Submitted 1 year ago by Zenlix@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
Is it actually missing the engine? That looked like it was there when I skimmed a couple of the repos
Missing assets is pretty common when they open source commercial games, the rights of the art is often more complicated than just doing the game code.
I wonder how hard it would be to make some minimal placeholder resources/assets, sufficient to build the game and for it to run, even if it won’t look good or be particularly playable.
I like it when the only useful piece of information is missing: github.com/electronicarts
The resources are missing but you could already have those everywhere else on the internet.
Now what’s missing is where will all the fans and modders hang around :-)
I sure hope we’ll get some nice rehashing out of this!
But not resources
It requires more vespene gas!
What gas? Your ass is full of tiberium! :)
Mondez@lemdro.id 1 year ago
They released the engines for the games minus 3rd party libraries they didn’t have rights to. Working builds were available within a day of the code being released as people found copies or wrote replacements for the missing code.
Zenlix@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thats awesome!