Kovarex Is Thinking About Open-Sourcing Factorio | Factorio Interview: Michal Kovařík [Czech; Eng Subs]
Kovarex Is Thinking About Open-Sourcing Factorio | Factorio Interview: Michal Kovařík [Czech; Eng Subs]
cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/2418820
For me, the most interesting point was the short mention of open sourcing Factorio (around 2:40). Kovarex seems to be very much open to the idea, he mentions that (as an approximation) maybe two years after the DLC after things calm down ...
(Hope this is not much of a titlegore)
Notch said the same thing about Minecraft. I'll believe it when I see it.
22Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the source code of the Java version open for modding?
1Not really. There is de-obfusication headers which They officially provide which can make decompiled source readable for the purpose of making mods, You're not allowed to redistribute any of the code.
5
There's a model that id used for open sourcing their engines. The source code is open, but the assets (textures, models, sounds, etc.) are still copyrighted and you still have to buy the game to get them legally. This means the company still sells copies on Steam or wherever, and games that replace all the assets can still sell them without any licensing costs, too.
I'm a little surprised this model never caught on. Even id only ever published the engine to the previous game--Quake 3 was open sourced a little after Doom 3 was released--and the practice seems to have stopped when John Carmack left.
Possibly because nobody has tested it in court, or some other subtle legal issue?
17Games got a lot more complicated and many use so many 3rd party add-ins that just sorting through what you have rights to release can be a pretty big task and not worth it if what you can release ends up unusable with all of them removed.
6
Won't this kill mindustry (at least on PC)?
1Is anyone even still buying Factorio? I was under the impression anybody who could possibly be interested in it already owns it. It's also quite cheap.
10It looks like they are still selling almost 7000 copies per week !
18The DLC launches next month, so it has seen a surge of renewed interest. And once the DLC lands, it’ll likely get a surge of new players from being on the store page again.
15
Perhaps some components of the game can be open-sourced, especially regarding modding APIs and whatnot. Still allows them to keep some things closed for a while, but could expand the mods and optimization even further.
7I'm feelin' the love. Opening the game to modding to the degree they already have has lengthened the life span of this game for
weeksmonths of additional play time. Making it open source would make it immortal.62Months? You clearly haven't tried Pyanodons.
Jokes aside, yeah, it would be a killer.
6
This would be amazing!
31Fucking legends if they do
31Its a video game
-26It is a work of art!
16Breaking news ground here Capernicus
41Its context for other readers because its not in the title. You're welcome
9