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Let’s make games open source, so future generations can enjoy them (jairajdevadiga.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

There is a reason doom runs on everything.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wishful thinking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not only do the games need to be opensource, but their toolchains too. It would also be great if everything were stored in content-addressable storage. Then it wouldn't be necessary to track down stuff by follow URL paths to dead domains.

I hope that opensource game engines become more popular. It might just be a matter of time. Blender is now very popular and that's opensource.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I agree, it is better to be open source all the way. I believe Godot became more popular after Unity tried to charge developers per install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I agree with you, that’s why I don’t believe in paying for closed source

There is an issue with letting future generations enjoy content in that they may be less inclined to buy remasters or sequels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Let's not create 4 reposts such that the discussion is at one place and not spread out paper thin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That's an inherent problem of the current Lemmy implementation, though, isn't it?

If you don't spread-post, it doesn't reach the appropriate communities and people, and communities are missing content. If you do, discussions are spread by community and posts, with only cross-post links under the post.

I'm hoping to someday be surprised that they are suddenly in a shared view by default. I haven't checked whether there's a feature request for it.

[+] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For good reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New here. Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well for me personally it was two reasons. First was a lot of politically charged content. I don't want to see that stuff any more than I already am forced to, so I just block all of it normally, but on the ml servers it was tiring blocking so much so I just blocked the whole instance Second was the ml admin's handling of the anime community that used to be hosted there and is now hosted on ani.social. I honestly don't remember too much other than the admin claiming something along the lines of "all anime characaters are children" or something like that. I don't remember it exactly, but it was some mindless take that communicated "we don't want anything related to anime on our server."