OneLife

> OAOL runs commercial proprietary servers and the community was not free to distribute the game or run competing servers during the commercial active period. Reference? The source was dedicated to the public domain in early 2018, which coincides with the release of the game [0]. > So the model that made this economically viable was the proprietary control model. This is a complete fabrication. > Anyway, just because a handful of games can exist on libre models (even given what I've said) that doesn't mean the industry can survive with mandatory libre requirements. Making a living from open source software is hard, game or no. Making a living as a game developer is hard to begin with and many proprietary games are not commercially successful or viable. My point was that the ecosystem is a lot more complex than your reductive analysis. [0]

> That... basically kills the entire gaming industry. Pretty dismissive, no? Jason Rohrer puts many (most?) of his games in the public domain, including "One Hour, One Life" [0] [1]. As far as I know, his game is pretty successful, by indie standards. Teeworlds was at one point accepting donations, I believe [2]. Solarus has a donation page [3]. I'm sure there are many more examples that span the spectrum of payment options and cover different permutations of being online or offline. To me, the deeper question is what are you actually purchasing? The bytes? The convenience? A slice of server resources? Developers and artists time? I'm happy to give money to projects that I use, especially if it creates less friction than trying to go outside of the payment method and if the project is libre/free. I'm willing to pay for proprietary content

I'm admittedly not proficient in C++, but I can't see what's beatiful about the code. Looking at the specific example you linked to... inconsistent formatting and "magic values" aside, what's the point of, say: if( !relaunched ) { printf( "Relaunch failed\n" ); setSignal( "relaunchFailed" ); } else { printf( "Relaunched... but did not exit?\n" ); setSignal( "relaunchFailed" ); } Instead of simply: if( !relaunched ) { printf( "Relaunch failed\n" ); } else { printf( "Relaunched... but did not exit?\n" ); } setSignal( "relaunchFailed" ); ? Such copy-pasta style redundancy does count as somewhat sloppy in my book. And do C++ books or tutorials recommend cramming over 20 KLOC in a si

Must have been a mistake. It's there again: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife I also found this comment on his site: Tarr (1,819.0 hours on record) Posted 42 hours ago "Can't recommend the game to anyone who either doesn't have 15+ years of game development or doesn't know Jason personally. Game dynamics are too rich for a filthy casual like myself. If you want to make a suggestion please learn to read spaghetti code and hope the copypasta is as delicious as it is hard to untangle." Which is interesting, because Jason's C++ code is one of the very best I've ever read. I normally hate C++, but his code is beautiful and very readable. Like out of a book or tutorial. E.g. https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/blob/master/gameSourc... Also his dischord game support channel is filled with hate about him. Not only by this guy, but by many

FWIW, https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife appears to be there at the moment (20190605T0812+0100) (along with 22 other repositories.)

Following this rabbit-hole a little further: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/16#issuecommen... >Everyone out there in the world is a free person and can do whatever they want. I cannot stop them, even if I wanted to, and with this notice, I have promised not to even TRY to stop them. A year ago he seemed perfectly aware that he was giving away his control over his legacy. I wonder what changed since then...

https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/blob/master/no_copyri... >This work is not copyrighted. I place it into the public domain. >Do whatever you want with it, absolutely no restrictions, and no permission >necessary. >Jason Rohrer >Davis, California >March 2018 I would expect "absolutely no restrictions" to mean what it says. An interesting question would be whether Jason is defaming the developers, claiming they have made an "unauthorized adaptation" and committed fraud?

git clone https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife.git git clone https://github.com/jasonrohrer/MinorGems.git minorGems cd OneLife/ ./configure # answer the question cd gameSource/ make -j 4 ./OneLife