kednar

kednar, 23 days ago

When I asked (or rather, nervously rambled) about whether making engines and games Free (libre) and open source is a way to protect and preserve that culture, they had terrible misconceptions about what that means!

All came to say that making their games open source would require managing a repository, a community, and they didn't have time for that.

But that's completely optional!! Just release your game with a folder that says "source code k tx bye" and a txt with the license and be done!

kednar, 23 days ago

It was so frustrating that they were talking about the politics and power dynamics of proprietary, corporate-owned tools and didn't stop to think what that means for any cultural work.

One of them even made a proprietary game engine. Which, yeah fine, but doesn't it miss the point?

I should have said something back but the mic was far gone. And honestly I was just disappointed.

kednar, 23 days ago

Anyhow maybe I should do a little hyper talk about liberating your games at the next A MAZE.? It's an interesting discussion and there's so many myths and misunderstandings.

I've been interested in this for over a decade and I haven't seen the revolution I expected where indie games would be Libre and open source. And I think it's mostly due to misinformation.

Alright let's do it!

#gamedev #freesoftware #OpenSource

kednar, 23 days ago

I mentioned Pico-8 as an example. I LOVE the thing. And yet, isn't it susceptible to oblivion, being proprietary? Isn't it another walled garden that one day will close?

I guess those games published as HTML or binary will still be playable but how about the ones playable only through splore?

As long as we keep making games in proprietary walled gardens, those games, those engines, won't belong to us and could (and will) disappear.

#pico8 #gamedev #freesoftware #OpenSource