The upcoming MMO BitCraft Online is doing something very unusual for the genre, it's going to be open source.
  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    25 days ago

    I hope we see a blossoming of high quality open source games. Beyond all Reason is looking towards a Steam release within the year or so and it’s really impressive how much love can be put into a game that is run almost entirely by donations!

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      BAR is tight. It will be nice when there are a bunch of shitty players for me to play, few people are as bad as I am.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          24 days ago

          I once played a game with another complete waste of bandwidth, and it was so much fun. Once there are enough players for meaningful ranking it will be amazing.

      • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
        2·
        26 days ago

        it’s click to move to target. you can set WASD in control settings though I think

        • oyzmo@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 days ago

          sadly, you can’t- it’s click to move only … I tried, but can’t get used to it. The game looks real fun though, so kinda irritating.

        • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
          1·
          26 days ago

          Ah you’re right, you can rebind camera movement but still have to click to move. At least it’s not a game where fast action is needed, but hopefully they do add movement binds in the full game.

  • CluckN@lemmy.world
    51·
    27 days ago

    How do you do MMO’s open source? Wouldn’t it be easier to find exploits?

    • gheesh@lemmy.world
      21·
      27 days ago

      Probably, and that’s the point, since said exploits can be then publicly acknowledged and patched.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      1·
      25 days ago

      Judging by the fact that I have never heard of the game or the company before, I guess it’s tiny and obscure, meaning it would have either been completely ignored by hackers or some hacker would completely flatten it with hacks.

      Probably nothing about that has hanged by open sourcing it.