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Can I have the source code to make some additions?

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ParaSait:

--- Quote from: Driverman on November 11, 2013, 20:19 ---I'm unaware of any reason why would he want to keep source code closed, especially if he has no time to work on it.

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+1

Tavana:
Hey there. It's awesome that you're interested in the game, and interested enough you'd like to help make some of the changes you've put forward.

There are a couple things about your request, though. As thelaptop mentioned, you're new here. Ask yourself how you'd feel if someone you'd never met came in and asked for the source code to a project you'd been working on for years to make changes and offshoots. AliensRL isn't finished by a longshot, which means there's still a vision (and a trac full of ideas) that Kornel has for it. If course I'm not saying your ideas aren't good ideas, or that they couldn't work in the game. It's just a big ask.

The other bit is that you've suggested lots of good things, but told us nothing. How well do you know PASCAL and the Valkyrie engine which Kornel has made to run this game? How are you with OO programming? What's your comment to code ratio? If you're going to make changes to code that you're suggesting could be reused by others, there are standards you would want to meet.

These are just a sample of some of the questions Kornel might have for you. I started out asking to help Kornel code DiabloRL, so it certainly might happen that you'd be given repository access. But I too would highly suggest taking it up with him in a private message.

Driverman:
The question here is for Kornel and whether will he open the source code, to public. I'm irrelevant. I don't see he has any questions or anything to say about it at all. I'll take that as a 'no'. And that's fine, the game is good enough as it is.

skarczew:

--- Quote from: Driverman on November 11, 2013, 20:19 ---I'm unaware of any reason why would he want to keep source code closed, especially if he has no time to work on it. I guess what I'm really asking is to open the source code to public, with some restriction that all mods would need to be published only through his website, if that's what he's concerned about.

I don't think that would take away anything from him, I think it could bring some nice improvements and enrich the game. So then at some point he could pick up the mods he likes the best, tweak them as he wants, and compile them in his next official build.

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Authors prefer their children to be untouched by the impure hands, rather than corrupted and transformed into a pathetic chaotic beings.
Similar situation - ADOM and Thomas Biskup.

thelaptop:

--- Quote from: Driverman on November 12, 2013, 16:13 ---The question here is for Kornel and whether will he open the source code, to public. I'm irrelevant. I don't see he has any questions or anything to say about it at all. I'll take that as a 'no'. And that's fine, the game is good enough as it is.

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If you are indeed asking that question, then I will say that it is an unfair question.

Don't you think that it is premature to think about opening up the source code when the progenitor of the project hasn't completed enough of his vision yet?

I have mentioned that he has been busy with working on his do-or-die project.  Tavana has also mentioned that AliensRL is in no way complete as at now.  And both of us have repeatedly mentioned taking this to a PM with Kornel -- there is no public debate over this, because there is nothing to debate about.

And that will be my last word on this matter.

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