It appears like Duelyst spent a number of years looking for a enterprise mannequin that labored, earlier than it lastly shut down for good again in 2020. Well now the entire thing – code and artwork – is open supply and obtainable to be used in others initiatives, royalty-free.
Counterplay Games introduced the transfer on this video, though the precise repository was made available via GitHub a few months ago:
The undertaking is made obtainable underneath a Creative Commons Zero license, which suggests all of the belongings are free to make use of for business and personal use. You might take Duelyst’s pretty sprite artwork and use it in your personal game, or you possibly can construct one thing solely new on prime of the existinv codebase.
The video above says that a number of groups are already working with the undertaking to make new issues. That’s attention-grabbing. It’s additionally all maybe just a little complicated should you noticed the information just a few weeks in the past that Duelyst 2 is now out on Steam. Duelyst 2, developed by a separate firm referred to as Dream Sloth Games, is successfully a re-release of the unique Duelyst with plans so as to add and revise the game. It’s the form of undertaking this open sourcing permits – though whether or not Dream Sloth bought a separate license from Counterplay to develop it, I do not know.
We favored Duelyst rather a lot for its canny combination of card play and turn-based techniques, and it deserved higher than its stumbling demise. Open sourcing the undertaking provides the chance for components of it to stay on – even when simply as a method for different builders to study the way it was made. (Counterplay already went on to make motion RPG Godfall, which Alice favored for very completely different causes.)