Astro Cross: Flashback 1942 (was naming alien ships)

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I did look at Unity engine, but settled on IrrLicht because it's on the zlib license, meaning "completely free for whatever you want to do and we'd like it if you slap our logo in the intro splashes but that's not required either." The sound engine IrrKlang is not quite so liberal, requiring a 99 euro license for commercial use, but that's basically chump change when it comes to commercial licensing. It's also well supported for Code::Blocks IDE, and has a couple of scene graph editors (one from the same devteam that's got a 14 day trial, but the parts that are disabled are to do with Flash and JavaScript web deployment, not the things that load in IrrLicht, and another by a team making a game that's supposed to be quite good also. And the forum community was quite helpful with my pathetic noob questions like "What do all these errors mean when I try to compile the library?" and "Anyone know where to get the DirectX 8 or 9 SDK, my creaky old XP machine doesn't support the newest stuff and it's ludicrously huge compared to them, too."

It also opens hella lots of 3d formats, including the readily available Quake2 and Quake3 maps and player models so you can throw some in as place holders to see and test your own content in. And there's a Blender exporter to the native format, though it's not been updated for the latest releases (I think it was Blender 2.5ish and IrrLicht 1.6, two or three releases ago each)
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