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minus-square@reksas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink5•3 months agoThere should be a platform just for open source games
minus-square@Kissaki@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoLet’s call it OG for Open source Games.
minus-square@Colloidal@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoSomething with a Flat structure, that acts as a hub for these projects. We could call it Flathub! ;)
minus-squareOmegalinkfedilink1•3 months agoOpen source games are tagged as open source, which makes it very easy to discover Though there is no harm in having a browser for foss games we already have a load of people using itch.io for that exact purpose
There should be a platform just for open source games
Let’s call it OG for Open source Games.
Something with a Flat structure, that acts as a hub for these projects. We could call it Flathub! ;)
itch.io works good enough
Does it? For finding only open source games?
Open source games are tagged as open source, which makes it very easy to discover
Though there is no harm in having a browser for foss games we already have a load of people using itch.io for that exact purpose