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Hi there, i am now a retro indie game developer for a long time (>15 years). Beside other things i developed a real-time browser game, a card game and more. I did it all without a contracts to publishers (which is pretty hard - and naturally without any monetary payoff).

For the last 6 years i worked on a fully libre-open-source textbased, sandbox-style, storydriven, retro-style cyberpunk network-sandbox game.

The game is text-based, so... there is no much to show, but i post a screeny below(https://retrolemmy.com/pictrs/image/c6442b29-988d-432f-8a9b-91706540aea5.png)

The game is ready for deployment and a real gem (i am very proud of it!). It just depends linux and some super-basic command-line tools.

It is 100% libre-open-source and very cleanly written and it has a tranparent build-system (means: the user builds an chroot-app on his/her computer) - which makes as safe, as your system. It runs in a isolated cgroup-enviroment via bwrap. It should build on any linux distro and run "on a toaster" (sbc is enough)

To host this, a git repo would be the best solution. (A static html-page would be enough for that - check the style of the suckless static git-pages: https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html)

BUT... i have no phone (and i don't intend to get one) -> it looks like, that it is impossible to host a git repo without a phone.

I am searching for a hosting solution, without the need to have a phone.

Or better: I search for a partner that would host this project with me. The project itselft is (naturally) free of charge and libre-open-source. Could be part of a git-page-presence or a simple static html-subdomain.

I really think that this is a really cool underdog indie game which will bring some prestige to the hosting partner.

Pls. tell me your thoughts and suggestions.

PM me if you have interest in a cooperation.

thx in advance

edit: SOLVED (thx to /u/smeg@feddit.uk)

solution: https://codeberg.org/ennix/Jailbreak-Katana

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[–] Ennix@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just for the history record:

Initially i tryed to publish this as a binary-redistribution, which is generally possible, if i link the according sources (i did [compare arch-linux pkg-builds]), but that solution seemed controversial - so ... i wrote a general, system-independent toolkit for local building (script) 100% open source and non-binary. Deployment size <600kB.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is the best place to post this, since this is more of an information community for RetroLemmy, and there won't be too many people outside of RetroLemmy seeing this. But I wish you good luck with your game and search for a git repo!

[–] Ennix@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thx, the users in c/linux were very helpful and it's all up and in open testing now: https://codeberg.org/ennix/Jailbreak-Katana

When the code is considered stable i will try to find the right places for announcements.