On: Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclai...

[metamemetics]

"It was impossible to buy the licenses for the Western software used as the game's engine. The Iranians had to rely on less powerful open-source software that was freely available on the Web."

The open source engine they are using is OGRE3D. http://www.ogre3d.org/ It is getting pretty impressive for an open-source project. Former Blizzard North\Diablo 2 developers released a game called Torchlight that uses it.

[cheald → metamemetics]

I was using Ogre years ago, and it was a great product then - it seems to have only gotten better with time.

It's a really quality piece of software.