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Tactical card battler Duelyst is now completely open sourceCode and art, royalty-free
Code and art, royalty-free
It feels likeDuelystspent several years trying to find a business model that worked, before itfinally shut down for good back in 2020. Well now the whole thing - code and art - is open source and available for use in others projects, royalty-free.
Counterplay Games announced the move in this video, although the actual repositorywas made available via GitHub a few months ago:
Duelyst - Open Source AnnouncementWatch on YouTube
Duelyst - Open Source Announcement
The project is made available under a Creative Commons Zero license, which means all the assets are free to use for commercial and private use. You could take Duelyst’s lovely sprite art and use it in your own game, or you could build something entirely new on top of the existinv codebase.
We liked Duelyst a lot forits canny mixture of card play and turn-based tactics, and it deserved better than its stumbling demise. Open sourcing the project offers the opportunity for parts of it to live on - even if just as a way for other developers to learn how it was made. (Counterplay already went on to make action RPGGodfall, which Aliceliked for very different reasons.)
