SNKRX VS Aetheria-Economy

One thing that really helped me is looking at the source code and assets of one game that I really enjoyed -- SNKRX, the creator of the game, a327ex, put everything on Github so you can take a look how a finished game looks: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/. The repo even includes the various images needed for Steam, this was very nice so I could make sure some of the assets I made aren't unfit for their purpose: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/tree/master/assets/media . There are also some Photoshop files provided on the Steamworks FAQ which are very useful too, but they mainly show just in which area of the image you shouldn't put important text etc.

If it helps, here's a devlog for a reasonably successful game built in love2d.

SNKRX/devlog.md : daily breakdown of what he actually worked on from the start for his SNKRX game

SNKRX daily devlog for the first 3 months << very detailed of what he was doing each day

I'm the developer of SNKRX and on top of what most other people mentioned, the truth of the matter is that making games is hard and making games while working on someone else's codebase is even harder. Anyone who has the capacity to do anything useful with your game's codebase will likely also have the capacity to make their own game from scratch, so they'll just do that instead.

SNKRX is a commercial game and is open source (MIT), but it's not an open source project -- the developer is focused on improving their game for their gaming community and not building a development community around the game.

The required driver script will be helpful in figuring out what it's doing. Happy spelunking!

We had a bit of a hiatus after it became clear that we'd never get a publisher deal since the game is open source, and we're now pivoting into a narrative-focused vertical slice "demo", which we're hoping we can use to grow an audience and crowdfund.

The license you purchase on the asset store to use those assets does not permit you to redistribute them. This means that you need to approach the creators individually and acquire special permission to include their asset in your repo, even if you're not relicensing it. Very few asset store devs will agree to this, I can tell you from experience.

Here's ours.

The game is open source, so if you're up to it you can check out the code for it in the meanwhile here. It's not exactly plug and play, though!

I'm using dual serialization for the heavily polymorphic data structures in my game - MessagePack with integer keys and union polymorphism for the wire format and local storage, and Json.NET with string keys and JsonKnownTypes polymorphism for debug output and long term persistence in RethinkDB. Here's what one of my simpler polymorphic data structures looks like. Lots of attributes but that's the price you pay I guess.

Our project could certainly use some more code hands on deck! There's 8 of us so far, and we're building a rogue-lite third person space shooter with a story centered around a time loop. Here's a trailer. Here's our Github (it's open source!). Here's our Discord. I'm PixelBro#3202 btw.

If you're using Unity I'd like to recommend my open source game as a potential study candidate. Here's the repo, trailer of the game and a pitch deck if you wanna know more.

By the way, Aetheria: Terminus is an open source project! You can find the code for the galaxy generation right here.

Meanwhile my whole studio is developing our (unique and amazing) game completely open source, and I'm still not worried in the slightest about IP theft. Anyone with the ability to comprehend our codebase has much better things to do than "steal" our ideas, and mechanics aren't copyrightable anyway.