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>A friend explained to me that the real benefit of foss is the community building huge things together, faster and better than any individual. Any example of a

>A friend explained to me that the real benefit of foss is the community building huge things together, faster and better than any individual. Any example of a highly successful video game developed from start as open source by the community as opposed to a company releasing their source code for free after launching a game?

Kinrany 3y ago
Space station 13 is the best example. It technically started closed source, but has been open source with countless forks existing in parallel for at least 90% of its lifetime.
- cmdrk 3y ago
  AFAIK, SS13 had a number of source code leaks that resulted in popular forks as well. Not exactly the spirit of FOSS.
  - ZeWaka 3y ago
    Not really. No servers based off of leaked source code have really lasted - they get nuked by the larger community.
GeneralMayhem 3y ago
The only ones I'm familiar with that people actually play for reasons other than the novelty/political statement of playing a FOSS game are ASCII roguelikes (most notably Nethack) and a menagerie of remakes of commercial games that have now surpassed the originals in features, graphics, and system compatibility (OpenTTD, OpenXCOM, etc.)
qwery 3y ago
Not sure what qualifies as 'highly successful', 'from the start', etc. but Mindustry[0] is GPL, is actively updated, accepts and includes contributions from third parties and is available commercially. [0] https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Also it's fun, addicting, and pretty polished.