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Devil Whiskey to Bring Back RPG Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the rpgs-for-for-the-crotchety dept.

jSpectre writes "Remember how much you loved The Bard's Tale? Or maybe you're looking for something a little different than the current crop of RPG games? Then check out Devil Whiskey for both Linux and Windows. The developer also promises to release the source after some of the development costs have been recovered! O'Reilly has an article discussing development of the game as well."

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  1. Re:Ransomware... by mrgreen4242 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    See, I look at it this way... Suppose that it was Blizzard who said, ok if we sell 1 million copies of World of StarDiablo 9 at $50, we will release the code to the game under the GPL. If that hapened, everyone would go apeshit crazy about how great Blizzard was, etc etc, even though they just did some math that says, "hey if we make $25 million (their cut of the $50m in sales), we will have made a tidy profit, and they we can stop supporting this game, thereby saving us $5m over the next 5 years!" But it's not Blizzard, it's some little independant shop, so instead of being "wow, that's a great show of support for the community", it's "ransomware".

    So, this small game developer is trying to do a couple things, makes some cash (ppl gotta eat!) and also give back to the community. The source for his game could very well turn into the basis for alot of great opensource games, something the community is lacking. If this were, say, an office suite, it'd be stupid, since that's area already pretty well filled with alternatives, but the OSS game scene is, imo, lacking, and I think that any way we can spur some development is a Good Thing (tm).