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Do you find open source games interesting/good thing as a gamer? (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you find open source games interesting/good thing as a gamer?

@games I am a game developer working on game called Mushy Score. I decided that my niche would be to create open source games. I think these could be helpful for developers or teachers to teach about games and how they are made. Most open source games are small game jam games, but there are few “real games” that are open source like 0 A.D. and Doom. As a non-developer do you think open source games could be good thing?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I think they are a good thing, since in general you get better compatibility with more esotheric hardware, for example i've seen people run godot games on raspberry pi boards, which is pretty nice; also as you mentioned doom and 0 A.D., both of them have prolific modding communities because it's easy to make mods when you have the source of the game, and in the case of doom in particular the fact that it's open source allowed people to build lauchers to make it run on newer computers without needing dosbox and co. To even have a chance to play.