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Oaktales engi fork
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Public Release #23

Closed paked closed 9 years ago

paked commented 9 years ago

I understand that this is being worked on for Newbrict/Oaktale purposes but I think that the general public would benefit from the updates too. I actually receive messages relatively often about what is happening to this project. People are interested in making games in Go. Thoughts?

Newbrict commented 9 years ago

I don't want to open source this project while we are still actively developing it. If we decide we shouldn't move forward with the project any longer I'd be glad to open source both repos.

paked commented 9 years ago

I don't think it would do anyone any harm to open source once Newbrict/engi is stable and at a good point. Its not like we really have any Oaktale dependent code in here (right?)

Newbrict commented 9 years ago

For now I want the code to be private, I'll open source both repos if we decide not to keep working on it.

paked commented 9 years ago

Ok, what if we decide to keep working on the project? Will the code ever be released in that case?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:40 AM Dimitar Dimitrov notifications@github.com wrote:

For now I want the code to be private, I'll open source both repos if we decide not to keep working on it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Newbrict/engi/issues/23#issuecomment-108132348.

Newbrict commented 9 years ago

If we keep working on it we will have a functioning MMORPG which would spawn a games company, the code wouldn't be released until revenues from this game dissipated. That being said we're not going to build pay to win, or pay to play. The goal isn't to make money anyway, it's to build a game that people want to spend time in ( like old maplestory ).

paked commented 9 years ago

I still don't see the issue of releasing the engine... Obviously the game specific code/assets would be stupid to release, however the engine is pretty general and would even drive attention towards the game. I don't really mind, but we have a massive marketing opportunity with building the only good game engine in Go... Also mod support would be much easier with an open source engine (But that is perhaps outside the scope of this project :))

Newbrict commented 9 years ago

It may indeed drive attention to the game, and I agree there are no good 2D game engines for go. As we get further along in the project I might change my mind on open sourcing things, but as of right now I want it to remain closed source.

paked commented 9 years ago

Ok sure. That seems fine to me, but I will bring it up again in the future.