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I think even 15 would be pushing it, but yeah

they should let's go freevee

public domain should be after like 10 years tops anyway

If it weren't for Disney, by now I’d already be releasing my own animated Transformers series and a teaser for my own Godzilla movie, thanks to the public domain.

I mean with garrys mod this kindof happened to half life two lmao

OG marathon? I'm pretty sure Bungie released the source code for that, as well as giving the Aleph One community rights to distribute the assets alongside their engine

I mean, if copyright should be the same as patent length, 20 years, they both would be. Also Goldeneye.

First People’s Shooters

The people yearn for halo 3 forge on the TI-84 graphical calculator

This is reminding me of how bad of a state MCC is in and Halo modders for all the games kind of being left for dead after being served barebones undocumented tools

I was just thinking about that

imagine if someone fucked around with dragon's dogma 1 and made the general concept of dark arisen into a whole game on its own. i would 100% play a dark arisen-esque dungeon crawler as a full game

Just so you know, Kingdom Hearts 2 was also on my list.

give it to the osaka team!!!!!!!!

There was no explosive growth. Outside mobile there’s been no growth in 20 years. That’s the entire problem

live service games killed what we could have had

Imagine trying to get games like Fallout 3 or NV working but you didn't have to rely on a cluster of community mods holding it together like digital duct tape, instead you could do it like Quake. Download a source engine and point it at the art files, done.

I do actually think there needs to be a threshold past which something like DOOM becomes part of humanity's cultural heritage and all copyright and trademark disappears. And "x years after the creator is dead" obviously isn't working

Or just reform copyright and cut it back down to something reasonable. Instead of 90+ years.

LBP1-3. It's time. #freeSackboy

I genuinely believe this. For thousands of years we created art from a shared set of mythologies, stories, characters, because these things OBVIOUSLY belong to all of us, being artifacts of our own culture. But now Pokemon can say "no we own this concept, you can't make art of it"??? Insanity.

The industry kind of already is. Gabe Newell was pretty much the 1st to get it and then Steam became a thing and Epic was the major competitor with Unreal

i remember in the interviews back in the 90s someone (one of the johns?) said something so close to this that for a second i thought you were deliberately referencing it...

The benefits of an open-source game engine you can't develop games on without specialized equipment are not obvious to me, but then again the most game development I've done was for a 200-level college class in Game Maker.

Minecraft not being just a free open source thing is baffling to me

From what I understand, Carmack had the authority and/or enough influence (considering he wrote the whole engine by himself) to GPL the source code, but the game data (i.e. art assets and levels etc.) was id's and they were still selling Doom so it was not possible. lists.debian.org/debian-devel...

GPL not public domain (if it were public domain you could change like 5 lines and re-release it as a proprietary app) github.com/id-Software/... but ig same difference for the purpose of this point

There's a fair number of games that effectively feel public domain. Everyone is already making Doom games, you have as much chance stopping them as killing the totally not just a spin on Tetris games.