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BitCraft Online an upcoming AAA mmo goes open source

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BitCraft Online an upcoming AAA mmo goes open source

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BitCraft - build cities and change the landscape in this new cross-platform community sandbox MMORPG

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BitCraft Online an upcoming AAA mmo goes open source

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
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    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.

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      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.

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        Sounds like SpacetimeDB is where they are really heading right now.

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

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    Interesting, at first glance it seems to be a new take on what Wurm online was

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      What was Wurm Online?

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        An old take on what BitCraft Online is.

        • blinfabian@feddit.nl
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          what was BitCraft Online?

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            A new take on Wurm Online

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              who’s on first?

              • Thassodar@lemm.ee
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                MUDs

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        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.

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      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.

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    lmao bitcraft is not AAA. misleading title

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    The team is 22 people… so that’s definitely not AAA

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    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 😂.

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

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    Where did you read AAA? cuz it ain’t that

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    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

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      In the mean-time, Veloren already exists, and seems to be exactly what this is planning to be. An open source voxel mmo world builder rpg.

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        Neat, thanks!

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      “Initial focus on PC”

      I hope they’re using those words correctly and I can pay it on Linux.

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        To be fair just about everything seems to

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    Minecraft legit ruined a generation of gamers.

    Also, no Linux version?

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      especial that they say that they run on open source operating system

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      What do you mean ruined?

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      They said “focus on PC”, not “focus on Windows”.

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    Mhm… what’s Bitcraft?

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      No idea but it certainly isnt AAA.

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      An in-develpment MMO

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        ic ic

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

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    Looks like Veloren

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