BuzzingCars and Blupimania 2 sources

[Skywalker13]

Hello guys,

I'm working for Epsitec SA; my boss (@epsitec) and the main author of the games (@SpeedyBlupi) are OK to open the sources of BuzzingCars, Blupimania 2 and the assets like for CoLoBoT (some years ago) to the free and open-source community.

The question is; are you interested by working on these games which are based on the same engine that the original CoLoBoT? (note that CoLoBoT was the first game with this engine) We think that it will be great to see these games on all platforms. You have made an amazing work and it should not be too difficult to adapt these games in order to use your engine (maybe your engine can be extracted to a library in order to be shared by the other games, not sure if it's already the case?!).

And I'm sure that @OdyX will be very happy to provide the Debian packages and maybe more?

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I can provide the source code shortly but please, if your answer is Yes, we want 😸, then the official repository will be managed by your team and you will work on these games at least for using the new multi-platform engine. If you think that you are not really interested, I think that it's too bad but at least, it will be clear. The goal is not to provide source code and assets if nothing will be done.

Because "maybe" in this case, I will work on it.. but my free time is very limited and now you are the best people for doing this work.

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About the names, I don't know exactly but "Blupi" is registered (I've no idea about the conditions). The code will use GPL3 like CoLoBoT. Just regarding the names and Blupi, it depends of my boss.

PS: have you everything about CeeBot? (if not, I can provide the missing parts) http://www.ceebot.com/ceebot/family-e.php

I hope that you will accept the challenge.

[OdyX]

For what I'm concerned, I'm absolutely thrilled to see these games from my childhood eventually become freesoftware!

I'm very happy provide advice and patches towards suitability for distribution packaging, and liaise with Debian, including packaging and maintenance of these games for Debian (and Ubuntu PPAs), but I absolutely (but unfortunately) don't have time or the skillset for game development.

[epsitec]

By the way, if you have any licensing questions, I am your privileged contact ;-)

[Emxx52]

Such marvelous and unexpected news!

It would be a great honour for us at TerranovaTeam to be able to work on these fantastic games.

As for now the development of Colobot: Gold Edition and further improving its engine would be our main focus. We will experiment with and provide support for CeeBot-Teen, CeeBot-A, BlupiMania-2 and BuzzingCars until GOLD’s engine is flexible enough to handle full multiplatform releases of these games.
We cannot promise too much without seeing games’ source files, we will try our best though!

Regarding CeeBot: we would be immensely pleased to work on a major update for CeeBot4 SCHOOL in the future, as it is a perfect tool for teaching the basics of programming. The idea of porting the project to numerous platforms and expanding its educational capabilities is quite thrilling. The game also features a ton of interesting solutions that would be really beneficial to Colobot: Gold Edition. Unfortunately, as @epsitec stated before we wouldn’t be able to acquire rights and source code of the game without Otto Kölbl’s permission. We planned on reaching Mr Kölbl concerning this subject. We are yet to do so as we don’t suppose anything changed on that matter...?

So: Yes, we want 😸

I am writing this on behalf of the entire TerranovaTeam

[Skywalker13]

Great, glad to hear 😄

@Emxx52

Unfortunately, as @epsitec stated before we wouldn’t be able to acquire rights and source code of the game without Otto Kölbl’s permission. We planned on reaching Mr Kölbl concerning this subject. We are yet to do so as we don’t suppose anything changed on that matter...?

Wow, I forgot this point.. Mr Kölbl is no longer employee of Epsitec SA since a significant time. Maybe a colleague knows his current email address. Then you are right, unfortunately nothing has changed about this point.

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So, I will provide the files for Blupimania 2 and BuzzingCars this saturday (2017.01.28) or sunday (29).

[Skywalker13]

@Emxx52
Look at your gmail box...
Enjoy

[epsitec]

@Emxx52 Otto Kölbl has a public e-mail address. Have a look at this entry.

[Emxx52]

@Skywalker13 @epsitec
Thank you very much!

@Skywalker13 && @epsitec
Thank you very much :) ! Can't wait until I'll drown in all of those assets. Receiving sources of all of these childhood games was a great honour and kinda personal turning point in my life 😁 .

[Skywalker13]

You're welcome

I've spoken a bit with my colleague (@SpeedyBlupi, the original author) about the Mr Kölbl rights. Mr Kölbl has no rights on the CeeBot source code (c++)), then it's GPL3 like all other source codes of CoLoBoT. Some rights exist for some exercises but it's just a fraction. I will send you a list of "exercises" which need the agreement of Mr Kölbl but it seems that's only a small part.

[jounathaen]

Hello,
I'm interested in the Source of Planet Blupi and Speedy Blupi.
Is it possible to get the Source? I'd like to develope it further, but I'm a bit concerned of my coding skills. So I'm not sure if I can maintain that Project (altrough I'd like to)
Greetings

[Skywalker13]

Hi,
I've converted Planet Blupi to SDL2 and I've a working version for all usual platforms: Linux Windows and Darwin

I will provide the sources soon on github.

For Speedy Blupi, I'm planning to do like Planet Blupi.

[PracticeBot13]

Can't wait for the sources. @Skywalker13

[Skywalker13]

Yes you can

I'm father since only 1.5 month.. I've less time for that but it's on the way. I want to publish everything properly with the website and the releases for all platforms for the end users. The public git repository will be provided when the website will be done. Note that it's the 20th anniversary of planetblupi. It must be done correctly.
😃

[PracticeBot13]

@Skywalker13 Take your time, I'll still be waiting.