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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Absolute fucking clown. He's just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is...

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 101 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] null@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that's not even what Stop Killing Games is about...

[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] null@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Of course, but the point is that it isn't a factor in Thor's decision.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

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