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Bug#777373: ITP: doom3-dhewm3 -- GPL'ed Source code modification of the Doom3 game engine



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>

* Package name    : doom3-dhewm3
  Version         : 0~git20130917
  Upstream Author : Daniel Gibson
* URL             : https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3
* License         : GPL, BSD, ZLIB
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : GPL Source code modifcation of the Doom3 engone

dhewm 3 is a Doom 3 GPL source modification.
The goal of dhewm 3 is bring DOOM 3 with the help of SDL to all suitable
plaforms.

Bugs present in the original DOOM 3 will be fixed (when identified) without
altering the original gameplay.

Compared to the original DOOM 3, the changes of dhewm 3 worth mentioning are:

    64bit port
    SDL for low level OS support, OpenGL and input handling
    OpenAL for audio output, all OS specific audio backends are gone
    OpenAL EFX for EAX reverb effects (read: EAX on all platforms)
    A portable build system based on CMake

The packaging will be done under the Debian-games-team umbrella.


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