Developer with VDrift

[shingo-san]

Hi, I am interested in the project and I would like to reuse VDrift its 3D engine to offer a game drive on Linux. The easiest way would be to contribute to the project but I want to create something a little different that offers VDrift.

I am passionate about Japanese cars and I want to create a game solely around these cars. I'm not trying to create an ultra-realistic racing game with very powerful cars. I want to offer players to play with cars D / C / B / A and concentrate my efforts on a solo career, and why not online. It will start with a used car cheap and prove on the track and on the street to earn money and experience. I wish to highlight the tuning and improving performance. I really want to recreate the spirit VDrift with JDM.

I do not know if this is too ambitious. I learned to program in C but I know C #. I learned C # and XNA because I wanted to develop my own games but it's a proprietary development tools and closed. This is important because I want to develop primarily on Linux. Missing too many games and I want to make my contribution. I do not have any knowledge in modeling with Blender, I expect to learn but I think I will select mainly cars and circuits already present with VDrift.

I come to my questions ... Is it possible and legal to get the source code to create its own set of car? What advice would you give me?

Thank you.