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Re:Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers by harigov on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:03AM (#13966946)
Maybe they should open this up as a AI programming platform and sell any algorithms that come out of it.
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Re:Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers by mdpopescu on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:17AM (#13967041)
I'm pretty sure that would quickly get them in trouble because of copyright issues...
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Re:Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers by JokerDan on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:16AM (#13967419)
Unless they explicitly stated any players submit their rights to ownership of the algorithms they write. Even then I feel an open source alternative geared towards research would be better than a for-profit closed source organisation, but they will have their own business needs and ideas they want to stick to.
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Re:Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers by y4mi on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:57PM (#13971145)
It says open source on steam and it links to a GitHub repo. Didn't verify, but seemed legit
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Re:Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers by stale2002 on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:31PM (#13970895)
That's dumb.

Any algorithms that players come up with will almost certainly only be useful for playing the game.

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