About

Project Apricot


After Orange and Peach, Blender Institute continued with a new open project: Apricot. This time it wasn’t a movie but a 3D game! Starting february 1st 2008, a small team of again the best 3D artist and developers worked on a game jointly with the on-line community. The main character in the game has been based on the short 3D animation open movie Peach. The project ended in august, and in october 2008 the DVD and game was released.

The Game

The original project goal was to work on a cross platform game (at least Linux, Windows, OS X), using Blender for modeling and animation, Crystal Space as 3D engine and delivery platform, and Python for some magic scripting to glue things together. The purpose was to not only make a compelling 3D game experience, but especially to improve and validate the open source 3D game creation pipeline, with industry-standard conditions.

Halfway during the project, we noticed the great advances made in Blender’s internal Game Engine, so we’ve added delivering the project entirely in Blender as a target for Apricot as well.

Targets

- Validation: create full functional game prototype, industry quality

- Crystal Space development: HDR lighting, game logic, character animation

- Blender development: animation prototyping, pipeline improvements, GLSL (node) shading editor, improvements in logic editing (states), general Blender GE improvements.

- Realize in Open Source (GPL/LGPL), deliver in Open Content (Creative Commons)

- Education: Training/workshops, presentations, documentation, DVD

How

The Blender Foundation and Crystal Space community will be the main financiers for Apricot. Additional support will be by Grupo Ikusnet and the Dutch Game Days Foundation. As for the previous open movies, a pre-sale campaign to purchase the DVD has been organized by the Blender Foundation as well as by Crystal Space.

Sponsors or Partners

Sponsors who have helped realizing Apricot:

Donations

Blender Foundation donations are still welcome for future projects. Click on the button below, or use foundation(at)blender.org to do the payment to


Creative Commons

The Apricot open game project, the data we’ve published online and on the DVDs, and all of the contents on this website has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license 3.0. If any content on this site is not licensed as such, it will be clearly indicated. In short, this means you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.The attribution is:(c) copyright Blender Foundation | apricot.blender.org. Excluded from the Creative Commons is: all logos on this website (including Blender logo, Apricot logo, Yo Frankie! logo, Creative Commons logo) and associated trademarks.

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39 Responses to “About”
  1. Bug tracing - Skrypty PHP Download :::.. » Blog Archive » Crystal Space 3D && Blender says: January 24th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    [...] 他们恋爱、XXX后产生的是Apricot项目 http://apricot.blender.org/?page_id=8 [...]

  2. Unterstützt das Apricot Projekt! - Blender-Buch Blog says: January 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    [...] Apricot ist das erste OpenGame Projekt der Blender-Foundation. Ziel ist es Blender und CrystalSpace als Gameengine so gut zu verbinden, das in Zukunft auch mehr künstlerisch begabte Designer Spiele mache können und das auf durchaus professionellem Level. Natürlich wäre es schön wenn die interne Gameengine (die ansich genau diesen Punkt bietet) dazu benutzt würde, aber naja, man (ich) kann nicht alles haben. [...]

  3. Dimens says: January 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    [...] para o Blender Institute e o Projeto Apricot, voc

  4. Blender Open Movie Project 2 Released says: June 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    [...] Blender Foundation isn’t sitting still. They started work on the Apricot project in February, this time attempting to show off Blender’s ability in the game development field by [...]

  5. Blender Open Movie Project 2 Released - BuzzYA! says: June 2nd, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    [...] Blender Foundation isn’t sitting still. They started work on the Apricot project in February, this time attempting to show off Blender’s ability in the game development field by [...]

  6. Apricot » Blog Archive » Apricot on NLGD Festival of Games 08 says: June 16th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    [...] event is a platform and a meeting point for the European games community. NLGD is one of the sponsors of the Apricot game. The NLGD offers a platform to the strongly upcoming game-industry. Too often one tends to think [...]

  7. Aissen’s log – Démo jouable du projet Apricot says: July 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    [...] deux précédents projets, qui avaient pour but de créer des courts métrages libres, le projet Apricot se concentre maintenant sur un jeu vidéo. Cela permettra très certainement d’améliorer la [...]

  8. Phil LaPier » The World In A Blender says: July 4th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    [...] Institute even has an open game in development based on the Big Buck Bunny, called Apricot. I can’t wait to give it a test run. There is no release date posted on the website…. [...]

  9. Dopo le arance e le pesche ecco le albicocche « Ercolinux’s Weblog says: July 8th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    [...] regola per avere successo. Il gioco è previsto per tutte le piattaforme PC: Linux, Mac e Windows. Qui potete trovare il sito con tutte le [...]

  10. Year 5’s blog says: July 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    [...] regola per avere successo. Il gioco è previsto per tutte le piattaforme PC: Linux, Mac e Windows. Qui potete trovare il sito con tutte le [...]

  11. Crismon’s Blog » Blog Archive » Apricot: un open game targato Blender Foundation says: July 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    [...] In ogni caso per maggiori informazioni sulla notizia consultare il sito ufficiale. [...]

  12. TuxJournal.net » Apricot Open Game, prima demo giocabile says: July 14th, 2008 at 1:05 am

    [...] finalmente disponibile sul suo sito ufficiale la prima demo giocabile di Apricot OpenGame, un gioco open source per la cui produzione sta lavorando un team di grafici e [...]

  13. Apricot Open Game, prima demo giocabile « GmG’s Weblog says: July 14th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    [...] Game, prima demo giocabile 14 07 2008 E’ finalmente disponibile sul suo sito ufficiale la prima demo giocabile di Apricot OpenGame, un gioco open source per la cui produzione sta lavorando un team di grafici e [...]

  14. freelabs @ sbarrax.it » Blog Archive » Apricot - Open Game! says: July 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    [...] Clicca qui per saperne di più su Apricot [...]

  15. Yo Frankie! | The Mac Gamer says: August 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    [...] Blender Institute are making a game! After Orange and Peach, Blender Institute continues with a new open project: Apricot. This time it [...]

  16. Pougomiggic says: August 30th, 2008 at 1:16 am

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  17. Yo frankie : par les auteurs de Big Buck Bunny | Technofeliz says: September 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    [...] équipe remet ça, mais pour créer un jeu vidéo : Yo Frankie. Nom de code du projet : Apricot (toujours un nom de fruit… [...]

  18. proslaviy says: September 17th, 2008 at 12:34 am

    Hi, how I can send PM?

  19. coward says: October 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    It would’ve been nice if there where some mail-address or similar to contact the projects leader(s) regarding different things not supposed to be written in comments and the like.

    Like a humble request for updates :-)

  20. Yo Frankie!, el juego creado con Blender, a la venta says: November 19th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    [...] muchos hayáis oído hablar de Yo Frankie!, un juego que forma parte del proyecto Apricot. Dicha iniciativa surgió a partir de un corto realizado con Blender llamado BigBuckBunny y que [...]

  21. Yo Frankie!: El juego creado con Blender está a la venta » El blog de Marvin & familia says: November 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    [...] muchos hayáis oído hablar de Yo Frankie!, un juego que forma parte del proyecto Apricot. Dicha iniciativa surgió a partir de un corto realizado con Blender llamado BigBuckBunny y que [...]

  22. Magicalmel83 says: December 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Hi

    what is the aim and goals of this game,me and a friend have both downloaded it and are unable to figure out what the aim is and what we are supposed to do.

  23. Injuffunparee says: December 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    hello it is test. WinRAR provides the full RAR and ZIP file support, can decompress CAB, GZIP, ACE and other archive formats.
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  24. BlusuankGainsoscix says: January 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    gqitdxwfphkyhpwzwell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)

  25. naiden says: January 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    Hi
    Can the team say wich linux used while developing and where i can find some dovumentation on how to install and configure all the stuff

  26. anonymous says: January 12th, 2009 at 12:35 am

    Hi Naiden, I always like to see the credits in the end of the movies I watch. I have notice in ( Elephants Dream - http://www.vimeo.com/1132937 ) there are a list of Open Sourece Projects softwares they are specially thanks, and they mention Ubuntu Linux, Gimp, Inkscape, CinePaint, Phyton and others. In another videos on Youtube, showing the Peach studio and their team, I saw the default Ubuntu’s background, version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). In this video they were working on ( Big Buck Bunny ) movie. I’m using the Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex - released in October 2008. You just need go to the menu -> System -> Administration -> Software Sources, so you have to check the option (Community-maintained Open Source software (universe), confirm clicking the close button and finally clicking on the reload button to update the repository. After that you should open a terminal and type this line: sudo apt-get install blender, confirm the question with Y and you will be ready to have fun. The Blender will be in the Graphics menu. Sorry if you already know these information about Linux, but I think it would be helpful to other people here. The Ubuntu is to easy to use/update and install new packages! PS. The Yafray render, will be installed as well, the Blender is 2.46 version. I hope you understood my bad English. ;)

  27. stumon says: January 12th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Hello! Thank you for your work!
    What about supporting mouse control, changing screen resolution and antialiasing settings in Yo Frankie?

  28. ivchaya says: February 14th, 2009 at 2:13 am

    Предлагаем услуги: проверка и ремонт измерительных приборов – анализаторы, вольтметры, appa; продажа и доставка измерительных приборов. Также предлагаем: продажа проммебели, гарантийное обслуживание.

  29. tnchaya says: February 14th, 2009 at 2:14 am

    Предлагаем услуги: проверка и ремонт измерительных приборов – анализаторы, вольтметры, fluke; продажа и доставка измерительных приборов. Предлагаем также: продажа ремонтных станций, послегарантийное обслуживание.

  30. vxbrianne says: February 14th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Квалифицированные услуги: проверка и ремонт измерительных приборов – мультиметры, вольтметр, fluke; продажа и поставки измерительных приборов. Предлагаем также: продажа ремонтных станций, послегарантийное обслуживание.

  31. Jonathan says: February 17th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    The game won’t start on my Windows XP computer. I have 4MB of RAM and a Pentium 4 processor, which may not be the latest and greatest, but should be enough to run Yo Frankie! Clicking in the .exe file starts something: low-res boxes blink up and are gone. Firewall set to accept the .exe file as an exception. Any ideas what’s happening and why? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Jonathan

  32. mat says: February 18th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    hey how do i play?
    what are the controls?

  33. Mikuro says: February 26th, 2009 at 3:16 am

    @jonathan, do you mean 4gb of ram? thats quite a lot for a P4 machine.. my guess is your graphics card is not supported. Check to make sure your card has enough vram (memory) and high enough pixel shader version.

  34. T.O. says: February 27th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    I’ve wandered your site and still have no idea what the hell who or what Yo Frankie is, besides a game. I’m not downloadinf jack without some visuals, descriptions, general plot or something.

  35. martin says: February 28th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    After all the effort that went into greating this awesome free game, somebody really should create a .DEB package and include it into Ubuntu so that people can install and play the game easily! A lot of people find it hard to download ZIP files, extract files, chmod to make things executable and so on…

    If someone knows how to create .DEB files please help out here:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/311938

  36. blengine says: March 2nd, 2009 at 6:12 am

    Everyone that cares what T.O. downloads, raise your hand.

  37. jamjamnorman says: March 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 am

    Not me.

  38. shawn says: June 13th, 2009 at 1:02 am

    How do I run and play the game?

  39. ridwan says: June 27th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Hello the founder of yo frankie i would like to ask u a few questions and please send me an
    e-mail , could u give me ur e-mail address and tell me how u made this game because i would like to use blender and make a game but please reply as soon as possible.

    THANKYOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CO-OPERATION

    RIDWAAN FARAH

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