Hi.
We’ve gathered here today to hear about proposal of open-sourcing CI1. There are many open-source games (not as many as the closed ones, but still there are many) nowadays. Not every one of them releases as that since the beginning - some of them just get open-sourced after few years when the sales are no longer too much profitable or for anniversaries or just because.
The latest big example of a game that got open-sourced after the release is old indie hit VVVVVV. It got open-source for 10th anniversary. It got some publicity and after something like ~1.5 year it got first update since 7 years which was created with help of community. Despite the bugfixes it got such things as: unlocked framerate, in-game timer and features for level creators. You can read more here: VVVVVV gets its first update in seven years, and it's a big one | PC Gamer
Have you heard of DOOM, Quake and Amnesia? They are open-source and DOOM especially is loved by people that port it to run it on every piece of tech in the existence.
If you’re worried that your game might end up getting cloned and stolen to make ton of cheap copies without contributing back then just choose some good copyleft license that prohibits that behavior. You don’t even have to open-source the graphics, but it would be nice and would make it easier for people wanting to tinker with it.
So I’m here to suggest open-sourcing the CI1.
List of arguments for open-sourcing the CI1:
- The last update was released nearly 20 years ago (2002-12-30)
- It has problems running on Windows newer than 7
- It is only available for Windows OS, which means it could be ported for more systems
- It could be improved by some hobbyists, either the technical stuff, adding new inputs support, new content, frame rate increase, resolution increase or all of them
- It could be preserved
- It is currently available to download for free so there’s nothing to lose in terms of profits
Here’s a good article that talks about open-sourcing games in more technical details:
The complete guide for open sourcing video games
- Yes
- Neutral
- I’m against it
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