BitCraft Online
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BitCraft - build cities and change the landscape in this new cross-platform community sandbox MMORPG
  • DremorMEnglish
    19•21 days ago

    That’s the kind of move I like to see.

    I worked on a fork of another Open-Sourced MMO (forked from Ryzom Online). Lot of nice idea (like spell crafting, among other), but the tech stack and system was so old it was more a pain than anything. You couldn’t even jump in that games 😂.

  • @[email protected]English
    38•21 days ago

    That’s… Kind of insane! I’ve been following Bitcraft every now since it got announced but I never expected them to go to this direction. The blog post makes sense but I’m curious what license they’re going to use. It could be a legal minefield to try and stop people from stealing the game, re-branding it, then profiting off of it.

    It’ll be really curious to see how this plays out because there isn’t really any major games that went open source, much less one that’s going to be actively monetized like Bitcraft.

    Our focus will be on a smooth and successful Early Access launch on Steam, which is our highest priority. Only once we are happy with the state of the game will we start the process of open sourcing BitCraft.

    Anyway, it sounds like open-sourcing the game might take a while. I hope early access works out for them.

    • 3DMVREnglish
      1•20 days ago

      Asset flips aren’t as straightforward and easy as ppl claim, but yeah will be a thing prob a non issue like red eclipses crypto clones

      • @[email protected]English
        11•21 days ago

        To actually answer your question, Wurm Online is an MMO based on player governance of a medeival-like world, with terraforming and construction as a focus. Basically one big medeival role play Minecraft server. It’s a bunch of fun though, if you can find the time to literally build a village from the ground up in your free time.

    • Tarquinn2049English
      3•21 days ago

      Also, it’s basically the same thing as Veloren, another current open source mmo voxel world builder rpg. But looks like maybe smaller voxels on average.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•21 days ago

    Neat! I’ll wishlist it but I doubt my PC can handle it worth a damn. Hopefully it comes to PS5 and my bros and I can start us a nice little commune!

    A social-focused sandbox MMO could be a nice place to show anarchist concepts to people tbh

  • @[email protected]English
    100•21 days ago

    This is uncharted territory and we are essentially running an experiment. For this reason we’re not licensing or open sourcing the game’s assets - the art, music, and IP will still be protected for the time being. But all of the code that makes the game run will be made public. We have not chosen the exact license under which we will be open sourcing the game’s code, but it will be one of the OSI’s approved open source licenses.

    • @[email protected]English
      48•21 days ago

      That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

      Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.

    • 3DMVREnglish
      1•20 days ago

      that makes sense, especially if they buy it and dont make it

  • @[email protected]English
    15•20 days ago

    There are so few open source games, they have just cemented a permanent audience for themselves for the next 10 years by announcing this.

  • chonkyninjaEnglish
    8•21 days ago

    Never heard of it, nor played it. But I’ll definitely buy a copy to support development and future curious minds!