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I do find the closed nature of the project problematic, but not for the reason you list: if I invest many hours into making games on the platform I want to be s

by simias 6y ago

I do find the closed nature of the project problematic, but not for the reason you list: if I invest many hours into making games on the platform I want to be sure that I'll still be able to run them easily 10 years from now. Hopefully if the author ever decides to stop working on the project they'll release the source code for the community to keep it alive.

bzzzt 6y ago
Even if the author released sources you would not get any guarantee the games can run easily. There needs to be a community that is familiar with the source and keeps maintaining it. There are a lot of game engine like projects on Github with full code available that are anything but easily runnable on modern operating systems.
- simias 6y ago
  It wouldn't be a silver bullet but it would at least make it possible. See Flash for instance: I'm sure there would be enough interest to maintain a FLOSS fork of the Flash player but it's not possible without reverse-engineering it and reimplementing it from scratch.