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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]

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

fry not sure meme, top text "not sure if malware, or actually" bottom text "masterpiece free&libre storydrivenretrostyle-cyberpunk network-sandbox gamewritten in posix shell and distributed vialimewire.com limited-number-of-downloadstarball, also with purported binary distribution of alpine"

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.