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Barotrauma is an excellent example of fully "source available" in a multiplayer game. Practically speaking, Rimworld and Minecraft are like this. Mindustry is
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Barotrauma is an excellent example of fully "source available" in a multiplayer game. Practically speaking, Rimworld and Minecraft are like this.
Mindustry is an excellent example of the "have your cake and eat it" open source model. Its sold on Steam, but it's GPL 3.0 and free to download elsewhere. Shrug
- barbariangrunge 3y agoUnreal engine is source available too I didn’t realize rimworlds source was available. I’m curious how some of their simulation works, that’s definitely interesting. If the Eula is friendly, I may take a look some day
- doctorpangloss 3y ago> I didn’t realize rimworlds source was available. It isn't, it's decompiled.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAnd purposely not obfuscated. Yeah, that really is bare minimum, but its still better than the deliberate obfuscation of many similar games. Minecraft, meanwhile, is obfuscated but with public mappings. That is a weird situation, but it still works kinda like the game being source available.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoMinecraft's source has been decompiled multiple times, and its base modeling is IIRC pretty well understood, also from a server-side point of view. It doesn't seem to be particularly advanced, at least the traditional Java version anyway. Can't speak for the Bedrock edition, that's a C++ optimized version for mobile and consoles.
- Endy 3y agoMindustry is an excellent game, and I love the amount of work that the dev has been putting into it. In the time I've played it, the single-player content has deepened significantly - from a mostly-linear campaign to almost an entire world to play with; then on to a second planet with a different play style. I have to stand in awe of people who are both creative and able to manifest that into creative products.