Unturned is a name many don’t remember, but it was basically one of the first online indie games to ever release and become popular. It has been a long while since the game exists, primarily being created in Roblox and then ported outside of it. It is crazy how a game made in what many consider to be a walled garden ended up becoming popular outside of it, because Roblox’s business model often tries to take advantage of developer to make free content for big corps. Unturned is the story of how a young person managed to escape Roblox and make something quite cool.
Unturned is FOSS
Now with all of the free tools at our disposal, people can make more mods for Unturned, they can even learn how to make a different game out of it too. It is cool that the developer behind Unturned decided to do something like this in the first place, because one would think an indie developer wouldn’t try to reveal the formula to their secrets, but here they are. With proper crediting, people can pretty much do whatever they want with the code, even an entirely new game because it is very scalable if you ask me.
There has been a huge demand for cooperative games, so online survival games have a chance to thrive once again in this competitive gaming landscape. I’m sure that many of you reading this have played Unturned, and despite it being rather clunky it is definitely an impressive feat achieved by only one person without enough resources to do so. We need more love behind games so we can get better quality on what we can play. Thanks to this contribution, the open source community will grow stronger and learn to do some things better, even improving upon what already exists.
