At one of the previous MLUG meetings, we watched a movie called Elephants Dream that was created with blender.  A lot has been going on since then and I wanted to make a short article with what those changes were.

The Blender Institute has just released a new project. After releasing under the Creative Common two awesome Pixar quality short subjects Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny (get it here in 720p or here in 1080p or just watch it here ), the Institute is now releasing Yo Frankie! , a fully free and open source 3D game under the Creative Common license, everything from the artwork to the code is freely re-usable and modifiable even commercially.

By running the game directly from Blender, you can even modify it and see what happens directly from the software, a nice way to learn how to do your own game.

To run the game, just download Blender for your OS and open the file "levels/start_menu.blend" from Blender, this file and all the needed ones are available from this isoHunt release . You can also support the project by buying the DVD of the game here .