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There was a fear that the game being only playable with 3rd party mods, and FOSS being famous for forking, the overall project would die if the overworked single individual 3rd party devs were smacked with having to work against uncountable forked versions the 3rd party devs may have never seen or even have hardware to run (like a port to a phone maybe). A 2 dev sized project where nobody steps up to help the original dev for some decades doesn't benefit much from FOSS despite in theory 'it could have happened'.

#Games like orbiter for mac license

A 100 dev sized project benefits greatly if a 10 dev company releases it under a FOSS license and 500 people step forward to help. The 3rd party addons were often FOSS licensed and despite much noise about the glories of FOSS, never got much public help, typically. The base game is workable but it really depends on 3rd party addons to do your planning and calculations and have somewhere to take off from and something to fly and somewhere to fly to. (edited: to emphasize, I've seen a lot and read a lot and played a lot, but am not an authoritative member of the orbiter community, none of this is private nor it is official, and its greatly summarized) I've been playing around with Orbiter since it was new (and back then the hardware reqs to run were very expensive, not so much today). I am really happy to see this game become open source. I probably also spent days of my life browsing orbithangar for the coolest new vehicles.Īt some point I discovered Kerbal Space Program and eventually got older and had less time for Space Sims altogether, but Orbiter (especially the 2010P1 version) will remain closest to my heart.

#Games like orbiter for mac mods

Dan's Orbiterpage and his world class mods for the game (including the excellent sound mod) really made this game (or sim, whatever you call it) shine. I flew to mars and back, landed on the moon, programmed flight computers (sometime catastrophically wrong), docked so many different vehicles in orbit and generally had the time of my life in this game. I wish I had some numbers but I am certain that I played hundreds of hours playing this game, installing countless mods, learning orbital dynamics, spaceflight history, and so much more. I first discovered this game back in school at around 2010-2011 and it quickly turned into one of the defining games of my childhood.

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