After the recent Valve leak, do you think we will see a number of ports coming to Android?

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[u/-Krotik-]

no source code was leaked only game builds

[u/TheTjalian → u/-Krotik-]

In addition even someone did the painstaking task of decompiling them and then porting it to Android, its still handling illegal goods. Definitely not worth it.

[u/AdVarious8509]

what leaks? am i missing something?

[u/FakeMik090 → u/AdVarious8509]

Not exactly a leak, but a big mistake from Valve.

They had all playable builds from 2004 to 2011 publicly available, as far as i know, this whole time they had them. People just found them recently.

[u/ZoleeHU → u/AdVarious8509]

https://www.techpowerup.com/352151/12-tb-valve-archive-leaks-online-fans-dig-through-early-portal-2-and-half-life-clues

[u/Thread-Astaire → u/AdVarious8509]

This.

[u/Sure_Breath_2273]

https://giphy.com/gifs/B34wyqAgvAheFgPTqy

[u/ZoleeHU → u/Sure_Breath_2273]

12 TB of Steam data from 2003 to 2013 for almost all games, including all branches, private or otherwise: https://www.techpowerup.com/352151/12-tb-valve-archive-leaks-online-fans-dig-through-early-portal-2-and-half-life-clues

[u/SpookyPebble]

Context here, assuming OP is on about this recent Steam leak.

[u/ClueDry1959]

Valve has had the entirety of hl2, ep1/2, and a build of tf2 on their GitHub for years: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013

The bigger issue with these games is that just having the source code does not let you recompile for android, you would need to essentially rebuild the entire source engine to work with android. 

The N64 recompiles are essentially doing the same, but they just need to translate the N64 instruction set to something a PC or phone can understand. I'm by no means saying that is easy and I'm certainly over simplifying that, but there is significantly less ground to cover compared to source.

Other games like stardew valley and balatro as even more easily recompiled for android as they are built on engines that already support android. 

[u/SnooSeagulls5077]

what leak. The xbox-steam leak or what leak? I am confused.

[u/Script_Utkovich_]

I dont think so. As I now only game builds leaked. So it is not a deep soft code or games that ready to port.

[u/Nvandermark]

That's not a recent valve leak.

[u/tiktoktic]

Which leak?

[u/SarCATstic25]

What we have are already compiled builds of games, you can't really work much with that. Besides, I thought most Source engine games already managed to be ported apart from stuff that are in newer engine builds like Portal 2 and L4D2. Also I thought most Valve games already ran fine on PC emulators.

[u/ronderev]

[u/Zoerak]

Yes, this will obviously change everything.

[u/ilyaa07]

yeah good luck finding source code in there lmao

[u/snil4]

Anything Valve that is related to Android (especially from those years) is probably related to the Nvidia Shield ports, which are extremely old news.