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Also the source code of another Viewizard game, the puzzle collection Memonix, was released.

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īased on AstroMenace which was released in February 2007 as shareware for Windows and freeware for Linux.

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On March 30, 2021, Kay Savetz uploaded the source code for Ant-Eater (a Dig Dug clone), Princess and Frog (a Frogger clone), Sea Chase, and two unreleased video games by Ed Fries (of Halo 2600 fame) to GitHub under the MIT license with permission of Fries. Glen Cumming provided media and material of his Amiga games AlienBash and AlienBash II to the fan community, who was able to restore source code in 2014. Scott Adams Adventureland's source code was published in SoftSide magazine in 1980 and the database format was subsequently used in other interpreters such as Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures series. In 2016 a community developer released a '20th anniversary source port' which enabled custom resolutions, OpenGL rendering, Xbox 360 controller support and fixed the music. Only shareware data, excluding the sound effects, is in the public domain the rest is proprietary. Game source code was released as public domain along with the shareware-released media files.

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Licenses can be public domain, GPL, BSD, Creative Commons, zlib, MIT, Artistic License or other (see the comparison of Free and open-source software and the Comparison of free and open-source software licenses). The games in this table were released under a free and open-source license with free content which allows reuse, modification and commercial redistribution of the whole game. Although Saltsman has noted that those clones can be removed from storefronts with a DMCA takedown notice, Jeff Rosen, co-founder of Wolfire Games, has recognized that such practices may discourage game developers from releasing their code. However, releasing the source code may and has led to clones using the original proprietary assets from the game, with two notable examples of games having clones thanks to the source release being Canabalt and Lugaru HD. Wolfire Games also noted (along with Saltsman) that releasing the source code didn't reduce sales. Some developers that have released their source code have concluded that, in general terms, such action has not been harmful and even beneficial, among them Alec Holowka ( Aquaria), Adam Saltsman ( Canabalt), John Carmack ( Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake), Brian Hook ( Quake II), and Terry Cavanagh ( VVVVVV).

with unofficial patches to fix bugs or source ports to make the game compatible with new platforms. Source code availability in whatever form allows the games' communities to study how the game works, make modifications, and provide technical support themselves when the official support has ended, e.g. SourceForge or GitHub), or given to selected game community members, or sold with the game, or become available by other means. The source code may be pushed by the developers to public repositories (e.g. Such source code is often released under varying (free and non-free, commercial and non-commercial) software licenses to the games' communities or the public artwork and data are often released under a different license than the source code, as the copyright situation is different or more complicated.

In several of the cases listed here, the game's developers released the source code expressly to prevent their work from becoming abandonware. When there is no more expected revenue, these games enter the end-of-life as a product with no support or availability for the game's users and community, becoming abandoned.

The source code of these commercially developed and distributed video games is available to the public or the games' communities.Ĭommercial video games are typically developed as proprietary closed source software products, with the source code treated as a trade secret (unlike open-source video games). This is a list of commercial video games with later released available source code. For commercial games which were released as freeware without source code, see List of commercial video games released as freeware. For open source video games, see List of open-source video games.