cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/534501
Relevevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36547801
Who does one get the hands on something like this? Just by accident or through an insider or is it possible to reverse engineer something like that? Sorry for the dumb question, I am a programming noob.
Most likely not legally. Possibly by luck, possibly through compromised systems or people.
Or the people who coded it left it on a hard drive that was auctioned off or obtained by whatever means.
Could also have been one of the devs who leaked it. Lots of us keep copies of the source for stuff we work on, so they may have figured it’s been long enough that no one would care if it leaked. However, I haven’t looked at it yet, but I imagine it would be most problematic legally if it contained proprietary 3rd party code. Leaking that could land someone in hot water.
I’m ignorant. Whats the significance of this? Can it be used for something?
It’s the core code for the game. In theory someone could use this to mod the game, or even expanded the game themselves.
The first Far Cry wasn’t developed by Ubisoft like the rest of the franchise. Does anyone know what prompted the franchise changing hands?
I cannot wait to dive into this when I get back on my PC. Far Cry isn’t a bad game at all, 18 years on. This is gonna be a gold mine to learn FPS development
Yes but only if you want to learn single threaded game development. IIRC CryEngine was incredible single threaded back theb.
Only 73MB?
