[Black Wolf]

Is it a TC for Freespace 2, or a game that utilizes the FS2Open engine?

I've been wondering about this a lot since the BSG mod was referred to as such (i.e. as a game) by a guy on the scifi.com boards a few days ago. At what oint does the crossover occur? Has it happened for TBP?

[redmenace]

It is either. They package it as a Standalone.
But many like me just use it as a TC

[stithe2000]

A total conversion from old code to the new refined code... With all new toys to boot!

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

A total conversion usually needs the original game to run, so I'd say TBP is either a standalone mod or a game using FSOpen engine.

[RavenTS]

Originally posted by Lt.Cannonfodder
A total conversion usually needs the original game to run...

Sure? I always thought this would be a important fact of TCs (that they just use the engine, not more) and here they use the FS2-Engine, not really more...and as the FS2-Engine is Opensource, everybody could download it...

[StratComm]

I would not consider TBP to be a unique game.  It is still FS2 in mechanics, and last I checked there was not a TBP-specific branch of the engine either, so regardless of how it is distributed it is still a TC of another game.  Whether people actually need the original game or not is somewhat pointless.  However, in advertising this, it is not a TC because you distribute the engine along with the content.  It's a TC for an open-source engine, which is a bit of a different animal.

[Sigma957]

It was originally a TC of the old engine but since the evolution of scp,it has become a whole new ball game.

[Getter Robo G]

Wouldn't "Stand-alone TC" work best as it implies that it combines both concepts?

[Sigma957]

Sounds good to me.