The Day Before was originally billed as an MMO, but post launch, developer Fntastic is seemingly removing tags from the game’s Steam page.
  •  jarfil   ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
    2•7 months ago

    No, I’m a foss dev, and I speak for all of us when I ask you to please not join any of our communities

    Sure, I’ll write your name down in the black book. What’s your GitHub nick, or wherever you keep your stuff?

    You need to put up or shut up evidence of where that developer said that he would release his code as open source

    From the article:

    https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/artemis-shuts-down/

    She didn’t want to release the code to something prematurely

    Implying the code was supposed to get released. You may want to ask the article’s author about where they got that out.

      •  jarfil   ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
        1•7 months ago

        The promise I’m referring to, is to “release the code”.

        (long version)

        I understand the thought process of people not wanting to show how messy their pre-production code is… but that’s why, following semver rules, you mark it as a version “0.x.y”. It’s not an exam, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, anyone who’s written code knows that’s how things work, and it’s on the community to be understanding of this, so the “initial dev” of an open source project should feel confident in releasing a tangled mess, no less no more.

        Promising the code, then disappearing without giving a community that’s invested in the project a chance to take over, is what I find fishy.

        •  lad   ( @sukhmel@programming.dev ) 
          1•7 months ago

          I’ve nothing to say more on topic. Off topic, people may be quite different and even if objectively there should be nothing bad in releasing pre-production, they may find it sensitive + there might be someone to actively offend for that. I only encountered the former, luckily