“The full source code of Lego Island? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your archives?”
“Yes”
“… Can I see it?”
“No”I don’t know why it isn’t more common to open source really old games.
You don’t have to give away the assets. ID gave away the source to Doom and Quake and people can still play them now. Yet here we are, 20 years later, and they’re about the only studio that ever bothered.
EA recently open sourced several Command and Conquer games.
Because doing so incurres a cost but no revenue.
It may require a review of the code, there’s a risk of something being exposed that shouldn’t have been (e.g. misuse of intellectualproperty).
There really aren’t any benefits for the studio.That’s assuming they’re even in business decade later, or even still have ownership.
Yeah but if they make some really cool game with that open source code they’ll be playing that instead of our multi billion dollar AI slop!
Some mid and higher executive managers at gaming companies. Hell, at nearly all large companies
to clarify: the decompilation is done. so we have the source code, one way or another.
(well, it’s not completely done since it doesn’t compile to the exact same binary, but it’s very close - just go watch the video OP linked, it’s good)
Decomp isn’t the original source code, though. It’s just code written in a way that’s going to produce similar to exact same results as the original.
yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better
but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for
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We’ll get there eventually, brick by brick.
I remember this game! It was pretty cool for it’s time, graphics were awesome. I don’t know how the gameplay would hold up compared to modern games. This was back when things like UI/UX was in general not very polished to the standards we expect now.
It has very little gameplay. It’s a few mini games spread across a janky early-3D scene.
Lego Island 2 is much more game.
There is a 2? O_O
And a 3! (Extreme Stunts)
I remember both fondly. I should spoil that memory some day…
Love the first game despite it being indeed more of a “virtual tour” than a game.
Some of its voicelines are engraved in my brain xD
This was one of my favorite games at the time. So unlike most other games. It definitely doesn’t hold up anywhere near modern games, but it holds a special place unlike most other games.
I watch playthroughs of this for background noise sometimes. It’s just cozy nostalgia for me.
