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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Just going to warn, this is a slow thread

[ollobrains]

is the game open or closed source, if it is open sourced we could attempt to recruit more hands to move it forward

[Retropunch]

is the game open or closed source, if it is open sourced we could attempt to recruit more hands to move it forward

It's close source and sort-of-worked-on so I don't think the dev will be opening it up just yet.

That said, If you're actually interested (and more importantly capable - no one likes 'ideas' people) then definitely get in touch and see if you can help!!

[Iduno]

I just noticed there's an option to do random perks for your captain now (possibly before now, but also now). Drop starting cash to zero and go to town on that button. Before, the only use I found for starting money was hiring a better pilot and science officer.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I liked buying random gear till I got binoculars and some sort of lamp

[ollobrains]

is the game open or closed source, if it is open sourced we could attempt to recruit more hands to move it forward

It's close source and sort-of-worked-on so I don't think the dev will be opening it up just yet.

That said, If you're actually interested (and more importantly capable - no one likes 'ideas' people) then definitely get in touch and see if you can help!!

given the dev hasn't really been working heavily on it, I would have thought open sourcing it would have been a smart move, given the lack of income probably if it was to be sold.  But that's just me

[sambojin]

It was openish source a while back, all in BASIC too. You could probably find an old version of the source if you looked.

Probably under ProspectorRL or RLProspector. I'm actually inclined to think you didn't even look, because it's here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2/code.google.com/rlprospector/source-archive.zip

2012 (0.2.4'ish) source code, but plenty of things worked back then. Or you could pretty please the hell out of Magellan, but don't be surprised if it's a polite "No", especially if you can't code.

[bloop_bleep]

In... BASIC?

That still, like, exists?

What is it coded in now?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Likely not literally BASIC but one of the newer basics. For instance when in highschool I was taught to program with visual basic.

[AzyWng]

Guess I'll try this game out some time. I've seen it but haven't really gotten into it so far. Will be here to ask questions and describe my experience.

[Iduno]

I've played this game for more hours than is reasonable, but I'll die every time there's a derelict with the possibility of loot.

I also once

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went to a planet with apparently an infinite number of robots spawning. Ship guns and a small army outfitted with alien blasters held them off for a while, but they never quit coming. What am I supposed to do with that?

[Retropunch]

It was openish source a while back, all in BASIC too. You could probably find an old version of the source if you looked.

Probably under ProspectorRL or RLProspector. I'm actually inclined to think you didn't even look, because it's here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2/code.google.com/rlprospector/source-archive.zip

2012 (0.2.4'ish) source code, but plenty of things worked back then. Or you could pretty please the hell out of Magellan, but don't be surprised if it's a polite "No", especially if you can't code.

I'm inclined to say that I knew all about that Sambojin, but didn't mention it as it's a) very old, and b) Magellan hasn't released the source of the current (or even vaugely current-ish) version which leads me to believe he might not want others to work on it atm.

The best way to go about this is to ask him directly, but as mentioned, if you can't code in the language it was written in there's probably not a great deal of point.

[Parsely]

PTW, wanna try this at some point.