Why Aren't There More Open Source Games?

• OneLife

  14 990 9.7 C++

  a multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building

• devilutionX

  335 7,536 9.7 C++

  Diablo build for modern operating systems

  

another example Diablo 1 - community recreated it and ported it to modern systems and updated it. Open sourcing (years ago) would have been no problem and a blessing for community AND company https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• systemshock

  9 795 0.7 C

  Shockolate - A minimalist and cross platform System Shock source port.

last example, system shock - got open sourced and ported by the community in no time https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock

• Barotrauma

  85 1,608 7.7 C#

  A 2D online multiplayer game taking place in a submarine travelling through the icy depths of Jupiter's moon Europa.

  

You forgot to mention Barotrauma! I really recommend everyone to give it a try with some friends: https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma

• OpenRA

  256 14,143 9.6 C#

  Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

  

Another great open source game is OpenRA. It's a remake of the early command & conquer games.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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