Sorry for not mentioning you initially and thank you Sir for making it happen!
I obviously love classical RTS and playing them since original C&C, but there are special place in my heart for Generals exactly because ot was different game.
And for me as game developer seeing this game in a sad state make me sad. I feel it does have as much potential as AoE2 and now more people can try to bring new life to it.
Nothing to be sorry about, the real news is the source code release itself :D
That's awesome to hear. The Generals and Zero Hour community is coming together like never before right now, it's amazing to see that these games are about to get a new lease of life!
Agreed. Internally at companies like this, it's extremely difficult to get something like this approved. This is the result of a lot of meetings, a lot of "no"'s, a lot of legal approvals.
Let's be honest I can't view this anything other than miracle that was delivered to us by some very dedicated people who likely pushed this for years.
I hope there will be more people and companies within industry making similar moves. It's will both increase their sales as well as allow fans to keep their favorite games alive.
Original C&C was rewritten from scratch long ago, but open source version of Zero Hour is such an amazing gift.
PS: if you want to send respects to the person who did it you can do it on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-vessella-62726825_from-th...