Cross-Platform Open-Source Game Engine

Getting Started

What to do first

To participate in COGE, you need a SourceForge account and to have a project manager add you to the project.

Developing

Install GIT and clone the COGE repository by typing,
git clone ssh://USERNAME@coge.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/coge
...where USERNAME is your SourceForge username.

Read and study the official GIT tutorial,
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html

To pull recent changes from the respository,
git pull

To add new files, commit changes, and push your updates to the central respository,
git add .
git commit "COMMENT"
git push
...where COMMENT is your detailed description of the commit. If you omit a comment, you will be presented with a editor screen where you may type a multi-line comment at the top of the file, save, and exit to complete the commit.

Project Information

About this project:

This is the Cross-Platform Open-Source Game Engine project ("coge")

This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Jul 7, 2009, and is described by the project team as follows:

COGE (Cross-Platform Open-Source Game Engine) is intended to be a full-featured, cross-platform, open-source game engine. The engine will provide a low to mid-level toolkit for networking, sound, graphics, physics, and artificial intelligence.

About SourceForge.net:

SourceForge.net is the world's largest provider of hosting for Open Source software development projects. SourceForge.net provides a variety of services to projects, including a download mirror network, collaborative development tools (like CVS and Subversion), and tools to support discussion and support. These services are provided to projects and their end-users free-of-charge.

About Open Source:

Of benefit to users, Open Source software is licensed so you can download and use the software free-of-charge. The source code for this software is made available free-of-charge, you (or a programmer you hire) can make changes to this software to better meet your needs, and you can release your changed code back to the community passing the benefit on to other users.

The exact license terms used by this project on their project summary page and in the licensing documents included in their downloads.