holy shit

a hundred grand 🤯

@endali EACH.

@endali another win for re-logic ​​

@endali I'm so glad the money I paid for Terraria this year is going toward this.

@endali based

@endali Incredibly common ReLogic W

@endali supporting free software projects is nice, but it would be nicer to use it for their newer games as well.

@raccoonformality @endali open source, cross-platform reimplimentation of Microsoft XNA

@endali Where did you find this? I checked their twitter but I can't see it there.
edit: found it on their terraria account: https://twitter.com/Terraria_Logic

@nitramiuz @endali Logged out version doesn't show any new posts for some reason, here's the post on Nitter: https://nitter.net/Terraria_Logic/status/1704227519027651016#m

@luna @nitramiuz yeah, i saw them post in on facebook initially

@endali damn. I should buy Terraria again I guess 😅.

@endali This. THis is how you game industry.

And it made me go buy Terraria too. Can't say no to a $12 game when it supports a good community player.

@endali I was reading this and was like weird I have never heard of FNA. Its developed by like one person and it looks like the 100k +12k per year is all going to Ethan Lee (https://github.com/sponsors/flibitijibibo) which seems like a huge amount. I wonder if there will be a big change in that project with that sort of cash all the sudden.

@endali can someone link the source for this plz?

@endali so I figured it out: Re-Logic are the developers of Terraria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraria) which is developed in Microsoft XNA that has recently been discontinued and FNA is an open source re-implementation of that engine! Makes sense that they would want to turbo charge the only FLOSS path to continue using the engine of their choice...

@endali ReLogic being absolutely awesome as usual!

@endali 100k each AND a 1000$ a month sponsor?

DAMN, talk about supporting the community

@liaizon @endali When you consider the average salary of software developers, it may not seem like much money for them (depending on their local cost of living). Of course it’s 100% more than most FOSS devs make though.

@skry @endali had to look up average salary of software developer and you are right, which is fucked up if you think about how much of the world needs to be doing other things that are not software...

@endali truly amazing to see how unity has unilaterally got all of gaming unified against them now, it's fantastic

@endali “Hey, your biggest competitor screwed up, here’s 100k on top of that.”

@endali You can even get this game #DRMFree at https://gog.com if you care about those things.

I'm currently working on a #nix derivation to get a better experience on #linux.

@SrEstegosaurio @endali I don’t plan to ever play it again as I’ve beat it once, but I just bought another copy to support them.

@endali I love this.

Karma is a bitch.

@shi @endali oh holy shit I read it as "100k split", that's even better

@syn @endali right?! 100k now and a thousand a month for both going forward.
Really hope more studios/pubs doing well financially follow suit, would be great if FOSS game engines got financial security to devote resources to on-boarding new people, R&D and maintenance.

@liaizon @endali Yeah. I think the phrase is something like, “some of the best minds of my generation spend their time optimizing advertising”. Some of the worst software jobs pay the most. It’s a problem.

@endali
@hachx0
Holyshit... this is amazing! Total fuckin win for FOSS and a kick in the crotch to corporate enshittification. I hope more bigger studios throw down support. Unity can go shrivel up and die.

@liaizon
> XNA that has recently been discontinued

FYI, xna hasn't been supported for a decade! But Terraria is even older than that...

@idbrii ah yeah I see that now. I hadnt heard of either before this thread so was curious why a studio would drop 100k on an random engine written by 1 person so thats why I had looked into it

@endali re-logic based

@endali It's all going a bit "Oracle buys MySQL" isn't it?