And if so, what tactics did they use? Pester the devs? Crowdfunding to buy the rights to the game from the devs? Something else?
Edit: I’m more looking for instances of the actual original game being open-sourced through fan efforts or outright purchase, like how Blender was originally open-sourced as a result of a crowdfunding campaign. The open-source rewrites of games are awesome, but I don’t have the skills to build a relatively elaborate game on my own. It’s also not a popular game, more niche, really, so I’m just wondering what are the possibilities.
One that I’m aware of is Re-Volt. The source code for both the base game and some addons can be found here.
There was another one that I remember using years ago but I can’t find it anymore. It was for another racing game called 4x4 Evo. There is the 4x4 Evolution Revival project but it’s not the one I used and there doesn’t seem to be any source code available.
holy shit, very cool to learn about re-volt! i loved playing that game with my brother on n64
Thank you!