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I'm not feeling badgered. :) Since I first made Artemis, the option to open-source has been available, and I had several reasons not to do so. First, I've alw
by techbear 5y ago
I'm not feeling badgered. :)
Since I first made Artemis, the option to open-source has been available, and I had several reasons not to do so. First, I've always been a very lone-wolf coder, and I find it hard to collaborate on big projects with anyone. Either they don't move fast enough for me, or I lose interest entirely. It's a real personal failing.
Second, my code is embarrassing. I've come a long way since I started Artemis 11 years ago. But I now treat my own Artemis 2 code like a toxic waste dump; I don't wanna go back there. So the idea of exposing anyone else to my codebase isn't exciting.
Third, I've actually made very good money from Artemis. I don't make much now, but at the height of Artemis's popularity in 2013, I made over 100k that year. I did it by asking for the sale, DRM-free, money-back-guarantee, and ensuring people that the project was still alive. Donations are great, but there's nothing wrong with asking for an honest sale.
- marcodiego 5y agoI'm glad you're not feeling badgered. Honest question: suppose Artemis was created by a small game studio. Suppose the studio maintained paid to use servers for people to play it on-line with most server-side processing so cheaters wouldn't have any advantage. Also suppose the entire art not freely available. Would open sourcing it affect how much money could be made from it?
- jholman 5y agoBought ABSB in 2010, still got the receipt, $43.13 Canadian. Tried to get an upgrade code to ABSB 2 in 2013. Never heard back, despite trying every email address I could find. Pretty disappointing. I hope you're doing well, though. But I was sad.
- techbear 5y agoI'm sorry. Contact me at https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/contact.html#/ https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/contact.html#/ and I'll give you the upgrade.