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My mind about this has always been in a couple directions, but none of them point towards not open sourcing things. So, for one, I very heavily doubt that anyon
by Shinmera 4y ago
My mind about this has always been in a couple directions, but none of them point towards not open sourcing things. So, for one, I very heavily doubt that anyone would take this source code in Lisp of all things and release a product that could actually damage my sales. And even if they did so history shows that there's very likely practically nothing I could do about it. I'd just have to be upset about it happening, with no real chance of repercussion.
It is far more important to me to show confidence in my vision and to let other people learn from what I've done. In my view a lot more games should be open source, because far too much of the process is hidden behind mysticism, with far too many people wasting a ton of time reinventing things from scratch.
And, well, finally, I'd ultimately like to make everything I do available for free, anyhow. The only reason I'm selling Kandria is because there is no UBI in this country and probably won't be for many years to come, so I have to fund things somehow.
- pwillia7 4y agohear hear
- westmeal 4y agoYou're a pretty rad dude
- Shinmera 4y agoAw, thank you.
- vlunkr 4y agoVery cool. Coming from the web dev world, the gaming world seems very protective of everything about development. This makes sense coming from the AAA studios, but it sadly extends to many indie devs as well. Hopefully there will be more embracing of the open source model in the future.
- Shinmera 4y agoYeah. Even around announcements and reveals there's a lot of scares going around. The industry has historically relied very heavily on a big launch hit, so the marketing around that had to be very carefully massaged, and release of information controlled as a consequence. I'm personally sceptical that it's healthy to be this caged about things, but I don't have any numbers to back this up -- though I suspect nobody else does either, given how marketing is always just a crapshoot.