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.

That's... Kind of insane! I've been following Bitcraft every now since it got announced but I never expected them to go to this direction. The blog post makes sense but I'm curious what license they're going to use. It could be a legal minefield to try and stop people from stealing the game, re-branding it, then profiting off of it.

It'll be really curious to see how this plays out because there isn't really any major games that went open source, much less one that's going to be actively monetized like Bitcraft.

Our focus will be on a smooth and successful Early Access launch on Steam, which is our highest priority. Only once we are happy with the state of the game will we start the process of open sourcing BitCraft.

Anyway, it sounds like open-sourcing the game might take a while. I hope early access works out for them.

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

The team is 22 people... so that's definitely not AAA

lmao bitcraft is not AAA. misleading title

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 😂.

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

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

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

Minecraft legit ruined a generation of gamers.

Also, no Linux version?

Mhm... what's Bitcraft?

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

Looks like Veloren