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> And titles like "Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition" I feel hurt the industry hugely by presenting the legal departments an excuse to deny source release You won'
by lloeki 13y ago
> And titles like "Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition" I feel hurt the industry hugely by presenting the legal departments an excuse to deny source release
You won't get much with just the engine source when what matter in those games is the art and general content. Plus this did not stop people to hack the BG saga into BGTuTu.
Also, http://www.gemrb.org/ http://www.gemrb.org/
- zanny 13y agoThis is exactly why I mention Baldurs Gate, because dozens of smart people took thousands of hours to reverse engineer what would have taken the legal team hours and one coder 15 minutes to relicense and release publicly. Also, the Infinity Engine was used in half a dozen titles, and while it is detrimental that pretty much nobody releases game assets under permissive terms, my point is that games are lost to obscurity because their engines don't work. For better or worse, the game data is just as compatible with its engine as it ever was.