Article category: Source Code Release

Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata

By Liam Dawe, Nov 13

With the source code available along with the game, Yawnoc is a chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata that's out now.

Rogue Legacy 1 source code released

By Liam Dawe, Oct 15

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Rogue Legacy, a rogue-lite from Cellar Door Games, that originally released in 2013 has now had the source code released.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust from Analgesic Productions source code opened up

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

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Analgesic Productions have opened up the full source code for their 2D-3D action-adventure game Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.

The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4

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Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

By Liam Dawe, Jun 28

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Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

ElectricMaple joins WiVRn and ALVR in giving options to stream VR to a headset

By Liam Dawe, Jun 19

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Helping you cut down on all those wires, and potentially making way for cheaper low-end VR headsets for streaming, ElectricMaple was announced by Collabora and PlutoVR joining the likes of WiVRn and ALVR.

Athena Crisis looks a lot like Advance Wars and now its code is open source

By Liam Dawe, May 30

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Entering Early Access on Steam back in March, Athena Crisis clearly takes inspiration from the classic Advance Wars and now the code has been made open source.

King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) went open source as developer shuts down

By Liam Dawe, May 21

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King under the Mountain from developer Rocket Jump Technology, a simulation-based settlement-building strategy game, that was going through a big upgrade and re-brand with Mountaincore ended up shutting down and being open sourced.

PERIMETER: Legate Edition released on Steam with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, May 21

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K-D Lab have revived their classic RTS, with PERIMETER: Legate Edition now available on Steam with full Native Linux support and it's even open source.

Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0

By Liam Dawe, Apr 26

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More open source surprises for you today, coming from Microsoft too which is always interesting to see as they've now open sourced MS-DOS 4.0.

Descent 3 has been made open source

By Liam Dawe, Apr 16

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Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

Cute gravity-bending platformer ROTA is now free and open source

By Liam Dawe, Apr 10

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Always nice to see more developers open up their games. ROTA released back in 2022 is now not only free, but it's also been made open source by the dev.

The Mirror aims to be a Roblox & UEFN alternative and now it's open source

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18

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Roblox and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite sure are popular, but you know what would be better? An open source project, where creators can actually own what they make rather than being attached to Roblox and Fortnite. The Mirror wants to change that.

Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins

By Liam Dawe, Feb 20

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Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe, Dec 14, 2023

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As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.

War Thunder game engine Dagor Engine from Gaijin now open source

By Liam Dawe, Nov 1, 2023

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This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.

Even the Ocean from Analgesic Productions has a source code release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2023

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Even the Ocean from Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka and Analgesic Productions recently had the source code released.

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2023

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AMD is moving even further into open source, with their plans to have openSIL replace AGESA for their processors and they've now put up the initial open source code on GitHub.

Google open sourced CDC File Transfer from the ashes of Stadia

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6, 2023

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As Google hover over the nuke from orbit button on Stadia, they're at least releasing some of it as open source like CDC File Transfer.

A Robot Named Fight! source code released

By Liam Dawe, Oct 12, 2022

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The developer of a nicely reviewed metroidvania called A Robot Named Fight! has released the source code, hoping that others can learn from it.

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