Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!
It’s funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I’ve been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small “break” and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I’ve always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂
I post my progress at [email protected] and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven’t managed to come up with a nice name yet.
Those are more like engine reimplementations rather than alternatives, which explains the fear of EA interference.
It’s a pity so many open source games go in that direction. I honestly wouldn’t mind even if the graphics were ugly placeholders or it took a minecraft-style pixelated approach.
The Sims.
It will never happen but one can dream
Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!
It’s funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I’ve been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small “break” and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I’ve always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂
I post my progress at [email protected] and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven’t managed to come up with a nice name yet.
There are actually a few projects doing exactly that, at least for the early entries;
Development pace for them is somewhat slow due apparent lack of interest - and a healthy dose of fear of EA interference - though.
Those are more like engine reimplementations rather than alternatives, which explains the fear of EA interference.
It’s a pity so many open source games go in that direction. I honestly wouldn’t mind even if the graphics were ugly placeholders or it took a minecraft-style pixelated approach.
EA are pretty smart here to kill any community interest in developing a free clone, by letting their end users mod the main game very easily.
Hard to compete with that