Pirated video games SOURCE CODE (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only for PC maybe PS, XBox or mobile too, and share it. I just wanted to see some code samples of games or their engines, maybe I get hooked into video game design. Shout out to Valve for sharing a lot about the creation of Half Life 1

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

UE is open source as in the source code is available to anyone. But the license isn’t very open.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-github

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Right, but it's best to call that "source available" so the pedants don't crucify you 🙄

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Yes there is indeed a difference, but for us it makes little to no difference. In the end what matters is that we have it without having to reverse engineer it, which is a slow and laborious process (even when you do it with dirty methods).