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maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.

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• null@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But that’s not even what Stop Killing Games is about…

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  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t need to open source the code to release the server binaries.

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      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But you could open source it and have the community figure it out themselves

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced

        It’s not unlikely, it’s literally impossible.

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• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Undertale also has really bad code and it’s a great game

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    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example

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