Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
Syndicate pleeeeease :)
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
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Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#32One of the best things that could happen to the gaming landscape would be if companies like EA and similar learned from Microsoft's move to open sourcing more software and involving the community more gives them a lot more goodwill and business as a side-effect. And then us gamers get more long-lived games as a benefit as well.
A lot of newer games probably include middleware licensed from other companies that make relicensing more challenging
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#33People pining for other games might find this list handy: https://osgameclones.com
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#34I am really impressed that EA went with the GPL v3 license. I would have expected them to use the MIT license.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#35I loved both of these games when they came out, but I'm completely shocked that enough people still play this game
to make open sourcing the code 25 years later a newsworthy event.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#36One of the best things that could happen to the gaming landscape would be if companies like EA and similar learned from Microsoft's move to open sourcing more software and involving the community more gives them a lot more goodwill and business as a side-effect. And then us gamers get more long-lived games as a benefit as well.
A lot of newer games probably include middleware licensed from other companies that make relicensing more challenging
Also, the SDKs for console ports may be under NDA. I’m looking at you, Nintendo Switch.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#37Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
I'd love to play Syndicate again.
Does anyone know if there are any similar modern games btw?
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#38Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
Yea, I'd always wanted to make a Dungeon Keeper 2 clone. Please!
I wonder why it's not more common to open source abandonware that has exactly zero remaining commercial value. These game companies don't even have to remain as maintainers/stewards of the code. It doesn't even have to compile. Just release it, and many people will get it to work! How much expense could it be to get an intern to upload the code to GitHub, slap a license on it, and never look at it again?
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#39Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?
Yes! The source for Magic Carpet would be awesome!
Let's check https://osgameclones.com/#magic-carpet-games : there's a ‘reverse engineering of game Magic Carpet 2 from assembler to c/c++ language’.
Re: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
#40I loved both of these games when they came out, but I'm completely shocked that enough people still play this game to make open sourcing the code 25 years later a newsworthy event.
Check out the OpenRA project https://www.openra.net/