Welcome to the FOSSMMO Project

Hello potential players, possible contributors and curious readers!

Thank you for stopping by!

FOSS-MMO is a project that has been kicking around my head for a while. As an avid gamer I've played many MMO's from the maligned World of Warcraft to the MCMMO add on for minecraft. In every game the forums are filled with complaints and many times the response from the developers is that you do not know what would be required for such a change.

Wouldn't it be refreshing to know? To know what it takes to alter a given skill? What it takes to develop a new encounter?

That is my goal for this project. I want to produce an MMO that is compelling to play but more importantly that is developed in a manner that is ethical and open. Game artwork will be available for download just like source code. Code, art and music will all be posted along side blog posts or tutorials so others can follow in our footsteps.

My hope is down the line to have gamers play this game for its entertainment value and ethics and aspiring developers or artists to use this as a guide to making their first games. Most importantly I hope this project serves as an example and a model how games can be developed successfully in an open manner.

More to come, if this interests you please join the project or email me greg.silverstein@gmail.com with questions.

Thanks!