Article category: Source Code Release (2024)

Athena Crisis looks a lot like Advance Wars and now its code is open source

Entering Early Access on Steam back in March, Athena Crisis clearly takes inspiration from the classic Advance Wars and now the code has been made open source.

King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) went open source as developer shuts down

King under the Mountain from developer Rocket Jump Technology, a simulation-based settlement-building strategy game, that was going through a big upgrade and re-brand with Mountaincore ended up shutting down and being open sourced.

PERIMETER: Legate Edition released on Steam with Linux support

K-D Lab have revived their classic RTS, with PERIMETER: Legate Edition now available on Steam with full Native Linux support and it's even open source.

Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0

More open source surprises for you today, coming from Microsoft too which is always interesting to see as they've now open sourced MS-DOS 4.0.

Descent 3 has been made open source

Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

Cute gravity-bending platformer ROTA is now free and open source

Always nice to see more developers open up their games. ROTA released back in 2022 is now not only free, but it's also been made open source by the dev.

Roblox and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite sure are popular, but you know what would be better? An open source project, where creators can actually own what they make rather than being attached to Roblox and Fortnite. The Mirror wants to change that.

Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins

Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.

War Thunder game engine Dagor Engine from Gaijin now open source

This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

AMD is moving even further into open source, with their plans to have openSIL replace AGESA for their processors and they've now put up the initial open source code on GitHub.

Google open sourced CDC File Transfer from the ashes of Stadia

As Google hover over the nuke from orbit button on Stadia, they're at least releasing some of it as open source like CDC File Transfer.

A Robot Named Fight! source code released

The developer of a nicely reviewed metroidvania called A Robot Named Fight! has released the source code, hoping that others can learn from it.

Overgrowth from Wolfire Games goes open source

Just like they did with some earlier games, Wolfire Games have now open sourced the game code for Overgrowth.

Two Tribes open sourced their game engine for RIVE and Toki Tori 2+

Netherlands based Two Tribes is an indie game developer who worked on titles like RUSH, EDGE, Toki Tori, RIVE and more just open sourced their game engine.

Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 are two classic titles originally developed by Adeline Software International and now they've both had their engine source code officially released.

Roguelike shoot 'em up Good Robot is now open source

Fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up Good Robot released in 2016 from Pyrodactyl has now had the code opened up under the MIT license.

Blendo Games have open sourced their strategic space adventure 'Flotilla'

To celebrate Flotilla turning 10 years old, Blendo Games announced today that it's been made open source.