check the release post: release-post

Beyond the Iron Cycle BTIC is fully independent project by one entity.

It is very hard to work and publish such a project as a single entity. Allthough the programming itself - on its own - is already hard, but the harder challenge is to publish the game as independent as possible - and when you know the project, you will know why this has to be as independently published as possible.

After trying several options (github, gibtlab, bitbucket, Savannah, http-hosters, … - those are more/less: centralized/offering a lot of not needed features/unnecessarily complicated/hosted by toxic-entities like Microsoft/payed services) i think that lemmy is best platform and community to publish the project.

The code i wrote is really easy to check, if in doubt test this on some old laptop or raspberry pi - no strings attached.

Also i choose not to host this (very special) project continually, but until some (yet unknown) point in the future as limited downloads.

Until then, you will find the “release fountain”-post in the according community: https://lemmy.ml/c/btic

for some time i will answer some questions about the game here in the comment-section of this post.

thx, good luck and have fun!

Many things occur as a chance, but some chances may drift away in time and space and they will never come back.

[edit: typos, name hosting-options]

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    I’m gonna be honest, OP. The way you’re doing this is going to be a VERY tough sell to basically everyone.

    It’s already difficult to understand what your game even is, and then when you add the fact that it’s only available from time-limited download links embedded in obscure Lemmy threads… let’s just say I’d feel more comfortable downloading software from a URL I found scrawled on the wall of a gas station bathroom than whatever it is you’re doing.

    You say that the code you wrote is “really easy to check”, but where? It’s not hosted on a public repo, so the only way for people to audit your code is by downloading your “game”, which, again, is a tough sell when it could be literally anything.

    If it walks like malware and it talks like malware…

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      fry not sure meme, top text "not sure if malware, or actually" bottom text "masterpiece free&libre storydriven retrostyle-cyberpunk network-sandbox game written in posix shell and distributed via limewire.com limited-number-of-downloads tarball, also with purported binary distribution of alpine"

      as a lemmy.ml admin the only way i can remove this post on !indiegaming@lemmy.world is to ban the user with “remove content” checked, which i am for now refraining from doing because i think they might actually be sincere.

      however i strongly advise against running this, and therefore i removed links to it from lemmy.ml communities… while preserving one in their modlog (along with advice to OP) in case someone wants to audit it.