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fgaz3 years ago

This game is great! A worthy successor of Kobo Deluxe!

Also props for the fair and sensible business model. I wish more games gave the users the freedoms this game does. This also enables distributions to package the game and make it more accessible, which is awesome!

I did my part by packaging it for Nix/NixOS. Its users can install it by following the instructions here. The system will ask the user for a copy of the purchased assets, see here for how to install the version with placeholder assets instead.

I hope that's OK by you!

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Olofson Arcade3 years ago

Thank you! :-)

That's awesome! More than fine by me, as this was the idea behind this model.

(That said, the game logic is still based on the original GPL code, which actually requires this licensing model - but since that's incompatible with certain platforms, such as Steam, that code will be replaced eventually. However, this licensing model will remain!)

BTW, is the free installer using my (very crude) "Spectrum style" theme, or something more proper?

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fgaz3 years ago

> BTW, is the free installer using my (very crude) "Spectrum style" theme, or something more proper?

The chip+mono theme, yes. That's the only existing free theme, isn't it?

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Olofson Arcade3 years ago

Yes, those are the only ones at this point.

And on that note, it's perfectly fine to make third party skins, even commercially. Legally, it's basically the same thing as forking the code and building a new game, which is, of course, also fine.

As for my "share," I'm going to have to recreate the enemy definitions and levels, as those are also part of the GPL XKobo code (and don't really fit the new physics all that well anyway) and I might put that data in the proprietary data. However, I still intend to package the FOSS source tree as a fully playable game, so in that case, it would just have a conversion of the XKobo/Deluxe levels or something - so essentially what is there right now.

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