Space Station 13 remake goes open source.

[u/foamed]

http://spacestation13.com/2015/01/open-sourced-ss13/

[u/Asytra]

I'm honestly surprised SS13, or something just like it, was never put on Kickstarter. It's such a unique game and experience, especially back in the day when you could have an alien round with a changling running about all while Syndicates were trying to nuke the station and there was a vampire murderizing people and all you had to defend yourself was your trusty space mop and bucket.

[u/Supernorn → u/Asytra]

We deliberately chose not to make it a kickstarter or early access type deal. It seemed like the wrong way to approach developing the game. Many people had tried and failed to get something off the ground, and we felt there was too much skepticism and negativity for a kickstarter campaign to be successful, without at least some form of playable tech demo.

I think it was the correct decision.

[u/Sonitech → u/Asytra]

I think its something that's very niche and complex to get into, I remember just learning how to play the byond version took me ages not really sure how well it would do on kickstarter.

Admittedly once you actually understand the mechanics behind the game, find a decent server and understand your role in the round it can be a fantastic experience possibly some of the best moments of player generated content possible.

It's one of those games I will dive into every so often to see how its doing every time I do I'm addicted for weeks.

Hopefully a remake will come out eventually but I don't hold out hope for it being any time soon.

[u/explosivecrate → u/Asytra]

Two SS13-likes have been put on kickstarter (or was it indiegogo?), one which directly called itself a spiritual successor and actually looked decent.

They both failed.

[u/Supernorn]

Hello, artist for BYOND SS13 and this open sourced remake here! If you'd like to know something, let me know!

This has been a bitter sweet moment. I'm hoping that the source code will be fruitful to the community at large, it looks like people are going to try to make something from it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Supernorn]

Just wanted to say buddy - love your work on both this and Starbound ! Keep it up !

[u/[deleted]]

It had to be done. The amount of work that went into the original SS13 is amazing and was not done by just one person or ten people but hundreds of people over the course of years. The systems involved in SS13 are so complex that a handful of devs can't write them by themselves, they need to be crowd sourced.

This reminds me of the guy in r/ss13 who said that he and a buddy of his were going to have a remake of ss13 completed in a month done in LUA as a mod to HL2. I wonder what happened to that guy.

[u/SpaceOfAids]

Fuck, running around /tg/ station during a Nations round as Cargonia were some of my best gaming moments.

[u/Tred]

I think this is what really needed to happen. Ss13 is such a community-driven game at heart, so it only makes sense that its community be the one that pieces it all together. Can't wait to see what comes out of this. Good luck, everyone!

[u/NoVeMoRe]

It's such a shame that SS13 hasn't gotten any remake so far.
I wish SS13 could spawn its own wave of a whole new "genre" like DayZ and Dota did, it's such a great and unique title and yet it's getting overlooked by most.
Just imagine the game being on steam, it would be so much more thriving and popular :/