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Ask HN: Should I open source my video game?

3•zadkey•2h ago
I've been working on and off on a video game in C# and raylib for a while.

It's like a vampire survivors like game. There are no true art assets. Everything is text. That and 32 colors and no mouse. In a sense, retro. Having fewer colors made it easier to decide what color to use.

Anyway, I've worked on it on and off for well over a year now. At this point, my passion and inspiration has left me. Maybe with time and resources I could finish it. But working in the shadows as a solo dev with no support isn't very fulfilling. (maybe that's the issue? would love to hear from others)

Right now it's complete enough to be considered a game. There's choice of characters, races, attributes, leveling up, spells, music, sound effects, enemies that spawn, and the framework for designing waves of enemies.

It could still use actual levels (instead of a just a big open grassy area), score, and unlocks.

It also includes a little bit of a tool chain for designing 'assets' (C# classes and methods that overlap text from raylib) and exporting files that and be used and included.

Comments

laurentlb•1h ago
What's the downside of open sourcing it?
zadkey•1h ago
Honestly, I'm not really sure.

I assume regret. Perhaps someone else will take it and finish it release it on steam and make bank. Who knows.

Part of the reason of asking the question is I was hoping to hear from other people who have done something similar so they can share their experience and feelings on the matter.

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