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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Nition on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:48PM (#43095548)
Valve has given Facepunch the Source 2 license for S&Box[1] which will indirectly allow making games in Source 2. That's as far as they've gone towards releasing it as a game engine so far.

[1]https://sbox.game or https://store.steampowered.com/app/590830/sbox/

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by djmips on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:06PM (#43096286)
They've given out Source 2 to others AFAIK.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by jamesfinlayson on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:28PM (#43096470)
To who? It seemed like Source 2 licensing wasn't really on their radar.

https://vghe.net/source-2-engine.html#source-2-engine-games shows Valve almost exclusively.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by svelle on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:54PM (#43096697)
It was on their radar. There's an old slide deck where they talk about releasing source 2 for free akin to unreal. But they scrapped that idea and gave the code to facepunch/Garry instead, for s&box to fill that hole.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by jamesfinlayson on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @07:07PM (#43096829)
Ah okay - I wasn't really paying any attention when Source 2 first came out but looking back now it hasn't been used for a whole lot of games.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by djmips on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @08:53PM (#43097631)
Yes, OK I worked on Source 1 game (external to Valve) and before I left I was told that it was going to be moving to Source 2. I guess it left me with the impression that it was going to happen - apparently not? I followed up and it turns out that game moved over to UE.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by jamesfinlayson on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:13PM (#43098149)
Which game out of curiosity?
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Nition on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @07:51PM (#43097174)
I don't think this is correct, but happy to be proven wrong if you can find one.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Imustaskforhelp on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:02AM (#43099069)
Is sbox closed source ?
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Rohansi on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:49AM (#43099708)
Yes it is. The C# side of it is growing and that is easy enough to decompile though, if you're just curious. That's custom to S&box though and not a part of Source 2.
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