Are there any examples of an "abandoned" game's fans successfully getting the game to be open-sourced?
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Freespace 2 comes to mind. The whole game engine was open source not just the game itself.
Looks like there is still a community building on it too. https://scp.indiegames.us/ -
Early Dooms and Quakes https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM but they aren't open source for the reasons you wanted.
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Congrats!! As I'm sure you can imagine, I am incredibly excited for COI!
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I loved Sacred 2! I remember save scumming to preserve my 0 deaths streak. I'd hit the power button on the Xbox before it could save, risking corrupting my character every time.
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Magewars had a brief revival
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I tried looking into this and I'm having trouble setting it up, although I'm on linux so that might be my doing.
I followed the guide on Darkmatters
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As I understand it, something like that happened with the game, Alliance. It was a RTS where humans had to control all the units that the commander build and ordered around.
I learned about this, probably 15 years ago, and I never played, so a lot of this might be outdated or just plain wrong.
I think Microsoft published the game, and eventually abandoned it. It still had a thriving mod community but they were struggling due to the lack of source code and support. Apparently, years after working on the game, one of the designers happened across an Internet forum talking about the struggles they were having. The designer then went back to his bosses and said, "We abandoned this years ago, can I just give them the source code?" I guess they did and since then the mod started making HUGE fundamental changes to the game.
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Thanks again!
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No problem, thanks!
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That's cool, thank you for telling the background!
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I'm also on Linux.
Ensure you have docker and docker-compose installed.
IIRC you also need the windows server files# .
I'll get back to you with my server compose file. -
Sorry - I wasn't clear. I can't seem to join any servers. Some comments mention changing the default server to "hex41.de" so I changed that but I can't connect.
Maybe it's since been taken down or something.