Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no...
by pwillia7 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:57PM
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hear hear
Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no...
by westmeal on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:59PM
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You're a pretty rad dude
Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no...
by Shinmera on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:36PM
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Aw, thank you.
Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no...
by vlunkr on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:05PM
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Very cool. Coming from the web dev world, the gaming world seems very protective of everything about development. This makes sense coming from the AAA studios, but it sadly extends to many indie devs as well. Hopefully there will be more embracing of the open source model in the future.
Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no...
by Shinmera on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:38PM
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Yeah. Even around announcements and reveals there's a lot of scares going around. The industry has historically relied very heavily on a big launch hit, so the marketing around that had to be very carefully massaged, and release of information controlled as a consequence.
I'm personally sceptical that it's healthy to be this caged about things, but I don't have any numbers to back this up -- though I suspect nobody else does either, given how marketing is always just a crapshoot.
It is far more important to me to show confidence in my vision and to let other people learn from what I've done. In my view a lot more games should be open source, because far too much of the process is hidden behind mysticism, with far too many people wasting a ton of time reinventing things from scratch.
And, well, finally, I'd ultimately like to make everything I do available for free, anyhow. The only reason I'm selling Kandria is because there is no UBI in this country and probably won't be for many years to come, so I have to fund things somehow.