It's passing knowledge down to an entire generation of new developers, and we're all smarter for it in the end.
If it's not making money for the studio, and things can be repacked without much legal wrangling for the developers, an open source release provides a great foothold for new developers wanting to poke around the guts of something big.
It's a pity more games don't go this route. The Rising Stars Discord seems pretty lively right now, for sure.
#STAR RULER 2 OPEN SOURCE TV#
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#STAR RULER 2 OPEN SOURCE MOD#
While Star Ruler 2's mod scene hasn't been very active in recent months, the release of the source code will hopefully open up some new doors. Lets Try: Star Ruler 2 - Now Open Source If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. The GitHub page for the game makes nods to both the Steam forum community for the game, and a Discord server for Rising Stars, one of the larger Star Ruler 2 mod projects, which can be found on Mod DB here. So Star Ruler 2 (2015 space 4x) has now been made available by its developer as a fully open source project ( u can also continue to purchase on steam)As one. Star Ruler 2's community (including modders) is small, but this release seems to have woken them up somewhat. While the self-assembled, free version of the game misses out on the music and Steam achievements, everything else is fully functional, including multiplayer, fully cross-compatible with people playing the Steam and GOG releases.
#STAR RULER 2 OPEN SOURCE FULL#
The GitHub page for the game includes full instructions on what to do, starting with (for Windows, at least) downloading and installing Visual Studio 2017. I just discovered that Star Ruler 2 is open-source (MIT-licensed)) They provide instructions for building for Windows, Darwin, and Linux, and if you want to support them, you can buy it on Steam too. Our crowd-sourced lists contains more than 10 apps similar to Star Ruler for Windows, Steam, Linux, Android. Better still: Everything but the music is included, so if you build it yourself, it's entirely free.Īssembling your own copy of Star Ruler 2 isn't as complex as it sounds. The best Star Ruler alternatives are Stellaris, Galactic Civilizations and Endless Space. Developers Blind Mind Studios have been inactive for a while now, but this week they kindly made Star Ruler 2 (and its expansion, Wake Of The Heralds) open source. Its 2015 sequel, Star Ruler 2 flew under our radar, but was a slightly more coherent, traditional game, while still offering conflict on a truly daft scale. Star Ruler was a 4X space strategy game where ships could be as big as planets, and carry weapons that could punch holes in suns.