Open Source Engine?

[freelikegnu]

I love Avorion and have played over 100 hours.  I love that the game is moddable and supporting Linux already!  I would like to ask if you are considering open sourcing the engine.  Two examples of such commercial games available on Steam are Barony and HyperRogue.  Both of these have already seen benefits of community PR's (pull requests).  Thank you!

 

Barony forking/merging history: https://github.com/TurningWheel/Barony/network

 

HyperRogue: https://github.com/zenorogue/hyperrogue/network

 

 

EDIT: heres a reddit thread with more examples:

[koonschi]

The engine is currently relatively tightly coupled with the main game, meaning it would make the entire game open source. I don't want to do that, sorry.

[freelikegnu]

The engine is currently relatively tightly coupled with the main game, meaning it would make the entire game open source. I don't want to do that, sorry.

Understood, just had to ask and thank you for the reply.  That said, keep up the great work!