_management]. Vermeulen essentially cashed in on the hard work of others and sold the code, name and reputation that they had built up over years without him.
+When this was announced, the response from the Nexuiz community was overwhelming negative, even from the development team and main contributors. Vermeulen had not actively participated in the project for several years and all development has been done by the community. Most members have expressed a sense of betrayal and cited the project as an example of [Mushroom Management](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management). Vermeulen essentially cashed in on the hard work of others and sold the code, name and reputation that they had built up over years without him.
Despite attempts to reason with IllFonic [link], they have refused to change the name of their project to a derivative name even though they have directly stated that their “version” of Nexuiz is a completely different game [link]. The hijacking of the Nexuiz project by its absentee founder and IllFonic made it clear that it had no future as it stood and thus the community left to found Xonotic.
From the very start, we all discussed organizing the Xonotic Team with a handful of caretakers to make decisions on big/difficult issues for the game, and a committee underneath with community contributors who make decisions on most issues. The caretakers will also act to keep the project on track and maintain organization. All decisions will be made with input of the committee. The names of the caretakers are:
- DivVerent [GER] : Lead developer
-- ~~z~~ [US] : Lead web developer, Server admin
+- -z- [US] : Lead web developer, Server admin
- Dokujisan [US] : Community director, Server admin
- tZork [SWE] : Developer, Server admin, Mapper, Modeler
- mand1nga [ARG] : Developer
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