More about: Beyond the Iron Cycle
5mon 1d ago by lemmy.ml/u/ENNIX in indiegaming
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]
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...
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.