But that’s not even what Stop Killing Games is about…
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maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Absolute fucking clown. He’s just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is…
null@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you can’t or don’t want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the server’s code and let the community keep the game running.
null@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
You don’t need to open source the code to release the server binaries.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 week ago
But you could open source it and have the community figure it out themselves
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 week ago
But even then it's astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced. Old games will be grandfathered in and it would apply only to future game releases.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced
It’s not unlikely, it’s literally impossible.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Not sure if it’s still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card
Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Undertale also has really bad code and it’s a great game
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 week ago
That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.