Those are more like engine reimplementations rather than alternatives, which explains the fear of EA interference.
It’s a pity so many open source games go in that direction. I honestly wouldn’t mind even if the graphics were ugly placeholders or it took a minecraft-style pixelated approach.
Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!
It’s funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I’ve been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small “break” and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I’ve always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂
I post my progress at !projectharmonia@lemmy.ml and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven’t managed to come up with a nice name yet.
The Sims.
It will never happen but one can dream
There are actually a few projects doing exactly that, at least for the early entries;
Development pace for them is somewhat slow due apparent lack of interest - and a healthy dose of fear of EA interference - though.
Those are more like engine reimplementations rather than alternatives, which explains the fear of EA interference.
It’s a pity so many open source games go in that direction. I honestly wouldn’t mind even if the graphics were ugly placeholders or it took a minecraft-style pixelated approach.
Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!
It’s funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I’ve been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small “break” and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I’ve always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂
I post my progress at !projectharmonia@lemmy.ml and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven’t managed to come up with a nice name yet.
EA are pretty smart here to kill any community interest in developing a free clone, by letting their end users mod the main game very easily.
Hard to compete with that