LF2 Author Marti Wong "Crowdfunding" for LF2 Remastered

[lampuiho]

He is currently selling new stance and animation in the form of cryptocurrency to fund his project for the remastered version of LF2.

Also, he is asking people to submit their videos of LF2 gameplay footage for him to put together a trailer of sort and auction it with 20% of the proceeding going to charity and another half of it going back to the participants who submitted their videos.

If you have spare cash or time to spend, and would like to support the remaster. Please take a look.

You can read more here: https://lf2.net/10000/

[Gad]

It's not gonna work. 10k supporters it's way waaaay out of league.

[Rellotscrewdriver]

I don't think we even have more than 1000 members

[MH-Razen]

Uoh..... that's exciting. Quite curious how it's gonna turn out. Thanks for posting it here, would never have found it ^^

[sadbhav]

It definitely sounds interesting. I'm definitely up for supporting even though I haven't played the game in years

[Zelphir]

I agree on the point, that the crypto stuff will not work out. I am considering to support the project, but hesitating: Why should I support another closed source project? If I only imagine, where we could be in terms of improving and further developing, with an open sourced LF2 or even free software licensed LF2 ... It is a sad fact, that keeping LF2 closed source all these years slowed modification down to a crawl comparatively and hurt the whole community.

If we are honest, we can admit this remastering will not be any commercial success. It is not like hordes of people will appear, dying to buy a remastered version or assets of it.

Why do not they make something public and freedom respecting for the community now, considering LF2 has already lost a lot of players over the years?

If this was some open source or even free software project, I would be immediately up for it and supporting it. As it stands now, I have a hunch, that it will be another closed source project, which will be forgotten over time, because there has not been a single word about making something open or even freedom respecting. It seems to me, that the creators of LF2 have still not come to terms with the fact, that keeping LF2 closed source hurts its community and that community involvement works best with transparency.

[tyt2y3]

I agree on the point, that the crypto stuff will not work out. I am considering to support the project, but hesitating: Why should I support another closed source project? If I only imagine, where we could be in terms of improving and further developing, with an open sourced LF2 or even free software licensed LF2 ... It is a sad fact, that keeping LF2 closed source all these years slowed modification down to a crawl comparatively and hurt the whole community.

If we are honest, we can admit this remastering will not be any commercial success. It is not like hordes of people will appear, dying to buy a remastered version or assets of it.

Why do not they make something public and freedom respecting for the community now, considering LF2 has already lost a lot of players over the years?

If this was some open source or even free software project, I would be immediately up for it and supporting it. As it stands now, I have a hunch, that it will be another closed source project, which will be forgotten over time, because there has not been a single word about making something open or even freedom respecting. It seems to me, that the creators of LF2 have still not come to terms with the fact, that keeping LF2 closed source hurts its community and that community involvement works best with transparency.

If you are looking for an open source LF2, perhaps the closest thing is https://github.com/Project-F/F.LF
We have been doing it for quite some years until now.

[blow_fly98]

Seems the "code" was sold as an NFT, which you could probably interpret as more concrete evidence of the intention to never open-source LF2.

[A-Man]

Frankly, I don't mind. I would imagine whoever bought it was interested in its aesthetic/historical value than the source code itself. And it's helping Marti, so that's good it was sold.

For the source, there is already a pretty decent open source rewrite of LF2: https://github.com/Project-F/F.LF

It's got a cherry on top: works on browser.