I can’t believe indie devs like LocalThunk or Toby Fox don’t get any money when someone buys their games. It’s really bizarre.
Or do you mean, that there are open source game platforms out there that don’t pay the devs?
If all the money should go to the devs, every game would need to be self-published, and the store would not take a cut, which isn’t realistic, if you want the store or platform to have any features.
I mean that I don’t know of an opensource game store, let alone one that allows devs to get paid. There are stores out there where devs publish their opensource games, but the stores themselves are proprietary.
I’m not sure how an opensource game store could be monetized. It would probably be donations. A part of those could go to the game store devs. Probably the closest we’ll get to something like that is the Heroic Launcher. If they added an index of opensource games and had a distribution package (I assume it would be flatpak) and some method of payment or donation link, it could be possible.
I look forward to opensource games on an opensource game store that allows devs to get paid. That would be amazing.
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https://itch.io/ is pretty close just no exclusivly OS
That would be nice.
I can’t believe indie devs like LocalThunk or Toby Fox don’t get any money when someone buys their games. It’s really bizarre.
Or do you mean, that there are open source game platforms out there that don’t pay the devs?
If all the money should go to the devs, every game would need to be self-published, and the store would not take a cut, which isn’t realistic, if you want the store or platform to have any features.
I mean that I don’t know of an opensource game store, let alone one that allows devs to get paid. There are stores out there where devs publish their opensource games, but the stores themselves are proprietary.
I’m not sure how an opensource game store could be monetized. It would probably be donations. A part of those could go to the game store devs. Probably the closest we’ll get to something like that is the Heroic Launcher. If they added an index of opensource games and had a distribution package (I assume it would be flatpak) and some method of payment or donation link, it could be possible.
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