https://lemmy.zip/post/37479548

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is uncharted territory and we are essentially running an experiment. For this reason we’re not licensing or open sourcing the game’s assets - the art, music, and IP will still be protected for the time being. But all of the code that makes the game run will be made public. We have not chosen the exact license under which we will be open sourcing the game’s code, but it will be one of the OSI’s approved open source licenses.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

    Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.

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    • bork@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like SpacetimeDB is where they are really heading right now.

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  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that makes sense, especially if they buy it and dont make it

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• popcar2@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s… Kind of insane! I’ve been following Bitcraft every now since it got announced but I never expected them to go to this direction. The blog post makes sense but I’m curious what license they’re going to use. It could be a legal minefield to try and stop people from stealing the game, re-branding it, then profiting off of it.

  It’ll be really curious to see how this plays out because there isn’t really any major games that went open source, much less one that’s going to be actively monetized like Bitcraft.

  Our focus will be on a smooth and successful Early Access launch on Steam, which is our highest priority. Only once we are happy with the state of the game will we start the process of open sourcing BitCraft.

  Anyway, it sounds like open-sourcing the game might take a while. I hope early access works out for them.

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  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Asset flips aren’t as straightforward and easy as ppl claim, but yeah will be a thing prob a non issue like red eclipses crypto clones

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• copd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lmao bitcraft is not AAA. misleading title

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The team is 22 people… so that’s definitely not AAA

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interesting, at first glance it seems to be a new take on what Wurm online was

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  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, it’s basically the same thing as Veloren, another current open source mmo voxel world builder rpg. But looks like maybe smaller voxels on average.

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• Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the kind of move I like to see.

  I worked on a fork of another Open-Sourced MMO (forked from Ryzom Online). Lot of nice idea (like spell crafting, among other), but the tech stack and system was so old it was more a pain than anything. You couldn’t even jump in that games 😂.

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• ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are so few open source games, they have just cemented a permanent audience for themselves for the next 10 years by announcing this.

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• pulido@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Minecraft legit ruined a generation of gamers.

  Also, no Linux version?

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    especial that they say that they run on open source operating system

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you mean ruined?

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Theybsaid “focus on PC”, not “focus on Windows”.

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• O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where did you read AAA? cuz it ain’t that

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Neat! I’ll wishlist it but I doubt my PC can handle it worth a damn. Hopefully it comes to PS5 and my bros and I can start us a nice little commune!

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  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the mean-time, Veloren already exists, and seems to be exactly what this is planning to be. An open source voxel mmo world builder rpg.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neat, thanks!

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Initial focus on PC”

    I hope they’re using those words correctly and I can pay it on Linux.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair just about everything seems to

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• chonkyninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never heard of it, nor played it. But I’ll definitely buy a copy to support development and future curious minds!

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• XGRiDEN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mhm… what’s Bitcraft?

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An in-develpment MMO

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    • XGRiDEN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ic ic

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like Veloren

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