Inside a Star-Filled Sky (Public Domain For-Pay) + Video Review + Jason Rohrer on open source
Inside a Star-Filled Sky (IaSFS? InaStFiSk?) is a game. And art . [You want a game?=art discussion? Go to page 9 ! ;)] This art runs on OSX, Linux and Windows. So you move around in procedurally generated mazes in real-time, shoot enemies, pick up stuff and change between levels. Sounds like.. GoblinHack so far (the graphics are softer though). But. The mazes are people. Or pixelated monsters for that matter. Or upgrades. You control a thing inside another thing. the thing is a maze. The game costs at least $1.75 because it's pay what you want + fees. I was lucky to get Jason to answer two of my questions. Q: Is IaSFS in the public domain? Jason Rohrer: Yes, it's all in the public domain (which is why no license file is included). Q: Why do you release your games as open source? Why does open source matter (to you)? Jason Rohrer: I release all of my work as open source because there's no reason not to. People mostly "hide" their source code out of fear, ...