Show HN: I revived a game I abandoned 5yo ago and released it for free today (opens in new tab)

If you want to protest the existence of Steam DRM by not ever using Steam that's certainly your prerogative, but it is worth noting that the DRM offered by Steam is entirely optional for the developers. Many games on Steam contain no DRM whatsoever and Steam is essentially just another way to download them.

Wow, never expected to see "Gaben Newell is a big-tech consumer-control suit" from anyone around here. For what it's worth I'm a huge fan of Steam, if you want to avoid it for personal reasons just go download a copy off the devs blog (linked here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=73043.0)

Cool, which game is it?

Thank you.

It's based on a private fork of this (discontinued) language: https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey

My idea was to release it for free and cross-promote my other game in it I'm currently working on. But don't know if it works out, because it's quite niche.

When I had it nearly finished I asked an artist if he could do a mock up. I liked it so much that I thought "Cool, I'll let him remake all the graphics quickly and release it then".

Then when I replaced the graphics I continously added new features as well and a popular video game musician (Chris Hülsbeck) joined the project. Now with so much talent working for the project I felt like the gamedesign wasn't a good match for it anymore, so I basically started over (I thought about this for a month or two, then finally throw away all source code and restarted without realizing that I have basically threw a nearly finished game away). This sounds pretty dumb in retrospective, but back then I just didn't saw it.

Avoiding Disney-MCU Lawsuit? xD

TBH: Pretty good :) I know it's not the best game ever, but it feels nice anyway...