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Commercial games benefit way less than other code from being open source, since they are very short-lived projects once released. Further, games would be very
by jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
Commercial games benefit way less than other code from being open source, since they are very short-lived projects once released.
Further, games would be very easy to copy for users, to develop cheats for multiplayer, to duplicate by competitors, etc.
- gentleman11 6y agoThe games, sure. But what about the tooling? Behaviour trees, fsm visualizers, debug tools, better linters, multiplayer frameworks, ecs implementations, or even just tech talks. Outside of game dev, there are so many tech talks all the time on every possible subject, sharing knowledge. In game dev, there is GDC and a few others, but it’s just far less common
- tpxl 6y agoThe closest of multiplayer games die the day they shut down the servers. The longest lived games are the longest lived because they are open enough for the community to keep them alive.