The Mana World turns 20 on 11th of April

ThinkSome

-> https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=21723

mdtrooper

And PlanetShift is very old (from 2004). It was open source and around to 2008 I played some hours, there was features curious that when you died, the next time you started in a hell or purgatory and you must go up to the game.

But a couple of years, the main developer changed from the engine (Crystal Space) to Unreal Engine....f*ck...I think that now the game is not free software because the new engine is clouse source.

ThinkSome

mdtrooper

Is the pre-unreal planetshift still playable?

Peter

Thanks at @ThinkSome for the link.

@mdtrooper Too bad for Planeshift. And afaik Ryzom is not libre, too. There are partial assets libre but not all. And the code is not completely libre, too, or?

mdtrooper

Peter is Ryzom not libre?

Why? I remember that this game (the game assets and code...) was bought by...I don't remember well...FSF paid the money or there was a crowdfunding to buy it.

Peter

mdtrooper was bought by...I don't remember well...FSF paid the money or there was a crowdfunding to buy it.

You're probably right, but I've never heard of that. I only remember that once I tried to sort of fork Ryzom but ran into obstacles.

poVoq

There is Ryzom the commercial game and Ryzom Core, the open source project.

The source-code is afaik mostly the same and the majority of the art assets are libre, but Ryzom the commercial game as a whole is not. The much smaller Ryzom Core, however is, but it is basically only a sandbox with very limited art assets and not a full game.